- I would like every one to share experience on how u plan to proceed with research and academics , during and after these pandemic Covid 19 times.
- Also comment about how things will shape up in future.
- Any innovative ideas adapted in university or college level.
- Any suggestion for better outputs and engagements?
- Any suggestions on how to assess students, specially practical exams??
Aman Chowdhry , The impact is huge. the regular teaching in ward and OPD is impossible. The classes are held in our hospital in the Microsoft teams app, but it is limited to theory discussions. The examination part, which is vital for medical personnel is lost. This will eventually lead to loss of these skills, which already are becoming more and more ignored and forgotten
Aman Chowdhry The situation will never be the same. This pandemic helped us to prioritize our goals and shed the light on the importance of investments on the health care systems. On an academic level, many universities continued to deliver lectures on different online platforms. However, the clinical education for medical students was affected.
The effect is highly significant. The current pandemic slows the academic processc, affecting both the instructors and the students. Currently, we adapted online teaching to deliver only the theoretical part of the classes. Since practical sessions, can not be performed online, so we defer them till resuming to normal life. Although this had a great impact on all students, final year medical students, who are expected to graduate this summer, appeared to be affected the most.
One great thing about this time is the transition from traditional teaching to online teaching and we appreciate the technology which make it possible, however, infrastructure requires more improvement. At country level, the MOHESR in Iraq will consider the online teaching and will sponsor its improvements.
Although it is challenging, we are making progress at academic level. At research level, almost all research are on hold now and hope it will back to normal soon and may we face shortage in funding.
https://brocku.ca/brock-news/2020/03/researchers-adapt-to-covid-19-disruptions-in-their-work/
https://www.neuro-central.com/the-covid-19-pandemic-and-the-research-lab/
Aman Chowdhry e-phase of learning has started now with full force. Technology shift from whiteboard/ppt to ZOOM/Webex. But facing the problem with audience that some people they are not mature enough to be as student irrespective of factwhether they are UG or PG. Its easy for them to put instructor on mute and camera On and watch a movie/ play games on alternate screen. will Figure out some remedy to this soon. My suggestion is eclasses for lecture and disscussions and practicals has to be in education centre. this way we can increase the practical based learning since students are devoid of that and will genrate more interset.
Dear dr. Aman Chowdhry
Very nice discussion.
I think that it withh positively affected on research. Many research papers about COVID-19 now.
Best regards
Pranav Ish I think in Indian perspective where students are stranded or sent back home where the are compromised in connectivity or laptops or phone. loads of sensitisation also missing n needs to be upgraded.
Mohamed Badie Ahmed Pranav Ish u r correct on front of practical patient training is troubled.
Bita Jamshidi awesome sharing, gonna use them often
Hitesh Kumar anything about about open acesss
Nasser Said Gomaa Abdelrasheed I guess RG is doing wonders
Dear Dr. Aman Chowdhry
Best Contribution.
Best regards
Dear dr. Bita Jamshidi
I agree with you.
Good contribution
It is challenging to conduct laboratory studies. It might be even difficult to get IRB approval for a study targeting COVID-19. It depends on where are you located etc.
Naturally, the main concern is about covid19 so biological, medical, chemistry are the top now and there is funds for this kind of research. You can see this like a high trend around covid19 and you can follow it from your background area. Besides, after covid19 there will be available a lot of data to analyze and many kind of studies will be conducted i.e. Economics, Social, Health so you can look for collaboration to do multidisciplinary projects.
I just started on a research project with Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) - and now people are apprehensive to allow online interaction to get data - in the past, we are expected to do the fieldwork onsite.
I have also conducted an online-focused group study via Whatsapp and telegram - and it embodied a rich interaction and immediacy of the reaction by the participants. I guess some doors are closed (field-research), other doors are opened; it just a matter of us turning the knob.
The switch to online learning has pushed many frontiers; it also surfaced many issues such as the expectation of learning (initial) that led to many disappointments and apprehension, and meta-learning (the learning of learning). Simple things like instructions (understanding the instructions) is an issue for the younger generations - there needs to rethink the whole concept of learning and online learning.
This time, we are teaching during a war. Every commander who has gone through the military knows that it is adaption during the war; not learning. We learn during peacetime. The complacency of some ministries of educations, thinking that time, is on their side, meaning not learning from the SARs and the H1N1 episodes pay the price now and scrambling to the drawing board. It is useless to cry over spilled milk but to embark forward and not to wholesale implementations from others blindly.
Always think of contingencies - what if the Internet is also down? What if there is an AI-Virus? Then how does learning look like? I am reading "Deep Space Warfare" by James C. Wright - a very interesting scenario-planning for space warfare where there needs a "UNITED-NATION" - all nations banding together to counter unknown forces from outer space, set me thinking of the different possibilities of learning under different circumstances. I guess it is time for academics to think like the militaries - to prepare for the learning warfares ahead.
This is an interesting research topic, I think in Nigeria where primitive way of teaching and researching is still order of the day, this pandemic as open the eyes of academics and government that teaching is beyond the four wall, this pandemic as brought new ideas of teaching and learning in Nigeria. Online teaching was just for some caste of people in Nigeria before, now this lock down as brought idea of using zoom, teaching on radio, television and so on. I think after this pandemic Nigerian government and researcher will look for alternative ways of teaching and learning outside sitting students for hours in a class.
Maria José Camacho-Miñano awesome compilation ... my only concern is: what about changes in ethical clearances .. are we planning to change the methodology as most of it will be non contact now??
Idowu Babatunde Toheeb is there discrimination is teaching??? like u said only few ppl get access?
Wai Keong Mak thats a great post by u. I like the innovation you trying. keep us updated about insight of students as well.
Josimar Chire yup we expect great Multiple , Multidisciplinary Research
Samy A. Azer any personal experience?
Not really discrimination, in Nigeria we've public and private schools and colleges which are of different quality based on their fees, so you enjoy more quality education if you are ready to pay. Basic and secondary public schools are nothing to write home about in quality in term of infrastructures, teaching learning materials and the likes only public higher educational institutions can boost of quality education than private counterpart.
Aman, yes...I think ethics clearence processes will have to be adapted for the purpose of social disdancing....
Idowu Babatunde Toheeb its every where the same, economic disparity rules the nations.
Karel Prins india has infection spread protocols but they need to be upgraded. anything about ur country?
Aman Chowdhry the type of quality education here is alarming teachers and lecturers are under paid, no motivation from both students and teachers, crime and fraud is the order of the day, because citizens thinks going to school to study is a waste of precious time and prefer to involved theirselves in fraudulent practices. I think this pandemic is a wake up call for both government and educational stakeholders to revisit the educational sector and improve the quality of education beyond reasonable doubt.
Many researchers are changing their research programs- For example, difficulties to continue lab work, or giving priority to COVID-19 research
This is a great question and is being asked globally as we look at paradigmatic shifts in the short term and possibly longer. Already we have seen a proliferation of survey research at our institutions IRB. While face to face and observational studies had to be resubmitted, survey research did not and many of the other projects have started the modification process toward that end.
I have been part of a vanguard of researchers trying to reconceptualize a number of research elements. To that end, I am not sure if this fits your situation, but if it does or if you know of someone that is looking for an outlet for rapid online onboarding in eLearning there is a call for abstracts by May 30th that is part of this paradigm shift. -jd https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rapid-response-elearning-scholarship-j-d-wallace/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342683667_Strengthening_health_care_research_and_academics_during_and_after_COVID19_pandemic-_an_Indian_perspective/stats
Covid has impacted research at a local, state, national, and global level. Regulatory bodies have taken this into consideration and have taken several measures in the respective countries - this could be used for getting over the hurdles due to Covid.
COVID-19 greatly affected research. Due to restrictions, data collection is delayed. Researchers are trying to collect data online where possible. Because of the isolation from physical workplace, colleagues, the community, their emotional wellbeing is impacted and it decreases their motivation to study.