scholarly journals Distant learning as a way to meet challenges: teaching English for medical students

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Olga Pechinkina ◽  
Tatiana Vepreva

Abstract In 2020 the world encountered a new virus. Nobody could predict it but it happened. The boundaries between countries were closed, people were obliged to stay at home, schools and universities were shut and the education was transferred online. We have to admit that not all educational institutions were ready to switch to the online format of teaching in such a short period. However, in conditions when there are no possibilities for face-to-face teaching educators are forced to find the most efficient ways of teaching English. In this paper, the authors aim to investigate online resources able to compensate for the lack of face-to-face communication. While doing research critical analysis of existing literature and generalisation of teaching experience were used. The findings revealed that even in distant learning particular resources can recompense for the absence of offline learning.

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 168-174
Author(s):  
Cherie Chu-Fuluifaga

The importance of maintaining connections and relationships across tertiary education for students is discussed as a way of examining the nature of Pacific education in challenging times, particularly in terms of fractured face-to-face learning. Universities have been thrust into an unpredictable time of remote/distance/online learning in a short period of time. The process has been unsettling and challenging for people across the world. As Pacific students and staff experience the unchartered waters of Covid-19 and global disturbances, they are searching out ways to build purposeful connections, shape-shifting and ways to maintain communities of academic togetherness while harnessing the tools of their knowledge trajectories in research. This article will focus on four key principles: valuing personal and academic connections beyond the textbook; discovering heart-warming methods of connection; and connecting for growth and wellbeing.


Author(s):  
Lizbeth Habib-Mireles ◽  
Mónica Zambrano-Garza ◽  
Neydi Gabriela Alfaro-Cázares

The COVID-19 crisis quickly led to the closure of educational institutions at all levels around the world, from one moment to another, millions of children and young people around the world were left without receiving their face-to-face classes, and many of them went through virtual classrooms framed in a phenomenon known as emergency remote teaching (ERT). This research sought to determine that well-designed and planned online learning experiences are significantly different from virtual courses offered online in response to this crisis, in order to identify what were the main areas of opportunity that learning in this emergency brought to teachers, students and educational institutions. A 12-item instrument was applied that was analyzed under a systematic random probability sampling, obtaining a sample of 49% of the population. The results made it possible to show the difficulties that arose, as well as the tools and platforms most used during the crisis in the institution of study in order to take advantage of knowledge to improve the learning experience of students.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-178
Author(s):  
Eka Indah Nurlaili ◽  
Fajar Budiyanto

The temporary closure of formal educational institutions in an effort to contain the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic around the world has an impact on the education sector, not except in Indonesia. The non-formal education sector, such as the Tutoring Business Agencies, also experienced a very significant impact, where the tutoring agencies had difficulty in implementing the marketing mix. So that further studies are needed so that the tutoring business agencies will survive in a pandemic condition. To obtain data, it was done through literature studies from secondary and qualitative data. The habits of students who tend to prefer face-to-face activities make online tutoring activities less responsive and still choose face-to-face learning as one way to keep up with the school curriculum. The solution so that tutoring agencies can survive is to improve product and process factors. The products include limiting the number of students in the class and the variety of online and offline learning. The process is by spraying disinfectant at each class change and providing distance between students. This needs to be done so that parents who provide the needed funds will feel safe when their children study at the desired tutoring agencies.


10.18060/267 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-222
Author(s):  
Kala Chakradhar ◽  
Llena Chavis

Objective: Distance learning through the use of interactive television (ITV) has been a part of Social Work education for more than two decades. Amidst abundant proof of the overall successes of ITV programs, there are limited accounts of the pedagogical experiences and challenges encountered by faculty who are called upon to teach distant learning courses. This paper describes a pedagogy of ITV teaching experience derived through a teaching circle in a rural undergraduate program. Method: A teaching circle comprised of four social work faculty enabled data gathering through focused discussion and critical thinking of the ITV teaching experience. Results: Extended preparation, augmenting instructional design and technology to enhance interactivity and instructor comfort with the technology emerge as key observations. Pragmatic barriers like the technology and restricted face-to-face contact are workable challenges. Conclusion: Social Work education would need a sincere examination of the interface of synchronous and asynchronous teaching with sensitivity to context and course curricula.


Author(s):  
Prof.G.K Viju ◽  
Prof.G.K Viju

Considering the growing concerns about the outbreak of Covid-19, a large number of educational institutions around the world have been shut down in connection with face-to-face classes. Because of this virus, damage to education has increased; As we face the unpredictable future found around the world, we need to provide our society as a whole with flexible and vibrant education systems. In this paper, a meta-analysis method is adopted and the related literature. Relevant literature was conducted to entrap the core of further study during the period. Findings show that universities around the world are increasingly moving toward online education or elearning. The study also shows that ICT is an important component of integrated learning, in addition to a variety of resources such as staff willingness, trust, student reachability, and stimulus. This paper suggests that faculty members should use and use technology and technical clothing to enhance learning during these unexpected times. This suggests that online and distance learning is a requirement during lock-down and social distance due to the Covid-19 pandemic.


XLinguae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-169
Author(s):  
Tolganay Kurmanbayeva ◽  
Damina Shaibakova ◽  
Meirimkul Tuleup ◽  
Marzhan Nurmakhanova ◽  
Karlygash Kubdasheva

This paper is devoted to the study of general issues of teaching English terminology in the electric power industry during the Coronavirus. The outbreak of the pandemic posed a serious challenge to education systems around the world. For the first time ever, traditional face-to-face training turned out to be impossible. Governments’ decision to make distance education compulsory on all levels in the context of the coronavirus pandemic was unprecedented but needed. The development of the electric power industry affects the state of various industries and the daily life of people around the world. The search for alternative forms of education during the time of the crisis, therefore, became urgent. The aim of our research paper was to create a substantiated, experimentally proven methodology for teaching students terminological vocabulary of the professional language of the electric power industry during Coronavirus. In addition, we identified strategies for mastering professional terminological vocabulary pertaining to reading specialized texts as well as to oral communication in professionally significant communication situations focused on the electric power industry. To achieve this goal, the following tasks needed to be completed: (1) to study linguistic, psychological, psycholinguistic, methodological literature on the problems of teaching terminological vocabulary; (2) to determine the features of the functioning of the lexical skills of operating with professional terms; (3) to determine the lexical features of the terminological vocabulary of the sublanguage “the electric power industry”; (4) to develop based on this typology a technology for teaching students the skills of using terminological vocabulary in the process of oral and written communication; (5) to check the effectiveness of the proposed methodology in the process of experiential learning.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Nur Fauziah

The Covid-19 pandemic that hit Indonesia has a very significant impact on education. The spread of that virus is not only in Indonesia but throughout the world, so many learning processes run down. Educational institutions have been closed due to concerns about the Covid-19 expansion. The spread of the virus is very fast, but learning must be carried out through an online process without a face-to-face meeting. However, the digital world made the safest way to break the chain of spreading the coronavirus outbreak because getting an education is students' right without neglecting their health and mental safety. Digital technology which greatly helps the teacher using the learning media throughout applications can facilitate the relationship between teachers and students in the learning process, even though many obstacles and adjustments were made than the previous face to face learning.


Author(s):  
Muhammad Hapizd Kamaludin ◽  
Teuku Raehan Revikhasyah ◽  
Alwansyah Rifa’i ◽  
Fikri Sabillah ◽  
Tukfatul Anam ◽  
...  

The closure of all teaching and learning activities at educational institutions throughout Indonesia starting March 2020, to assist in efforts to contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Hundreds of thousands and even millions of students throughout Indonesia began to feel the impact of teaching and distance learning activities carried out online at their respective homes, many problems began to arise from mounting homework, incomprehensible assignments, psychologically shaken children because they were not put up with online learning, and parents who are busy working to buy their children online learning needs. Therefore, the opening of several community reading parks or TBM for short, if it can help a little bit the burden of parents and the burden of the students themselves, in doing the tasks given by the Educational Institution, with face-to-face offline learning methods.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-130
Author(s):  
Ainil Mardiyah ◽  
Hafizah Delyana ◽  
Lita Lovia ◽  
Ali Asmar

The world of education is currently experiencing a very extraordinary event. The Covid-19 pandemic has a very broad impact on participants and educational institutions. Our education system must be ready to take the leap to transform online learning for all students and by all teachers. We are entering a new era to build creativity, hone student skills, and improve our quality with changes in systems, perspectives and patterns of our interactions with technology. Every individual who is in an educational environment must be able to use technology that can help the learning process, especially in schools. Likewise, with the implementation of teaching and learning at SMAN 3 Padang, the process of implementing learning in these schools currently cannot be carried out face-to-face in class as usual. Students take lessons from home. To find out the ability of teacher students, they must evaluate the learning that has been given. One of them is by giving the teacher online quizzes because face to face is no longer possible during the Covid 19 pandemic. Mathematics is one of the subjects considered difficult by students, especially for mastery of Olympic questions. For this reason, teachers are required to have creativity so that learning can be understood by students. Mathematics teachers are given training that supports this. The training that will be provided is in the form of making questions for quizzes which are carried out online. The students will solve these questions in accordance with the specified time. Teachers who take part in the training are expected to be able to motivate and evaluate students' ability to work on Olympic questions even though they are carried out online.


Author(s):  
Agus Purnomo Ahmad Putikadyanto ◽  
Agik Nur Efendi ◽  
Sahrul Romadhon ◽  
Moh. Badruddin Amin ◽  
Nur Aisyah Sefrianah

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on all aspects of education around the world. This pandemic shattered the previously established education system. Face-to-face offline learning in schools has been forced to close and disrupt the learning of more than 1.6 billion students worldwide. Learning in droves has turned to using online-based technology, including learning Indonesian in Indonesia. Students are forced to follow these fundamental changes for the sake of the continuity of the learning process. This study attempts to describe students' perceptions of online-based Indonesian language learning in one of the Indonesian schools, SMAN 1 Pasuruan.


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