New world order for the future: Virtual e-education!

Although students as well as the teachers are not satisfied with the virtual e-education, until the COVID-19 is completely controlled and educational institutions can open, virtual education is the way to go.

Even for the future, the educational curricula will be modified to have major part of the the education as e-education with virtual classes, and conferences.

It is an interesting question. The answer is as varied as the System and it many contexts. We already and historically have had online only and hybrid education for years in tertiary education. Certain subjects require hands on at least in part. The vet sector and particularly trades must have hands on, not just in work place training but in class training.

In terms of children and young people there are serious and alarming reports of mental health issues being up 100% to 300%. This rise includes self harm and suicide. So what do we value? Can we manage a technology only platform, probably not? Is it healthy, probably not; is it efficient, probably not; is it effective, probably not. Children and young people learn from their physical environment which includes not just hands on activities, but also peers, body language, facial expression & tone. These things are not conveyed accurately online ever.

The covid influence drove online expansion, but it was the only option, at the time. Now we have data on transmission rates, vulnerable populations and many vaccines, it cannot be said for online to be the only safe option. We now can reflect on data re the above mental health issues, which permeate broader society not just children and young people. So it can be said that online for this cohort is not even a safe option. Other factors may impact thorough assessments that are not considered here.

One thing that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought into focus is the paramount importance of social contaxts and their role in school education.

While many forms of teaching can be carried out remotely, I think schools should increasingly focus on ways to scaffold meaningful social interaction between students, and between the teacher and students. This could be done via instructional design, via changes or adjustments in the physical school environment and evne have influence on national school curricula.

Remote teaching could be utilized every now and then, but I am highly sceptical about it ever becoming the primary form of teaching in K-12.

I think it will be both on line and face-face leaning and teaching. In this respect, the next years curriculum should include special courses about the strategies of learning and teaching virtually. i think students and teachers should be ready for this kind of circumstances as the COVID 19 pandemic. it is high time for the curriculum designers, educators, and pedagogues, they reorganize everything. ا

Now the vaccination has carried out against COVID-19, we can hope soon situation will be normal.

I think a hybrid format will be the way of the future, with a tweak on delivering a more relational online education.

Thank you very much for your answers. I suppose that more researchers will answer. Today I have asked students to answer the same question and to write an essay on this theme. The essays are very interesting and vary different, but the most common answer is "to teach through the games, creatively and actively, digitally"' only some students answer about "hybrid" teaching' or face-to face teaching. Waiting for more answers.

It all depends on your discipline. I think there is much to learn from human interaction in a proximal space to one another. For example, how do you experience what it means to serve - as in service learning, if you are not out there serving the “other” and appreciating the human impact of this interaction.

Dear Yuliya Stavissky ,

My wish is that it doesn't change anything, that it stays as it was before.

Perhaps being more realistic and under influence of my natural pragmatism, I have to admit that I think we have something hybrid between face-to-face classes and some remote online classes.

However, I also think that it will have nothing to do with traditional way of distance learning before pandemic.

I think that primary and secondary schools should be different. In my view, the hybrid model should only be applied to high school and undergraduate students. Children really need social interaction for their training.

Thanks for the discussion, I hope I contributed.

Regards,

Prof. Wiltgen

Good morning,

I guess it will depend on the situation, if all will be vaccinated then I think there is a possibility for face to face classes again just like the usual. But even is the schools and universities are ready, we need to consider the parents and guardians of the students especially in the basic education. We cannot control their fears and opinions on safety some will always prefer home school or the modular set up until they are convinced that is really safe. So maybe some will still be hybrid, modular and face to face.

As for the teachers, it depends on the field of specialization, for the technical and practical subjects that needs hand on experience they would prefer face to face but for those subjects that can be put into modules maybe they would still prefer this especially those tenured faculty who are near retirement with underlying conditions.

Thanks

This is a really hot topic of the day in all levels of education around the globe. Most would agree in particular in technical domains that in-class teaching (face-2-face) cannot be substituted with the remote//online teaching. Heavy and core burdens of engineering subjects should be in-class based teaching for undergrad. With the vaccines, more or less our normal in-class will be in practice, but there will be some considerable changes with HyFlex applications.

On the other hand, if we look the issue from another angle, covid19 one way the other enforced and motivated us (educators) to gain some new skills and qualifications not only in technical aspects but also in communication aspects. That was good and would be useful in the future.

In my opinion, our perception, approach, and belief in traditional in-class education and our students or in other words, our end service users have changed to some degree. From now on, HyFlex will be there and its application will keep growing. Already, many universities in the west (e.g. USA) are moving towards recording lectures from all class to enable and motivate students to some extend to follow their courses remotely. We can anticipate that this is where we are moving.

For our scientific collaboration and exchanges: many scientific conferences will likely be facilitated using zoom, online webinar, or such technologies to reduce travel time, costs, etc. De facto, virtual meetings and talks can never substitute physical meetings and coffee break talks, where real collaborations take place. This is the reality, I think.

Dear Dr. Stavissky!

You raised a significant issue. I focus on higher education, arguing the the system will become more agile, flexible with more options for remote, online interactive research and study:

1) Bajaba, S., Mandurah, K. & Yamin, M. A framework for pandemic compliant higher education national system. Int. j. inf. tecnol. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41870-021-00629-7 Open access:

Article A framework for pandemic compliant higher education national system

2) A case-study: Gupta, S.K., Sengupta, N. Webinar as the Future Educational Tool in Higher Education of India: A Survey-Based Study. Tech Know Learn (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-021-09493-7 Open access:

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3) Aneela Maqsood et al. (2021). The paradigm shift for educational system continuance in the advent of COVID-19 pandemic: Mental health challenges and reflections, Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, Volume 2, November 2021, Open access:

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This is a good question. I think blended learning is the way to go.

This is a good question. I think blended learning is the way to go.

I want to believe despite the danger of the covid 19 pandemic on humanity, economy and education it has also brought about a change in the way of teaching and learning in Nigeria.

Before the pandemic issue, Nigeria's educational institution most of them were using old system of face-to-face interaction method of teaching and learning. But after the period, many instructors changed to a more digital method using google class, zoom and other digital ways to teach. Likewise, student tend to have more chance of learning through their computers or tabs than in the olden days paper materials.

I'm agree with Aliyu Abubakar Kware

Thank you very much. Aliyu Abubakar Kware, in Israel the same transformation happends. From face to face traditional methods to the transition to the hybrid one: digital mixed with traditional. It is very interesting to observe this process and try to influence. Thank you very much. Waiting for more answers.

I feel that the teaching learning process will be highly supported by the current instructional technology more than before COVID 19.

Yuliya S. El futuro de la enseñanza- aprendizaje, será muy probablemente combinado: virtual y presencial. Habrá diferencias en cuanto a los grupos etarios: es posible que a edades tempranas hasta los 7 años, se establezca lo presencial, luego de acuerdo a las etapas del crecimiento y desarrollo, se ira utilizando variedad en lo que a técnicas se refiere, numero de estudiantes por clase, apoyo de los padres, disponibilidad de materiales didácticos, manejo de la tecnología, bibliotecas virtuales. Innovar grupos de apoyo de los alumnos mas avanzados, trabajo de campo, incorporar la música semi clásica en ambientes semicerrados. Le deseo exito en su investigación.

Dear Yuliya Stavissky , with many doubts and few certainties, I would like to answer you. Consider that inequalities, over the past year, have grown exponentially. Digital injustice puts a strain on the poorest, who are pushed further away from the nuclei where information, culture and education circulate. Considering this situation, for the majority of the poor, without access to computers and smart phones, there will be no education. They will not access remote education, because they do not have the technological conditions to do so. If the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic is not completely dominated, we will have instituted a world in which not all the human beings that inhabit it will fit. What will they do to include the Haredim in Israel? So, I'm not sure that the solution will be through digital media. It may signal as an alternative for sectors of the population, but it will not be inclusive, egalitarian and democratic. It is very certain that, without face-to-face education, we will march many steps backwards. We will miss opportunities for literacy, cultural leveling, access to knowledge and universal sciences - achievements of humanity. Everything, in short, will be contributing to the cultural collapse and will take us in an uncivilized 'looping' until the deconstruction of our educational system. What does this distance us, therefore, from barbarism? Finally, we will have to reorganize the face-to-face school, as the models and digital means of remote education do not reach everyone. If we look only at the enchanted digital world, we will leave millions / billions of precious lives out of cultural society, educated and educated in all of science. We will have populations without literacy, without opportunities, without jobs and without food, depending on the portion if she continued in remote education and became the lady of the world.

It will turn some heads into home-based learning and education while other, if not most of the educators and planners may revert to traditional. Lucky are those who will shift, and has the capability to do so, into more technology involved classroom.

The teacher must be able to use technology in teaching process, now teaching with digital is a must. thus a teacher support students by giving motivation.

Thank you very much for your answers

Teachers, for some time now, have already been incorporating digital technologies but to think that you could go fully digital is a concerning one. A financial concern was already raised by Claudio Jose Bertazzo in the inequality it would bring with it and therefore unacceptable and inequitable. Learning for most children still needs to be play-based in that they need opportunity for authentic, hands-on experiences to enable them to connect with what they are learning and be able to assimilate it into what they already know. Children have to have a wide variety of learning experiences that have them physically interacting with others. Research shows that younger children do not naturally makes the links needed to synthesise what they are learning to enable them to progress well because of it. Many younger children do not have the skills to use a computer to actually benefit from that type of learning.

Another aspect in our society today is to recognise the many children that are now dealing with, at least, some trauma and some much trauma in their lives and this has a great effect on the brain the ability to learn. I have seen this increase a lot over the last 10 years and now a teacher needs to be trauma-informed in their practice. For some children, school is their safe haven and need to have that scape from the trauma they are experiencing in their day-to-day lives.

I am sure there are many factors that would need to be considered before pushing this agenda such as upskilling teachers to deliver in such a way as suggested by Bahar Bahar.

LOTS TO CONSIDER…especially if you are not a full-time teacher delivering learning on a daily basis then you should spend time in some classrooms and just see what great learning is already happening.

Thank you very much. Your answer is very significant

As a teacher, I feel that there has been a paradigm shift in education over the last year. In this multi-modal information age of multi-literacies there is obviously a need to digitally educate young people. However, the role of the traditional teacher has changed too with the need for more collaborative teaching between stakeholders - parents and teachers. My biggest concern is for learners with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities ( SEND). These learners need very close attention by highly trained professionals. A complete move online would seriously regress the advances made in this field over the last couple of decades.

Good day!

I think after the pandemic covid-19, our educational system will be more dynamic in the ways of teaching. The good thing about during the pandemic situation, we learned the different ways in teaching and learning online - different methods and pedagogies.

Looking to the future, I believe that most of the educational institutions can be able to conduct different learning modalities and teaching techniques for we have already the knowledge on teaching face-to-face and online.

I hope that it answer the question.

Regards

Mr Raymundo

I am agree with Dr. Claudio José

I think after the pandemic ,teaching will be more flexible in terms of mode delivery. Online teaching and learning may be adopted to support the traditional face to face.

I think about the future of school education after Covid-19, for teaching teacher use variety cooperative learning model , variety of methods and strategies and variety of media, face to face and combine with e-leaning.

for studying combine face to face and e learning it can increase students interest to learn.

Hi Yuliya,

This is one of the questions I am presenting in my research.

As I continue to gather research, two of the major points reflected are the adaptation process and diffusion of innovation. This requires for both professional entities and student to accustom to the new changes. Technology is slowly being integrated in education from all different perspectives by so creating a habit and stimulation that may be almost doomed to remove at this point. Many children have been found to benefit from using technology as well as professionals. I believe technology is a tool we should get more used to seeing from this point forward in education.

Good question!

Best,

Sinai Benitez-EdPsy

I believe that asynchronous learning is definitely in our future. The transition as difficult as it may have been, is pretty much implemented since the first shutdown.

There is a learning curve that will continue as long as technology lives. IT programming fields have seen a boom in their industry. Employers are seeing that they are "saving" money when staff work from home and their is a reported increase work-life balance.

Now the down side. It may be hard to fathom this day and age but...there are still students who have no computer let alone, internet access at home. Even if they do have access, with mom and dad working from home finding their time may be the night shift.

Millions of children will not return to school. Despite huge gains in enrolment during the last two decades, 268 million children were already out of school when the pandemic struck. When schools reopen, millions more may not make it back. Children whose households have suffered economic shocks and adolescent girls who are at increased risk of pregnancy or early marriage are particularly vulnerable. A report by Save the Children released earlier this month analysed current out-of-school rates, broken down by income group, and learning outcomes. Their analysis suggests that over 9 million children are at risk of dropping out of school, with Niger, Mali, and Chad topping the list of countries where children are most vulnerable. The World Bank examined current out-of-school rates by economic quintile alongside macro projections of economic contraction in 2020 and predicted that more than seven million children may not return to school. Estimates suggest that more than half of all refugee girls will not return when schools open. https://www.cgdev.org/blog/six-ways-covid-19-will-shape-future-education

Learning loss will exacerbate inequality. In some countries, for example Liberia and Sierra Leone, government-led distance learning programmes were launched within a few days of schools closing. Other countries took much longer—Ghana did not announce its programme until June 15. Substantial progress has been made and some countries have expanded their standard programming to include multiple languages or accessibility features for students with disabilities. This expansion provides a new baseline for countries to build on their distance learning offerings to supplement regular instruction, engage difficult-to-reach children and families, and to be better prepared for future crises and school closures. https://www.cgdev.org/blog/six-ways-covid-19-will-shape-future-education

Check https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/synthesis_report_future_of_education_webnair_1.pdf

For new teachers, entering the field of education has always been an exciting, if daunting, prospect. Helping students achieve their full potential is richly rewarding, after all. But once the COVID-19 pandemic dissipates, a major challenge awaits teachers new and old. The health crisis has opened new gaps in student achievement and exacerbated existing ones, threatening the future of education. Low-income students have endured the worst of the pandemic's deleterious effects. Teachers, new and experienced alike, will be vital in reversing these effects. By addressing the challenges of a post-pandemic world, teachers can save a generation of students from long-term damage. https://www.wgu.edu/blog/shaping-future-education-after-covid-192101.html

El futuro de la educación, en este sentido, es incierto. Las políticas de los países no son claras, convincentes, pertinentes; muchas veces, resultan improvisadas. Por el lado de los docentes, muchos no están preparados para el presente, menos para el futuro.

مستقبل التعليم بعد كوفيد19 في تطور حيث اصبحت ثوره في استراتيجيات التدريس واساليب التعلم واستخدام التطبيقات الحديثة في التعليم وربطها بالواقع , المعظم اتقن الاستراتيجيات والتقنيات واصبح لديهم المام في تطوير المهارات والذات حتي اولياء الامور الامهات نتيجة التعلم عن بعد اتقنوا بعض التطبيقات لاضطرارهم لتعلمها لمساعدة اطفالهم . التعلم عن بعد ناجح في دولة الامارات العربية المتحدة حيث سخرت كل الامكانيات لتوفير ما يلزم لنجاح التعلم والتعليم ما بعد كوفيد سيكون اقوى ما قبل كوفيد نتيجة التنمية المهنية لكل فرد بالمجتمع والبحث وتنمية الذات , ما بعد كوفيد قصة نجاح تحدى العالم اصعب الظروف بعون الله تعالى

I believe that who can adapt to this innovation will adopt distance education.

Thank you very much for your answers. It helps me very much to think about the issue from a lot of points of view.

Blended learning is the future of learning.

it will be hybrid.. it will be blended learning

La historia quedará del mundo marcada por tres momentos: un antes, un durante y un después. El “antes” sin sospechas de nada, todo con la comodidad y la esperanza del bien. El “durante” lleno de desesperación, angustia, lágrimas, enfermedad y muerte; muchos estudiantes sin la posibilidad de conexión a las clases, la pesadilla de la tecnología para muchos, por la falta de equipos y pericia, cuyo tiempo todavía no termina, queda confuso. El “después” todavía sin luces, sin claridad, sin seguridad de nada. Ha cambiado la vida humana en todo; ya no seremos los mismos, ha cambiado todo. Los docentes y los estudiantes (alumnos) ya no serán los mismos. La historia quedará con nuevas páginas.

It absolutely cannot be the same. What we had before wasn't working for students or teachers. This is our opportunity to take a serious look at what was the status quo, keep what was good, if anything, and redesign learning for the future.

I think it is not anymore the same as before, face to face might be limited then teaching - learning process will be more on the new flat form. Therefore there will be an adjustment for the curriculum that we are adapting.

Let's imagine for a second Covid 19 free classrooms where teachers and students can stay in protective spherical glass bubbles. Sci-fi? Who knows...?

After Covid 19, the teaching-learning process should be somewhat enriched because it will have served as a demonstration of the possibility of increasing the prominence of students without diminishing the quality of learning.

I believe things will change for the both educational content, which will have a powerful online significance, as well as educational methods, which will also have to integrate the online. Perhaps the challenge will be to find a coherent way to make the teaching/learning strategies and methods available and easily understandable for students, teachers, and parents, as well as to make to content easily available on all and any device, „a click away”. Once these steps are implemented, evaluation has to follow, but it must be based more on abilities, competencies, use of information, rather then memorization. Put this all together, and teaching, learning, evaluation, mentoring, will add up to a valid, flexible, easily implementable system, built around the student within a community, which will, in time, become the future of society.

This might be an opportunity for me and my team to present a brand new project: the Journal of Teacher Training and Education Research (jtter.uoradea.ro), born out of the desire to offer a platform for young researchers, interested in education sciences.

thank you very much

Teaching and learning after COVID 19 wiil be effective with the BLENDED approach ..Face to face and virtual learning....

Digital and distance learning always has been under negotiation and mostly teachers and educational area consider in person education as most valuable and dependable types of learning because in person evaluation is more trustable in in class learning and teaching but I think Covid make people to think more trustable evaluation methods beside I think it has risen the importance of facilitating educational systems with brand new technology and also take more consideration of overcoming crisis in educational settings . But as other industries do you think videos and clips one day will be substituted by teachers in classes and will reduce the number of work force or not

Than you for your answers, it is very important to me your opinions

I think this concept specially covid should take all peoples attention to be more reflective at the time of normalcy in any educational settings

This is a relevant question. I as well have asked this to my aunt, who happened to be an Ed.D. and a university officer.

chools, especially in HEI will most likely be offering online class options for the students.

Schools in basic education, especially in the Philippine setting will undoubtedly go back to the traditional mode of face to face education since most of our learners don't have access to online education.

Those in private schools will be g back to face to face classes as well but might give option for online home-based learning.

To add, expect more technology integration in classes.

I agree with Mr Isaac Attia about the blended learning. Here in our place learners are still struggling on digital mode of leaning because of poor net connections. So mostly we prefer Modular Learning.

Thank you

When the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic expires, most schools and universities will return to full-time, traditional or possibly hybrid teaching. Already now (April - May 2021) in some countries, in a situation of a significant decrease in the daily number of infections of citizens with Coronavirus and the number of seriously ill people and deaths from the Covid-19 disease, remote learning via the Internet, i.e. conducted in the e-learning formula, is partially replaced by traditional, full-time teaching carried out in school buildings, i.e. teaching in a hybrid formula is launched. In addition, the ministries of education have already announced that if the next waves of the pandemic cause many times less negative health and social effects, then after the holiday period, i.e. from September and / or October 2021, stationary education in the buildings of schools and universities will return to schools and universities.

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Very interesting and relevant topic

Blended learning is the best strategy to implement teaching-learning in the educational sector. curriculum design and teaching pedagogy should be more student-centric. The teacher is a facilitator/mentor for the course. Teaching-learning should focus more skill-based. example: project-based learning, gamification in learning, discussion, problem-solving technique, computational thinking etc... Because of the pandemic, many kids lost their parents. many colleges may not be able to afford the cost of books in the library. Now the latest trend is to build and support Open Educational Resources (OER)

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I have a bias for blended learning, though it can be hard to implement. Online learning throughout the week, accompanied by face-to-face learning on a scheduled day(s) of the week allows the best opportunity to learn both the technical nature of the topic as well as the application through face-to-face discussions or case studies. This is particularly beneficial for adult students who have many life-challenges when trying to be face-to-face in classes in the evenings.