scholarly journals Socio-Economic Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Implication on Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
Benryl Bacaro Llamera
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Strict Adherence ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
Framework Model ◽  
Socio Economic Impact

This study contributes to the Covid-19 literature by understanding the recent pandemic implications on seaweed farmers' lives. The study's respondents are tripartite, composing seaweed farmers, students, and significant personnel from the Local Government Units (LGUs). Data were collected through face-to-face interviews with strict adherence to the IATF’s minimum health standards. Gathered data were analyzed thematically. Results show that the pandemic impacted seaweed farmers’ lives socially and economically. The pandemic has implications for the education of the children of the seaweed farmers as it is gleaned in the findings that most of them struggle over the new modes of learning. However, the implications were mainly domino effects of the adverse impacts of the pandemic on the parents. The study’s findings are substantial in mitigating the ongoing pandemic’s adverse effects and laid a foundation for the proposed intervention framework model. Conclusions were discussed and gave light to recommendations primarily offered to the Local Government Units (LGUs), educational institutions under the Department of Education Agutaya District, and concerned higher education institutions in the Province of Palawan as a basis for policy and program formulations aimed at mitigating the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the lives of seaweed farmers in Agutaya, Palawan.

scholarly journals Education and Vocational Training in Kosovo, A Challenge and Objective of the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1970-1982
Author(s):  
Ph.D. Safet Krasniqi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Radical Reform ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Eu

Classes in Kosovo are held in private and public educational institutions. Education in Kosovo went through very hard phases and challenges especially in the years 1990/1999 since differences and the need for change made us not entirely prepared. After the establishment of Kosovo Institutions, the Department of Education and Science (DES) was established within the Ministry of Education. The primary aim was to establish the legal and professional basis as a frontline of the reform of our education system, especially the acceptance of the Bologna processes that facilitate the radical reform of general and vocational education. This paper will address the aspects of reforming and progression of vocational secondary education, vocational schools, and correspondence to the needs of the EU market and the possibility of implementing in post-secondary and university higher education.

scholarly journals THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BLENDED LEARNING IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES AT NON-PHILOLOGICAL SPECIALTIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9(77)) ◽  
pp. 118-120
Author(s):  
Svitlana Romanyuk ◽  
Veronika Trofimchuk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Control Evaluation

The article deals with the peculiarities of blended learning implementation in teaching foreign languages for professional purposes at the institutions of higher education. The author examines the essence of blended learning model, which combines traditional form of study (face-to-face session) with online collaborative learning and all characteristics of information educational technologies, analyzes its main principles and priorities, as well as the difficulties of its introduction in the educational process of the university. In particular, the possibility of using blended learning as a means of improving the effectiveness of the educational process is considered. The article substantiates the methodical expediency of blended learning application in the process of teaching foreign languages for professional purposes at higher educational institutions at non-philological specialties. Recently, the higher educational institutions intensify the process of learning foreign languages through the introduction of the variety of teaching technologies. Blended learning is a combination of the traditional classroom and modern digital education. Blended learning can be an important direction in the modernization of higher education and a prerequisite for improving quality and efficiency of the learning process. The main advantages of blended learning are productivity, teamwork, individualization, asynchrony, speed, interactivity, didactic support, the presence of control systems, self-control, evaluation.

The Potential of Distance Education for the Inclusion of Students in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 379-401
Author(s):  
Carla Freire ◽  
Catarina Mangas ◽  
Rogério Costa ◽  
Adriana Lage Costa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Universal Design For Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Design For Learning

We live in a changing world, where the role of educational institutions is being transformed. The available technologies allow new conditions to access learning; however, as they evolve very fast, sometimes it is challenging to track this evolution regarding the changes that entail to all of us, which may contribute to a digital divide if it is not well addressed. This chapter intends to present distance education as a reliable modality to include students in higher education. For that, it presents the universal design for learning and its crucial role to make inclusive virtual learning environments. Like every modality that exists, there are some challenges that need to be addressed, as well as some benefits that allow to see the potential of this modality to learning, overcoming some adversities that may occur, like the lack of time to go to face-to-face education or even the need of social isolation by risk of getting a disease.

Learning across Multiple Spaces

2014 ◽  
pp. 372-392
Author(s):  
Laura Fedeli ◽  
Pier Giuseppe Rossi ◽  
Lorella Giannandrea
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Traditional Instruction ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
E Learning

This chapter deals with four different case studies represented by graduate and post-lauream courses run at the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism at University of Macerata (Italy). These cases synthesize the research developed in the last 10 years by the teaching staff who have promoted the activation of e-learning in the institution. The choice to present different contexts, from blended solutions where face-to-face courses are integrated with online environments to fully online courses, is framed in a new pedagogical perspective; that is, the need to focus on the methodologies and strategies is recognized as successful in e-learning in order to improve the quality of traditional instruction developed in the presence of higher education institutions. This process shifts attention from “quality of e-learning” to “quality through e-learning.” In fact, the differentiated and flexible use of technologies is aimed at helping students become more involved in the educational setting and to help them contextualize their studies more effectively.

scholarly journals The COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity to Foster the Sustainable Development of Teaching in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria José Sá ◽  
Sandro Serpa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Education Market ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education ◽  
Temporary Closure

The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound consequences on the social, economic and cultural life at the global level. The educational dimension has also been affected in the schools’ regular functioning, with the temporary closure of educational institutions, as well as the impediment of face-to-face classes. This perspective paper aims to add to the knowledge already produced on this topic, by arguing that these challenging conditions can be a pivotal moment of opportunity for reshaping higher education, with the implementation, development and diffusion, among academics and students, of digital technologies. The paper also discusses the role of leadership in the transformation of organizational culture in higher education. The methodology used to carry out this study is qualitative, and the technique employed to analyze the data collected was content analysis. Research studies, in diverse formats, already published on the COVID-19 topic and its impacts were the elected data sources. The results of this document analysis allow us to conclude that there is the need to improve the digital sustainable development in teaching in higher education, which entails profound challenges that higher education institutions need to face and overcome if they want to be at the forefront of success in the international education market. This is where the authors seek to contribute, by offering insights on the challenges—but also the opportunities—that COVID-19 poses to higher education at a time when it needs to redefine its teaching methods, leadership models, and interaction channels, by going digital towards the improvement of the sustainable development of its teaching.

scholarly journals A Global MetaUniversity to Lead by Design to a Sustainable Well-Being Future

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Costanza ◽  
Ida Kubiszewski ◽  
Tom Kompas ◽  
Paul C. Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Agenda Building ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Learning Research ◽  
Real World Problems

The COVID19 pandemic has revealed deep, ingrained problems with higher education, but also opportunities for positive transformation. In the post-COVID world, education at all levels has the chance to become: (1) universally available at low cost; (2) focused on developing competencies, (3) empowering fulfilling lives, not merely job training; and (4) engaged with communities to solve real-world problems. Achieving this will require overcoming the mass production model of higher education by utilizing the full potential of the Internet in creative ways balanced with face-to-face solutions-based integrated learning, research, and outreach agenda. Building a global collaborative consortium of universities and other educational institutions can move this agenda forward. We describe how this “MetaUniversity” could be structured and how it would serve to advance this agenda and lead the way to a sustainable well-being future for humanity and the rest of nature.

From Face-to-Face Education to Online Education

2022 ◽  
pp. 149-170
Author(s):  
Otto Regalado-Pezua ◽  
Manuel Leonardo Toro Galeano
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Virtual Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
E Learning ◽  
New Challenges

Currently, traditional formal education has taken an unexpected turn due to the events caused by the pandemic as a consequence of COVID-19 and social distancing, leading to educational institutions changing the way of imparting knowledge and skills, study modalities, by strengthening and prioritizing virtual education and distance education (e-learning). Under this scenario, new challenges arise and adaptation and/or creation of new processes, which the different higher education institutions are forced to adapt to remain competitive in the market. The case of a higher education institution in Lima is presented, which, from the global crisis presented by COVID-19, had to adapt to a one hundred percent virtual education. The strategy defined by the business school and the monitoring of the implemented measures is favorably influencing the student experience.

scholarly journals The Hybridization of Distance Learning in Brazil -- An Approach Imposed by Culture

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Michael Litto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Centralized Control ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Conservative Attitude

Institutions of higher education in Brazil are seriously behind in their development of approaches which make use of distance education techniques, in part due to widespread lack of credibility of these approaches both inside and outside academic communities, but even more so because of the highly centralized control over all aspects of higher education on the part of the country’s Ministry of Education. Despite the country’s capacity and need to do so, the rigid and pedagogically conservative attitude of this Ministry over the last three decades, combined with the equally intransigent and politically-motivated decisions of the National Congress, have discouraged practically all attempts by educational institutions, public and private, to invest significantly in the development of innovative and far-reaching initiatives employing distance learning methods. Hybridization, or the combination, in the same course, of face-to-face situations for learning with those carried out using distance learning techniques, represents in Brazil is not an option motivated by pedagogical choice, but rather the only avenue legally permitted in the field of formal, degree-granting higher education.

scholarly journals Transformation of Higher Education During the Pandemic: Pain Points

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
I. R. Gafurov ◽  
H. I. Ibragimov ◽  
A. M. Kalimullin ◽  
T. B. Alishev
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Format ◽  
Modern Work

The relevance of the study is due to the contradiction between the mass transition of the Russian system of higher education to the distance learning format and the insufficient willingness of participants in the educational process to work under the new requirements caused by the COVID 19 pandemic. Teachers, students and administrators of higher educational institutions in Russia have encountered a number of difficulties. Their analysis will highlight the objective and subjective factors of their occurrence and develop recommendations for the further organization of distance learning in its combination with the traditional format. The purpose of the study was to analyze the modern work experience in the remote format of one of the leading Russian universities – Kazan Federal University. On this basis, the article analyzes successes and problems of this process, shows the contradictions between traditional and distance learning, considers the main models of educational organization that involve traditional and remote learning formats using distance educational technologies. It is concluded that in the system of basic formal education at all levels and areas of training, distance learning can be considered as a form that complements and strengthens the social, pedagogical, organizational, psychological, and didactic potential of the traditional (face-to-face) educational format.The work comprehensively used the methods of theoretical (analysis, synthesis, systematization, comparison, etc.) and empirical (study of literature, conversation, questioning, observation) research.

scholarly journals Temporal Flexibility in Online University Courses in Spain and Australia

2013 ◽  
pp. 111-125
Author(s):  
Elena Barberà ◽  
Marc Clarà ◽  
Patrick A. Danaher ◽  
Henriette van Rensburg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Time Constraints ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Current Role ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
University Courses ◽  
Temporal Flexibility

Temporal flexibility in learning is one of the main promises and advantages of online learning, as well as one of its most important characteristics. This advantage has been widely exploited by institutions, which offer several degrees online or constitute themselves fully online. Although it is clear that online university courses are able to be more flexible in time than face-to-face courses, it is also true that as formal educational institutions with accreditation responsibilities universities face some time constraints that prevent them from being absolutely flexible. In this chapter, the authors present a study to assess the levels of time flexibility of online courses in two universities in Spain and Australia. To do so, they administrated a Likert-scale questionnaire to 413 students at both universities to assess seven items of time flexibility. The results suggest that in both universities some items of time flexibility are quite high but other items are still low. The authors then discuss these results from the point of view of the nature of higher education institutions and their current role in society.

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