scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Medical Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Medical educators in South Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-38
Author(s):  
Rano Mal Piryani ◽  
Suneel Piryani ◽  
Shomeeta Piryani ◽  
P. Ravi Shankar ◽  
Dhana Ratna Shakya
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
World Health ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The World ◽  
Medical Educators ◽  
Teaching Learning

Corona virus disease-19 (COVID-19) is an acute highly infectious disease primarily involving the respiratory system. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. No proven efficacious drug and no vaccine are available so far for treatment or prophylaxis of COVID-19. Social distancing has been one of the major measures adopted to prevent spread of the disease. Educational institutions have been shut down all over the world for the safety of both students and communities. Social distancing measures hamper students from assembling in learning labs, lecture halls, or small-group rooms and interacting in person. The major response to the pandemic has been to try to move both teaching-learning and assessment online. Schools have also tried to move clinical learning and teaching communication skills online using standardized patients and facilitators. Online education and assessment are not without their challenges, more so in South Asia. Online teaching learning has been a challenge for both faculty members and students, in varying extent. With online learning environments, supervision and support by the teacher may be less and students should have well developed self-regulated learning skills. These challenges have also offered several opportunities, some general to educators, some relatively specific to medical educators, some global in perspective and some local ones. The pandemic offers both educators and students the insight into: how health problems particularly infectious diseases can affect human life and livelihood; and understanding how people respond to it. The pandemic has forced changes in education methods, modality and process, which though may demand extra effort initially, provides teacher, faculty and facilitator the impetus to keep pace with current trends InTechnology. It has offered an opportunity to move to online learning and interaction and use virtual platforms for e-conference, webinars, podcasts, e-class/ e-lectures etc. Pandemic has brought very rapid changes in educational approaches in South Asia, which otherwise would have taken 5-10 years under normal circumstances.

scholarly journals Online Learning: A Panacea in the Time of COVID-19 Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shivangi Dhawan
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
World Health ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Online Mode ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Methods Of Learning ◽  
Teaching Learning

Educational institutions (schools, colleges, and universities) in India are currently based only on traditional methods of learning, that is, they follow the traditional set up of face-to-face lectures in a classroom. Although many academic units have also started blended learning, still a lot of them are stuck with old procedures. The sudden outbreak of a deadly disease called Covid-19 caused by a Corona Virus (SARS-CoV-2) shook the entire world. The World Health Organization declared it as a pandemic. This situation challenged the education system across the world and forced educators to shift to an online mode of teaching overnight. Many academic institutions that were earlier reluctant to change their traditional pedagogical approach had no option but to shift entirely to online teaching–learning. The article includes the importance of online learning and Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, & Challenges (SWOC) analysis of e-learning modes in the time of crisis. This article also put some light on the growth of EdTech Start-ups during the time of pandemic and natural disasters and includes suggestions for academic institutions of how to deal with challenges associated with online learning.

scholarly journals THE REALIZATION OF IMPOLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY STUDENTS IN ENGLISH ONLINE LEARNING THROUGH ZOOM DURING PANDEMIC COVID-19

2022 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Suchroni . Panjaitan ◽  
Sumarsih . Sumarsih ◽  
Siti Aisyah Ginting
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
World Health ◽  
Online Teaching And Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Main Activity ◽  
Health Organization

Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) was detected in China in December 2019, spread throughout the world within a few months and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11th March 2020. It also has hit Indonesia since March 2020. It affects 90.2% of students worldwide, in which 1.57 billion students are absent from school and 191 countries including Indonesia. Unfortunately, the observation found that the students often say impolite language, such as mock their friends, change their friends’ name, and have high intonation when they were uttering their opinion during online teaching and learning process through Zoom. It is very serious problem because impoliteness happened during the main activity. The objective of the study was to find out the realizations of impoliteness strategies used by students in English online learning through Zoom during pandemic Covid-19. The study was descriptive qualitative. The subject of the study was VII grade of SMP Ar-Rahman Percut. The data of the study was impoliteness clauses which are recorded from the students’ interaction. The finding of the study, there were eight realizations of impoliteness strategies found in this study, they are be disinterested, unconcerned, unsympathetic; use inappropriate identity marker; use obscure or secretive language; seek disagreement; use taboo words; call the other name; frighten; and condescend, scorn or ridicule. Then, there were three additional realizations, they are employing insincere; direct speech, clear, unambiguous; and invade the other’s space. Keywords: Impoliteness, Students in English Online Learning, Zoom, Covid-19

scholarly journals Online Education in the Time of COVID-19 Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 70-77
Author(s):  
Keshav Dahiya ◽  
Naman Malhotra ◽  
Vaibhav Bachhwal ◽  
Neha Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
World Health ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Learning Modalities ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Teaching Modality

Prior to the pandemic, Indian educational institutions relied primarily on traditional means of instruction, like as face-to-face lectures in a classroom. Many academic units have already begun to mix learning throughout the pandemic, but many still maintain archaic traditions. The rapid outbreak of a lethal disease known as Covid-19 due to the SARS-CoV-2 Corona Virus startled the whole world. It was labeled a pandemic by the World Health Organization. This has challenged the worldwide education system and prompted educators to move to an online teaching modality overnight. Many schools, which were previously reluctant to adapt their traditional approach to pedagogy, were unable to move totally to online instruction. The paper discusses the importance of online learning and of e-learning modalities analysis in times of crisis, including strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges (SWOC). This article also highlights the emergence of EdTech startups during pandemics and provides ideas for academic institutions to tackle online learning issues.

scholarly journals The challenges of distance learning in countries undergoing transition during the COVID-19 pandemic - case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 196-207
Author(s):  
Naser Rugova ◽  
Elmire Nikci – Rexha ◽  
Elmi Berisha ◽  
Fallanza Beka Bajrami
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
World Health ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
First Case ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

Virtual learning, also known as online learning or distance learning has transformed the face of the education system for quite some time. Now, it is rapidly becoming an integral aspect and a common tool, in the broader aspect of higher education, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to providing an alternative method of learning in the digital age, online learning offers students the opportunity to learn new skills or improve existing ones.  On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Following the speed with which COVID-19 spread to all parts of the world and to curb the spread of the disease, most governments around the world, including the Republic of Kosovo, authorized unprecedented social control measures to stop this disease unknown. These measures, among others, required social distancing and temporary physical closure of educational institutions. The first case of COVID 19 in Kosovo was identified on March 13, 2020, social distancing - full closure came into force on March 15, while UBT Higher Education Institution started online learning on March 16, 2020, the first in Kosovo and possibly in the Western Balkans. This teaching-learning process was a novelty for Kosovo and was applied for the first time. Objective: The main objective of the current survey was to study the impact of E-learning on students' academic performance and their evaluations of this form of teaching in general. The purpose of this paper is to reflect as professionally as possible the organization of distance learning, the effects on the teaching and learning process as well as the form and level of communication and teacher-student relations in this process which was a novelty for Kosovo and UBT as one of the largest Private Colleges in the region.

scholarly journals Corona Virus and India: Economic and Sectorial Implications

2020 ◽  
pp. 156-163
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Consumer Electronics ◽  
World Health ◽  
Shipping Industry ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
New Public Health ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The corona virus outbreak labeled as Pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020, is a new public health crises threatening the world with the emergence. It is caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is believed that the virus originated in bats and was transmitted to humans in Wuhan, Hubei province, China in December 2019. There have been around 15, 33,541 reported cases of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-2019) and around 90,000 reported deaths as on 09/04/2020. The only methods to prevent the disease are quarantining and social distancing. While the disease may be prevented by quarantining and social distancing but it will result in the stoppage of various activities and thereby impacting the economy as whole. The study covers the impact of Corona Virus on Health care Sector, Pharmaceutical sector, Aviation sector, Railways, Ecommerce sector, Poultry sector, Automobile sector, Tourism sector, Hospitality, Real Estate, Sports Activities Consumer electronics, FMCG sector, Shipping industry, TV and Film Industry, Education sector, Stock Market and Banking Sector. Having considered the implications of the pandemic, the study also recommends the socio-economic and political measures to combat the situation that would help us revive in the post Covid-19 World.

scholarly journals SOME ISSUES ON ORGANIZATION OF EDUCATIONAL PROCESS IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS DURING PANDEMIC

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-238
Author(s):  
A. M. Yelinska
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
The World

The endemic coronavirus (COVID-19) is growing exponentially around the world. The prevalence of the new coronavirus COVID-19 around the world has led to global changes in society, various organizations, and educational institutions. Primary school and university populations appear to be at a lower mortality risk than older adults, but precautions are still needed in a pandemic called "social distance" to reduce interpersonal contact and thereby minimize transmission of the virus. Approximately 264 million children and adolescents are out of school (UNESCO, 2017), and the pandemic has further exacerbated the situation. The more the pandemic grows, the more schools, colleges and universities are closed, contributing to the transition to online learning. The time has come to rethink and rebuild our education system based on the current situation. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis, online education has been a pedagogical breakthrough from a traditional method to a more modern approach to teaching and learning, from class to Zoom, from personal to virtual, from seminars to webinars. Around the world, the entire education system, from primary to tertiary, was destroyed during the isolation of the new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The pandemic has prompted a re-examination of the main points of online learning in education, as well as how existing educational resources can help transform formal education online through virtual classrooms and other online resources. The process of online teaching-learning modes is perceived by teachers and students in different ways, sometimes causing difficulties and controversy in the effectiveness of their use.

scholarly journals Teaching Translation during COVID-19 Outbreak: Challenges and Discoveries

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafat Y. Alwazna
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
Experience Good ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Almost All

The present paper addresses translation teaching during the COVID-19 outbreak, seeking to discover the challenges translation teachers encounter in online education and the solutions available to resolve them. Its importance springs from the fact that teaching almost all over the world had to depend on distant teaching/learning through electronic platforms to face the pandemic of COVID-19. Therefore, the present study seeks to discover the challenges encountered in online translation teaching and the proposed solutions to overcome them. It intends to answer the following questions: how does teaching translation during the COVID-19 outbreak look like? What are the challenges encountered in teaching translation during the COVID-19 outbreak? What are the discoveries found in teaching translation during the COVID-19 outbreak that may serve as advantages/solutions for the challenges faced? The paper uses a comprehensive questionnaire containing closed-ended and open-ended questions to elicit quantitative and qualitative data from sixty translation teachers. The data shows that 40% of the participants evaluate their online translation teaching experience during the COVID-19 outbreak as enjoyable. In contrast, no participant has assessed their online translation teaching experience as not good. About 23.33% of the participants consider their online translation teaching experience very good, and the same percentage applies to those who evaluate their online translation teaching experience as good to some extent. Thus, around 13.33% of the participants consider their online translation teaching experience good. The data also indicates that most participants have encountered obstacles in online teaching and have concurrently proposed solutions to resolve them.

scholarly journals Investigation and Analysis of College Students’ Online Learning Behavior in the Post-epidemic Era—Take Suqian College as an Example

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. p67
Author(s):  
Luo Youhao ◽  
Yang Jianxiang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Epidemic Period ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning

The COVID-19 epidemic broke out in the world in 2020. With the continuous efforts of people all over the world for a year, the development trend of the epidemic was gradually restrained, and countries began to enter the post-epidemic period one after another. With the students from all over the country returning to school gradually, how to strengthen the normal study of young college students and how to restore the normal teaching order in schools is a huge challenge to both schools and students during this special period of epidemic prevention and control. This paper starts with the phenomenon that the learning effect of online education for college students in Suqian University is not ideal, and carries out on-the-spot questionnaire survey to explore the problem. According to the research, some students have cultivated their good learning habits in the home-school environment, but there are still some problems, such as the majority of students lack of inertial thinking of online learning, lack of attention to online learning and unable to find a suitable mixed online teaching model. Schools should select appropriate teaching models to guide students to participate in online learning. Students should also actively cooperate with teachers to carry out educational work, restrain themselves and devote themselves to study within the stipulated time. Finally, I hope that this paper can effectively promote the development of online e-learning by putting forward some countermeasures and suggestions for the construction of high-quality e-learning model in schools.

scholarly journals Teaching Translation during COVID-19 Outbreak: Challenges and Discoveries

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 86-102
Author(s):  
Rafat Y. Alwazna
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
Experience Good ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Almost All

The present paper addresses translation teaching during the COVID-19 outbreak, seeking to discover the challenges translation teachers encounter in online education and the solutions available to resolve them. Its importance springs from the fact that teaching almost all over the world had to depend on distant teaching/learning through electronic platforms to face the pandemic of COVID-19. Therefore, the present study seeks to discover the challenges encountered in online translation teaching and the proposed solutions to overcome them. It intends to answer the following questions: how does teaching translation during the COVID-19 outbreak look like? What are the challenges encountered in teaching translation during the COVID-19 outbreak? What are the discoveries found in teaching translation during the COVID-19 outbreak that may serve as advantages/solutions for the challenges faced? The paper uses a comprehensive questionnaire containing closed-ended and open-ended questions to elicit quantitative and qualitative data from sixty translation teachers. The data shows that 40% of the participants evaluate their online translation teaching experience during the COVID-19 outbreak as enjoyable. In contrast, no participant has assessed their online translation teaching experience as not good. About 23.33% of the participants consider their online translation teaching experience very good, and the same percentage applies to those who evaluate their online translation teaching experience as good to some extent. Thus, around 13.33% of the participants consider their online translation teaching experience good. The data also indicates that most participants have encountered obstacles in online teaching and have concurrently proposed solutions to resolve them.

scholarly journals A Study on Mixed Mode of Learning Approach Post Covid-19: A Flexible Learning Experience

2021 ◽  
pp. 198-201
Author(s):  
Dr. Jayendrasinh Jadav ◽  
Krishna Kulin Trivedi
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Mixed Mode ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Face Mask ◽  
World Health ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Teaching Learning

The sudden outbreak of corona virus disease in the whole world which is a fast-transmitted communicable respiratory disease which has been declared as the pandemic by the world health organization popularly known in short as WHO. To protect oneself from the infection one has to wear face mask, wash the hands at least for 20 seconds with soap/ sanitizer, avoid touching of nose/eyes/mouth and maintain social distancing. Due to this fast transmission of the corona virus disease lockdown was imposed where only certain emergency services, medical services, essentials like fruits, vegetables. milk, petrol etc. were made available. Thus, in this worldwide global pandemic situation to continue with academic calendar and carry out the teaching learning process, online learning was the best option. Due to the significant demand and acceptance of online learning, the mixed mode of learning popularly known as Blended learning or hybrid learning is a flexible and customizable learning experience.

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