scholarly journals The New Era of Education amidst COVID-19 Lockdown

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 185-191
Author(s):  
Suprava Sahu ◽  
Binita Nanda
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Online Mode ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Virus World

Novel Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has immensely affected each and every aspect of human life. Due to spreading of the virus world-wide and that too at an alarming rate, education system has been badly hit since the arrival of Corona virus. It has made the schools and colleges to shut down and has compelled them to adopt the online mode of education. According to a UNESCO report, more than 157 crore students across 191 countries had been severely affected by the closure of educational institutions throughout the globe due to COVID-19. Efforts are being taken to identify and investigate the challenges that presently our higher education system is facing due to COVID-19 disruption. There are opportunities that need to be explored for the upcoming global teaching and learning after COVID-19. There had been a lot of anxiety and uncertainty regarding opening of schools and colleges as previously there was no vaccine for the corona virus. This paper attempts to study how different categories viz. Administration, Students and Teachers in the educational sector have been affected by the lockdown keeping in view the cancellation of exams, study plan, examination, career and classes. For the analysis, primary data has been collected through a questionnaire in which a total of 116 number of responses have been recorded. Keywords: Schools, Colleges, Institutions, Universities, Online education, Education, COVID-19, Lockdown.

scholarly journals Students' Perceptions of Online Learning and Teaching during COVID-19 pandemic: An Empirical Study in Selected University in Sri Lanka

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-57
Author(s):  
Shamini Howshigan ◽  
Thevanes Nadesan
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Education System ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Online Teaching And Learning ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Face To Face

The dramatic transition to online pedagogy in education, as a consequence of COVID19 has shownseveral inequalities and challenges and advantages in education. The epidemic of COVID-19 profoundly changed the global higher education system in 2020, and the crisis has accelerated innovation in the education sector. Anyhow, whatever the situation, high academic standards are required for a university to produce high-quality teaching outputs and graduates, and it should ensure continuously. With this intention, this study conducted to assess the efficacy of online teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the perceptions of undergraduate students from the Selected university.A validated online questionnaire is used among the 171 students from the selected university. The primary goal of this paper is to analyse how the education system adapts to online teaching and learning, identify the preferred mode of study by the students in between face to face interaction and online learning, and identify the advantages and challenges faced by the students in online learning. The paper also aims to make recommendations for improving online teaching and learning through the use of online. The study's findings show that, even though the students are satisfied with the existing online teaching and learning in selected university, they prefer face to face learning than online learning. The study strongly recommends that improving the quality of the online education system and striving to solve students' issues in terms of online learning is required to maintain the standard in education. The study's findings shed light on government and non-government educational institutions, academics, and policymakers to enhance online education and maintain the education standard.

scholarly journals Impact of Covid-19 on Higher Education Sectors in Sri Lanka: A Study based on South Eastern University of Sri Lanka

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 341
Author(s):  
A. Rameez ◽  
M. A. M. Fowsar ◽  
N. Lumna
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Education System ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Online Mode ◽  
The University

Modern scientific and technological changes have enabled online education as an integral part of the education system in the contemporary world. Although online learning system was influential in the pre-Covid 19 periods to a certain extent, it has become an inevitable part of the teaching and learning process of higher education sectors during the Covid-19 era. As the Covid-19 posed enormous challenges on the traditional higher education system, there was a desperate need globally for every government to incorporate online education into their higher education system. However, online education was not given much importance in the Sri Lankan higher education sector before the Covid-19. But, the closure of universities due to Covid-19 had prompted the government of Sri Lanka to promote the online mode of education as an alternative solution to continue higher education activity during a crisis. Thus, online education has presently become an essential component of Sri Lanka's higher education sector. Nevertheless, there are many obstacles and challenges confronting the higher education sectors, particularly in the universities of Sri Lanka to perpetuate online education successfully. Against this backdrop, this study attempts to give an insight into the impact of Covid-19 on the teaching and learning process of South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, and the challenges faced by the university in perpetuating online education system during the Covid-19. The findings of the study show that the university encountered several challenges in terms of online delivery, problems related to practical test via online mode, assessment, examination and supervision of the thesis. The study further highlights issues concerning online teaching and learning environment and a lack of online teaching and learning skills among staff and students that were considered critical to the smooth functioning of teaching and learning process of the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study argues that the university should focus on a hybrid education system to address the issues of online mode of education confronted by staff and students to make the teaching and learning process more effective.

scholarly journals A Survey of ELE Students’ Perception about Online Class through WhatsApp

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 696-705
Author(s):  
Fika Ahsantu Dhonni ◽  
Nunung Suryati ◽  
Furaidah
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Education System ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Corona Virus

Abstract: Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) has affected education system around the world. Schools and universities including Universitas Negeri Malang (UM) are not able to continue face-to-face meetings, thus online classes become an option to carry out. However, as our education system tends to adopt conventional system, moving to the online mode is challenging at all aspects. Therefore, this study is set out to explore the implementation of online learning. More particularly, the study looked at how students of English Language Education study program perceive the online classes they undertake during pandemic using WhatsApp as the primary medium of teaching and learning. By distributing an online survey and analyzing the data using a descriptive quantitative approach, the result of this study showed that the students had positive responses towards online teaching and learning process via WhatsApp. However, the students still needed direct interaction, which involved affection from their teacher, which cannot be obtained through online classes. In conclusion, WhatsApp as a supplementary tool has been proven effective in substituting face-to-face learning activities, as perceived by students participated in this study. Keywords: online learning, perception, WhatsApp Abstrak: Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) telah mempengaruhi sistem pendidikan di seluruh dunia saat ini. Banyak sekolah dan universitas termasuk Universitas Negeri Malang (UM) tidak dapat melanjutkan pertemuan tatap muka, sehingga perkuliahan secara daring menjadi alternatif yang dipilih. Akan tetapi, oleh karena sistem pendidikan di Indonesia cenderung menggunakan sistem konvensional, perkuliahan daring menghadirkan berbagai tantangan. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini didesain untuk mencermati implementasi dari perkuliahan daring. Secara spesifik, penelitian ini meneliti persepsi mahasiswa Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris tentang pelaksanaan perkuliahan daring yang mereka telah jalani selama pandemi ini melalui media WhatsApp. Dengan menyebarkan angket dan menganalisa data secara kuantitatif deskriptif, hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa mahasiswa memiliki respon positif terhadap proses belajar mengajar daring melalui WhatsApp. Namun, tidak dapat dipungkiri bahwa mereka tetap membutuhkan interaksi langsung dengan dosen yang tidak dapat diperoleh melalui kelas daring ini. Dari penelitian ini dapat diambil kesimpulan bahwa WhatsApp sebagai media pendukung terbukti efektif dalam menggantikan kegiatan pembelajaran offline sebagaimana dipersepsikan oleh mahasiswa yang berpartisipasi dalam penelitian ini. Kata kunci: pembelajaran online, persepsi, WhatsApp

scholarly journals Impact of the COVID-19 in Tourism Industry in Nepal and Policy Recommendation

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-91
Author(s):  
Bishnu Prasad Khanal
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Foreign Currency ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Corona Virus

For the first time in history, almost all the domestic and international tourism destinations have restrictions for travel worldwide because of corona virus pandemic. Corona virus disease calls the COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing problem in more than 210 countries in the world. The purpose of this study is to find the tourism impact of COVID-19 in Nepal and purpose recommendations for the preparation of evidence based policy and strategies for further development of the tourism industry in Nepal. Secondary data used in this study were obtained from the ministry of tourism in Nepal and other various web sources and primary data were collected from the online survey and collected 52 samples. They are involved in the hospitality, education & consulting, travel & tours, adventure & expedition, trekking agencies, and government officials from national tourism originations. The study highlights that the tourism contribution in Nepal’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) as a significant sector that has a linkage with other sectors. Also, the Nepalese tourism industry is dependent on international factors and the Nepal tourism industry highly relies on foreign tourists and cancellation of the mountain climbing permits for the year 2020, affects the income of foreign currency as building the capacity of stakeholders and public-private partnership initiatives to promote and work together to develop and manage in future tourism fields. well as the local economy, the loss of thousands of jobs in the tourism sector and others sectors. Overall analyses suggest that building the capacity of stakeholders and public-private partnership initiatives to promote and work together to develop and manage in future tourism fields.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Using Blended Learning with Google Classroom and Zoom Media on Students' Understanding

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Wasti Reviandani
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Direct Interaction ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
The Impact

The teaching and learning process is the core of education. Everything that has been programmed will be carried out in the teaching and learning process where interaction and involvement is needed between educators and students with materials as the medium. Teaching activities at the strata 1 level involve educators called lecturers and students called students. In general, teaching activities are carried out offline, which involves direct interaction between lecturers and students. At the beginning of 2021, rumors began to appear that there was a global disaster of the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic, which initially Indonesia considered that the Corona virus was impossible to enter Indonesia. However, the development of the virus is so fast. Indonesia finally announced in early March 2021 as a country experiencing the impact of the global disaster due to the COVID -19 pandemic. This study wants to find out how effective it is to use blended learning by using google classroom and zoom to improve the understanding of FEB students at Muhammadiyah University of Gresik. This research is a quantitative research using causal clause relationship, using SPSS version 23.0 analysis tool. The results obtained from this study are that the Google Classroom and Zoom applications partially and simultaneously have a significant positive effect on student understanding.

MOOCs in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 58-77
Author(s):  
Harsh Vardhan Pant ◽  
Manoj Chandra Lohani ◽  
Jeetendra Pande
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
World Health ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Online Mode ◽  
Indian Higher Education ◽  
Reducing Costs ◽  
Health Organization

Online education has gained a lot of acceptance among the learners in the recent past. The advances in technology and changing demand from students and business as well as the possibility for reducing costs and generating income has led to a MOOC explosion. Over the last years, massive open online courses (MOOCs) have received a great deal of attention from the academic community, business, and the media, especially after the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 as a pandemic in March 2020. The pandemic has caused educational disruption across the globe. Educational institutes faced with the challenge of maintaining the continuity of learning and were almost forced to switch to the online mode. The seemingly simple and immediate solution is to conduct school remotely using online resources. The aim of this study is to investigate the current trends and prediction with respect to the adoption of MOOCs in the Indian higher education system and identify various influencing factors facilitating this adoption.

scholarly journals EFFECT OF COVID-19 ON SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES TO ADOPT ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
Sunayana Garg ◽  
Diwakar Aggarwal ◽  
Sushil Kumar Upadhyay ◽  
Gautam Kumar ◽  
Gulbir Singh
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Training System ◽  
School Students ◽  
Global Epidemic ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Teaching Learning

Purpose of Study: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), deals with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has instantly spread worldwide, leading to an episode of intense irresistible pneumonia. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a phenomenal change in educational teaching-learning framework globally. Other than financial and social effects, there is a difficulty in adopting new online education systems by stakeholders of academic institutions. Methodology: The review presented here is based on the platinum open access literature focusing on the adoption of the online education system during the current pandemic situation. This compilation of the findings is based on a systematic review published by the scholars of the relevant field of research targeted to opportunities and challenges in adopting ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and online teaching-learning pedagogy.  Main Findings: Specifically, school students need to deal with various sorts of ecological, electronic, and mental battles because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The whole education system from elementary to tertiary level has been imploded during the lockdown time of the COVID-19 in India and worldwide. The New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has been delivered by the recently renamed Ministry of Education. The approach has given another face to the Online Education System in India. Applications of this study: The finding of the current investigation is a portrayal of opportunities and challenges in receiving the online teaching-learning education system by the public and private educational institutions. It will help in the planning and development of strategies to handle the challenges and opportunities of e-learning during the current global epidemic. Novelty of the study: The authors endeavored to address the web-based learning and teaching in the school training system in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The capacity of offered resources in academic organization effectively changed conventional education into online schooling with the help of virtual classes and other urgent online gadgets in this reliably moving instructive scene.

scholarly journals Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Mental Health of Higher Education Stakeholders

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1036-1074
Author(s):  
Priyanka Verma
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Online Mode ◽  
The Government ◽  
Teachers And Parents

Abstract: During the time of covid-19 whole education system has shifted from offline mode to online mode which plays a vital role in the increasing stress, anxiety, depression and other mental problem among the students, teachers, and parents. Because they all are not familiar with the online education system. So in this scenario, we should know that how much they all are aware and capable to use different online tools and courses like swayam, Courera, edu, NPTEL, YouTube, etc with their economic condition, infrastructure, and mental health too. Are they able to continue their learning during this scenario? Due to lack of awareness they all are getting mentally disturbed. In this situation, they all need support from our government because for the present situation they were not prepared from earlier. A survey was conducted by us in Uttar Pradesh to analyze the effect of lockdown on students (age 15-35 years), teachers and parents (total 162 respondents) belongs from urban and rural areas through Google form during Sep – Oct month2020. So that most of the responses come from Uttar Pradesh and the city Lucknow. Through this survey we draw the different factors like not comfortable, privacy concerns, not aware, sleeping pattern, lazier, stressful, worried, eye problem, digital screens, burden of work, and disrespectful behavior which somewhere affect the mental health and behavior of the respondents. We have also taken response to rating online education system and examination at the likert scales 1(poor) — 5(excellent). This paper will help to know what the reasons behind the above mention factors are. We have find out the proportion of students, teachers, and parents who are facing different types of mental problems, and we are trying to show finding of the survey with the help of different graphs also. Keywords: Online higher education system, different factors affect mental health, the problem faces by the students, teachers, and parents, awareness about online courses, the suggestion for the government.

scholarly journals The Internationalization of Higher Education in Armenia Nowadays the Analysis of the Existing Problems

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1 (33)) ◽  
pp. 79-87
Author(s):  
Yevgine Aperyan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
International Standards ◽  
University Education ◽  
Internationalization Of Higher Education ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Higher Education System

Internationalization is a rapidly growing trend among the higher education system around the world. Academic and research institutions demonstrate a growing interest in the processes of internationalization of higher education, at the international, regional, national, and institutional levels. Internationalization and global engagement are becoming key trends in the development of national systems of education in Armenia and abroad. Numerous researchers have highlighted the problematics of internationalization of higher education associated with the cultural impact of university education, a synergy of humanitarian and natural sciences, intercultural communication, digital and blended learning, international credit and degree mobility, the introduction of international standards for measuring the quality of education defined by the Bologna Declaration. Although internationalization has become established in education at the international level, it should be realized that at the moment there is no single policy or strategy for the internationalization of the higher education system in Armenia, both at the regional and national levels. The lack of uniform strategy is in some way offset at the institutional level: the increasing number of Armenian higher education institutions have integrated internationalization, to varying degrees, in their mission and vision. It can be seen in the activities of the leading universities in Armenia. The global knowledge economy requires all universities to be the competitors for students, faculties, strategic partnerships, and research funding, as well as to prepare their graduates to be global professionals, scholars, highly demanded and competitive. Indicating the mechanism of the implementation of an international component into the existing curricula, programs, research, teaching, and learning processes may contribute to the understanding of the process of internationalization of higher education. Thus, more research is needed on the experience of Armenia and other countries in implementing the provisions of the Bologna process. The purpose of this article is to examine the theoretical and practical aspects of the internationalization process, identifying some challenges and obstacles for the Armenian higher education system and presenting possible ways of overcoming them.

scholarly journals PENINGKATAN KAPASITAS MAHASISWI ANGKATAN 2019 PG PAUD FIP UNESA DALAM PEMBUATAN POWERPOINT KREATIF UNTUK ANAK

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Sri Widayati ◽  
Mallevi Agustin Ningrum ◽  
Sri Setyowati ◽  
Rohmatul Maulidiya
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Training Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Creative Power ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Circular Letter ◽  
Power Point

<p><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p><em>Kurangnya pemahaman mahasiswi PG PAUD FIP Unesa angkatan 2019 mengenai pembuatan power point kreatif untuk anak usia dini dan keadaan saat ini terkait dengan adanya pandemiCOVID di Indonesia yang kian hari kiat meningkat menandakan masih kurangnya informasi yang di terima oleh masyarakat secara luas mengenai beragam informasi mengenai COVID. Selain itu proses kegiatan belajar mengajar merujuk pada Surat Edaran Mendikbud Nomor 3 Tahun 2020 tentang Pencegahan COVID-19 pada Satuan Pendidikan, dan Nomor 36962/MPK A/HK/2020 tentang pembelajaran secara daring dalam rangka pencegahan penyebaran Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) membuat perlu diadakannya pelatihan pembuatan PowerPoint kreatif berbasis COVID-19 kepada mahasiswi PG PAUD angkatan 2019 FIP UNESA. Tujuan lain dari pelatihan ini akan membantu untuk menyebarluaskan informasi mengenai berbagai hal mengenai covid-19 terutama mengenai apa itu covid-19, bagaimana cara mencegah, apa saja yang dapat dilakukan oleh anak ketika berada di rumah. Serta meningkatkan pemahaman dan kemampuan mahasiswi untuk membuat power point yang sesuai dengan karakteristik anak (bentuk dan ukuran huruf, gambar, transisi, efek huruf dan gambar). Pelatihan berlangsung pada tanggal 29 April 2020 hingga 6 Mei 2020 dengan daring meneggunakan aplikasi WhatsApp. Metode yang digunakan dalam kegiatan pelatihan ini yaitu (1) diskusi; (2) tanya jawab; dan (3) pembimbingan PowerPoint secara langsung. Hasil pelatihan ini menunjukkan adanya peningkatkan pemahaman dan kemampuan mahasiswi dalam membuat power point kreatif yang sesuai untuk anak usia dini.</em></p><p><strong>Kata Kunci: <em>PowerPoint Kreatif, Covid-19, Mahasiswi PG PAUD</em></strong></p><p><em><br /></em></p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p><em>The lack of understanding of PG PAUD FIP Unesa students in 2019 regarding the creation of creative power points for young children and the current situation related to the existence of the Covid pandemic in Indonesia which is increasingly increasing tips indicates that there is still a lack of information received by the public at large about a variety of information about COVID . Also Besides, the process of teaching and learning activities refer to the Minister of Education and Culture Circular Letter No. 3 of 2020 concerning Prevention of COVID-19 in Education Units, and Number 36962 / MPK A / HK / 2020 concerning Online Learning in the Context of Preventing Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) make it necessary to hold training on making COVID-19-based creative power points for students of PG PAUD 2019 FIP Unesa. Another purpose of this training will help to disseminate information about various things about co-19, especially about what is co-19, how to prevent, what can be done by children when at home. And improve students' understanding and ability to make power points that are appropriate to the characteristics of the child (shape and size of letters, images, transitions, letter, and picture effects). The training took place on April 29, 2020, until May 6, 2020, with online using the WhatsApp application. The methods used in this training activity are (1) Discussion; (2) question and answer; and (3) direct PowerPoint guidance. The results of this training show there is an increase in students' understanding and ability to create creative power points that are suitable for early childhood.</em></p><p><strong>Keywords: <em>Creative Power Point, COVID-19, PG PAUD Students</em></strong></p>

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