The COVID-19 pandemic is first and foremost a health crisis. Many countries have (rightly) decided to close schools, colleges and universities. The crisis crystallises the dilemma policymakers are facing between closing schools (reducing contact and saving lives) and keeping them open (allowing workers to work and maintaining the economy). The severe short-term disruption is felt by many families around the world: home schooling is not only a massive shock to parents’ productivity, but also to children’s social life and learning. Teaching is moving online, on an untested and unprecedented scale. Student assessments are also moving online, with a lot of trial and error and uncertainty for everyone. Many assessments have simply been cancelled. Importantly, these interruptions will not just be a short-term issue, but can also have long-term consequences for the affected cohorts and are likely to increase inequality.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected educational systems worldwide, leading to the near-total closures of schools, universities and colleges. Most governments around the world have temporarily closed educational institutions in an attempt to contain the spread of COVID-19. As of 27 July 2020, approximately 1.725 billion learners are currently affected due to school closures in response to the pandemic. According to UNICEF monitoring, 106 countries are currently implementing nationwide closures and 55 are implementing local closures, impacting about 98.6 percent of the world's student population. 48 countries' schools are currently open.
I think that the COVID-19 pandemic will give an opportunity to reconsider the education systems in the world and the need to incorporate modern technologies in education ..... and that the focus is on how the student gets the information he needs and on personal and professional skills each in his field of specialization rather than memorization ..... including what qualifies the graduate to get a job.
Most universities, colleges, institutes and schools are closed when Covid-19 spreads around the world, thus the learning in all these institutes were affected by disease.
Covid-19 has negative impacts on primary and higher education in any part of world due to lack of direct contact between teacher and pupils. However, Corona is able to preach that human technology is not enough for human existence.
Eventually, Covid-19 impacted all sectors especially the educational sector. It caused all Universities, schools, colleges, institutes to be closed which impacted all students at all levels. It also forced the educational sector to implement a new method that is new to them such as the remote learning. It also impacted the staff and definitely affected them as well.
The level of researches and grants have been declined due to the financial strains facing every person and every sector of a country.
My experience at Facutly is that learning is improved. Students are mostly Generation Z and they were delighted with online lecturing - they were very active and engaged... That was new experience for teachers and students.
Jelena Lukić : It may be true that you and your students taught and learned enthusiastically in online electronic environment. However classroom teaching with physical appearance of teachers and learners sets more communications possibilities with eye contacts and concentrations. It is easier to see and observe more people in case of being physically present.
The corona pandemic enhances the acceleration of education transformation and replaces it with the distance education system. It also results in the emergence of unlimited creativity, in which new ideas emerge. Scientists, researchers, lecturers, and even students try to conduct experiments to find the Covid-19 vaccine. Besides, it also boosts innovative collaboration between parents and teachers so that students can still undergo online learning effectively.
Starting from the spring of 2020, the outbreak of the COVID‐19 caused Chinese universities to close the campuses and forced them to initiate online teaching... Bao, W. (2020). COVID‐19 and online teaching in higher education: A case study of Peking University. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2(2), 113-115.
Different areas related to education have embraced online education technology... Zhang, W., Wang, Y., Yang, L., & Wang, C. (2020). Suspending classes without stopping learning: China’s education emergency management policy in the COVID-19 Outbreak.
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Thank dr Mohd Rafi mohd solleh for answering the question. I think the teaching in COVID-19 as a window operating system when is running in safe mode without features.
With schools and colleges switching over to online and hybrid formats, face to face education is becoming rarer during the pandemic. It has been proved that material retention by students is less through electronic learning than face to face instruction in many subject areas. Thus Covid19 has only made the quality of education worse
Accordingly, and was reported is due to the physiological effect. However, it is pandemic and around the world suffers because of the negative effect on the education system.
Education seems to be going through a paradigm shift as boundaries of separate institutes are falling apart and online schemes have really started to shape global classroom where anybody can study any course from any institute without leaving home and at a fraction of the cost.
Education is badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The concept of face to face/class teaching has chanced even in resource-poor countries. Every educational institute is on the way to introduce online courses. This definitely would raise the gap between haves and haven't. I do believe online courses should not be the alternative to class teaching, it could only supplement.
In my opinion, education quality has affected negatively by Covid-19. The electronic connection with students is successful experiment, but the direct connection with them is necessary as I think.
I do agree with the previous views expressed by various fellow researchers, due to the shift of teaching and learning process to on-line, it cost the student and teachers more for internet, whereas the internet availability where the students live vary from one place to another.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the larg- est disruption of education in history, having already had a near universal impact on learners and teachers around the world, from pre-primary to secondary schools, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions, universities, adult learning, and skills
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I deliver lessons via watsup, emails and podcast. Unfortunately less than 10% of students responding. No physical interaction between the lecturer and students, then quality of knowledge and skills passing out is almost.
In many countries, schools are still closed, examinations can be administered, and huge revenues have been lost in academic institutions due to Covid-19 lockdown
I think that depending on online teaching that considers the only available solution as a result of the lockdown in most schools and universities around the world, has a very negative effect on the quality of some courses especially Medical science, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, ... etc, that mostly depend on practical application and research inside laboratories.
Initially it might seem negative but I am sure in the long run it will make the education system more robust and reliable, in keeping with the popular saying : "anything which does not kill you, makes you stronger".
School closures impact not only students, teachers, and families but have far-reaching economic and societal consequences.School closures in response to the pandemic have shed light on various social and economic issues, including student debt,digital learning,food insecurity, and homelessness,as well as access to childcare health care,] housing, internet, and disability services. The impact was more severe for disadvantaged children and their families, causing interrupted learning, compromised nutrition, childcare problems, and consequent economic cost to families who could not work.
COVID-19 has negative effects on the quality of education. Sorry to say, due closure of the schools, teachers of many private schools are without salaries for months together, many of them are hawker now.
Unfortunately, the quality of education of students at schools and universities is adversely affected, at schools parents are more aware of students' curricula and homeworks than students themselves and at universities psychomotor skills of the students are particularly affected.
El efecto negativo puede estar en no implementar una estrategia que involucre capacitación tanto a profesores como a alumnos, además de darle seguimiento puntual y acompañamiento.