scholarly journals Paradigm Shift towards E-Learning in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fasunwon, Adebayo Folorunso Ph.D ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Platforms ◽  
Political Realities

In almost every place in the world, the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic is pushing societies, cultures and civilizations into uncharted territories. Social systems, economic structures and to an extent, political realities are being disrupted on a scale unprecedented in human recorded history. Educational systems are no exception, with more than 1.6 billion learners forced out of traditional schooling since the beginning of the pandemic. E-learning platforms and models are thus taking the center stage, leaping out from the shadows of traditional classroom-based learning with such force that many have argued it is indeed the future of learning. This paper examines the realities of such a paradigm shift within the Nigerian context, with particular spotlight on its advantages to the educational sector, as well as challenges that may hinder the realization of these advantages and nullify potential positive impacts.

scholarly journals Facing Challenges of Covid-19: The Perspective of China and Ethiopia Educational Institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Chen Chang ◽  
Getaye Aytenew
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Learning Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Platforms

<p>Concerning the fast spread of COVID-19, countries all over the world have closed academic institutions to stop the pandemic. It is now apparent that students and teachers require other options that have to be more versatile, easily accessible, and support the current technologies and conditions to face the unpredictable future. From the review, literature disclosed that universities throughout the globe are establishing and implementing electronics learning platforms as a basic need in academic institutions. This manuscript aimed to assess the status of electronics learning in China and Ethiopian educational institutions to counter the challenges of the closure of schools because of the outbreak of the pandemic. The paper highlights concerning e-learning in the sense of China and Ethiopia, e-learning challenges, and successful experiences. This review paper also suggests educators use e-learning and distance learning as a necessity to advance learning, particularly during this pandemic season.</p>

Empowered Learner Identity Through M-Learning

2014 ◽  
pp. 272-283
Author(s):  
Ruth Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Learner Identity ◽  
E Learning

E-learning has been promoted as a key component of improving educational access and opportunity internationally, but for disenfranchised learners, many forms of e-learning are just as alien as the educational systems they have rejected. M-learning utilises technologies, activities and social systems that are integrated into many people’s lives, including those who have had limited access to, or rejected, formal education systems. This paper discusses projects conducted in Northern Australia that explored a range of e-tools to support indigenous students’ engagement and recognition of their knowledge and contexts. Mobile learning tools emerged as the preferred way to learn throughout the project. This approach challenges educational institutions to connect to students’ lives and contexts. This paper shows how participants utilised m-learning to demonstrate their diverse knowledge systems, the decisions they made about representing knowledge though m-learning, and the implications for trainers and assessors.

Paradigm Shift for the Future

2021 ◽  
pp. 173-201
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Way

Through case studies of incidents around the world where the social media platforms have been used and abused for ulterior purposes, Chapter 6 highlights the lessons that can be learned. For good or for ill, the author elaborates on the way social media has been used as an arbiter to inflict various forms of political influence and how we may have become desensitized due to the popularity of the social media platforms themselves. A searching view is provided that there is now a propensity by foreign states to use social media to influence the user base of sovereign countries during key political events. This type of activity now justifies a paradigm shift in relation to our perception and utilization of computerized devices for the future.

Empowered Learner Identity Through M-Learning

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Learner Identity ◽  
E Learning

E-learning has been promoted as a key component of improving educational access and opportunity internationally, but for disenfranchised learners, many forms of e-learning are just as alien as the educational systems they have rejected. M-learning utilises technologies, activities and social systems that are integrated into many people’s lives, including those who have had limited access to, or rejected, formal education systems. This paper discusses projects conducted in Northern Australia that explored a range of e-tools to support indigenous students’ engagement and recognition of their knowledge and contexts. Mobile learning tools emerged as the preferred way to learn throughout the project. This approach challenges educational institutions to connect to students’ lives and contexts. This paper shows how participants utilised m-learning to demonstrate their diverse knowledge systems, the decisions they made about representing knowledge though m-learning, and the implications for trainers and assessors.

scholarly journals Lessons Learned Transitioning from Traditional Premedical and Medical Education to E-learning Platforms during the COVID-19 Pandemic within the United Arab Emirates

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 238212052110258
Author(s):  
Siobhán M. O’Sullivan ◽  
Ali A. Khraibi ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Peter R. Corridon
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Rapid Transition ◽  
Learning Platforms ◽  
The Impact

Educational systems across the globe were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and faculty, staff, and students had to rapidly transition to e-learning platforms. These groups had little preparation to cope with the challenges of this newly adopted system. However, as we begin to emerge from the COVID-19 era, efforts are being made to assess the impact of this transition and develop a framework of best practices to help educators prepare for possible future disruptions. This commentary aims to discuss some of the challenges associated with the rapid transition to the new academic environment, including the modes of instruction employed, technical obstacles encountered, student responses to change and efforts made to evaluate didactic and practical aspects of the curriculum in the contexts of premedical and medical education, at the newly established College of Medicine at Khalifa University of Science and Technology in the United Arab Emirates.

Internationalisation: a ‘new horizon’ for dental education and research

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 182-185
Author(s):  
Peter Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Dental Education ◽  
Oral Disease ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Clinical Expertise ◽  
Oral Health Education ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
International University

Internationalisation may be defined as a series of processes whereby an institute strives to increase its influence and effectiveness through global networking. In higher education, this offers opportunities to enhance communication and mobilisation between educational systems. To be globally competitive, the international university of the future must embrace digital technology, online courses and ongoing lifetime learning, especially for alumni to facilitate networks of global expertise. Oral disease neither recognises nor respects international boundaries, nor therefore should dental education, research and clinical expertise which are highly valued commodities in society. For dentistry, internationalisation offers real opportunities to influence and promote the highest standards of oral health education and clinical practice throughout the world. The international university of the future must recognise the importance of setting the highest standards for oral health across the world while maintaining regional structures and priorities.

scholarly journals La percepción del paisaje desde la realidad de Occidente: Entre la naturaleza y la razón // The Perception of the Landscape from the Western Perspective: Between Nature and Reason

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-22
Author(s):  
Esther Valdés Tejera
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
First Century ◽  
Landscape Perception ◽  
Binary Nature ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Western Perspective ◽  
Geographical Space

Resumen      Inmersa la Tierra en una profunda crisis eco-social, que algunos niegan y otros tratan de superar con las mismas recetas que la provocaron, es necesario un nuevo ideario sobre el que construir un mundo sostenible. El paisaje, intersección entre el espacio geográfico y la mirada del observador, se ha configurado en Occidente guiado por las diferentes maneras de entender el mundo a lo largo de la historia. Una interpretación de dichas realidades con los ojos del siglo veintiuno nos permite redefinir las etapas de la percepción del paisaje y poner en contexto el momento actual. A partir del binomio naturaleza-razón, hemos creado una narrativa que transita por nuestro pasado y se detiene en los momentos más representativos de la percepción del paisaje, aquellos que han ido acompañados de un cambio de paradigma. Comprender las consecuencias de dicha evolución nos permite esbozar algunas ideas y ponerle nombre al futuro.  AbstractGiven the fact that the Earth is embroiled in a deep eco-social crisis, denied by some while others try to overcome it using the same recipes that provoked it, a new ideology is needed to build a sustainable world. The Western landscape, the intersection between geographical space and the viewers’ gaze, was configured following the different ways of understanding the world throughout history. Interpreting these realities from a twenty first century perspective allows us to redefine the stages in the perception of the landscape and place them in context. Based on the binary nature-reason, this paper builds a historical narrative that highlights the most representative moments in landscape perception, those which constitute a paradigm shift. Understanding the consequences of this evolution enables us to outline some ideas that might indicate a direction of the future.

scholarly journals From Patterns to Freefall: Exposing the Vulnerability of Human Predicament in the Times of the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 5889-5896
Author(s):  
Dr. Swapna Gopinath
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Human Predicament ◽  
The World ◽  
The Times ◽  
New Social Order

COVID-19 demands a paradigm shift in modes of human interaction and challenges hegemonic social structures to adapt and evolve themselves to the altered reality of human existence. Across the world, these shifts have been triggered by the new social order threatening to erase existing social systems. My paper attempts to look at the lives of the precariats, caught up within neoliberal structures, assuming these structures to be hegemonic normative systems, and the manner in which they refuse to change, thereby putting the precariats into a more exploitative crisis situation, dehumanizing them, demonizing them, thereby risking their erasure from the socio-political and legal systems that rule the world. I have used the context of India to substantiate my argument. My paper is divided into the following sections: a reading into the concept of precarity and contextualizing it in the neoliberal framework, analysing the pandemic against precarity using examples from Indian society.

scholarly journals Discourse Analysis in E-Learning-Based Course Using Moodle Platform: An Experimental Design

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Eka Putri ◽  
Budianto Hamuddin ◽  
Mutia Sari Nursafira ◽  
Tatum Derin
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Learning Platforms ◽  
And Control

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused educational institutions all over the world to migrate their teachings online. Since Indonesian government issued the SK Mendiknas No. 107/U/2001, educational institutions had to steadily integrate their learning process with technology. So, this study intends to investigate the effectiveness of using the open-source learning platforms known as Moodle in a selected university, Universitas Lancang Kuning (Unilak) in Indonesia. While multiple courses uses Moodle, this study selected to analyse the 2017/2018 fifth semester students as they are the ones who pioneered Moodle for other classes to use. With a quasi-experimental research design, this study used four types of test to calculate the results of the essay pre-test and post-test on both experimental and control classes. With the eventual mean of 65.53 for the experimental class and 63.25 for the control, this study proved that Moodle does effectively improve Indonesian university EFL students’ learning compared to conventional lecture-style learning. Future research is hoped to extend or compare this study with an investigation on how university EFL students are using e-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors that have not been covered in this empirical study.

scholarly journals Learning Management Systems through Moodle and Google Classroom for Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Sempavalan Vasanth ◽  
C. S. Sumathi
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Classroom Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Platforms ◽  
Giving Feedback

Information and Communication Technologies have become more prevalent in the last few years and has made a great impact on society. Worldwide, a lot of education programs offer new forms of education that are frequently supported by information and communication technology (ICT) to cater to young minds. E-learning in particular has been adopted by educational institutions all over the world and it is being used as a part of “blended learning” where it is incorporated into systems along with traditional classroom learning. Nowadays, it has become more relevant than ever due to the COVID-19 pandemic that the world is facing. Although these systems differ from classroom learning, they allow easy communication among teachers and students at any time necessary and provide an entire repository for students to use. For teachers, it acts as an environment for creating courses, assignments, giving feedback and grading students. In this paper, two such E-learning platforms namely Moodle and Google Classroom are compared and contrasted based on their usability and simplicity.

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