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Paradigmatic Shift in the Education System in a Time of COVID 19

Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences

The rapid spread of COVID-19 worldwide in 2019-2020 has had a great impact on educational institutes. Global closure of educational institutions to maintain social distancing and isolation has led to a gap in learning and development. Prolonged closures can lead to interrupted learning, parents' unpreparedness for distance learning, and home schooling, gaps in childcare, unequal access to digital learning portals, increased pressure on education systems that remain open, and probable chances of a rise in dropout rates and social isolation. Most institutions, globally, in the affected areas, are looking for stopgap solutions to carry on teaching, and the factor significantly affecting the quality of learning is the level and quality of digital access. Digitalization being big evolutionary step, will reshape the entire education system in future. Digitalization has changed the course of distance learning leading to online computer-based learning. COVID 19 pandemic brought about a new paradigmatic shift in learning from frontal education system to online digital learning, thus bringing about a truly new learning experience. In response to the rapid spread of COVID-19, preventive measures such as social-distancing and self-isolation have resulted in the global closure of educational institutions. (1) Since educational institutes are hubs of social activity and human interaction, their closure has led to a lack of social contact among children and youth, which is essential to learning and development. School closures are critical social distancing tools to mitigate the spread of the disease and avoid an increase of cases, thus reducing the strain on health services. While closures of educational institutes appear as a logical solution to achieve social distancing within communities, prolonged closures tend to produce a negative impact on most students, such as interrupted learning, parents unpreparedness for distance learning and home schooling, gaps in childcare, unequal access to digital learning portals, increased pressure on education systems that remain open, and a probable chance of a rise in dropout rates and social isolation.

The New Era of Education amidst COVID-19 Lockdown

https://www.ijrrjournal.com/IJRR\_Vol.8\_Issue.7\_July2021/IJRR-Abstract025.html, 2021

Novel Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has immensely affected each and every aspect of human life. Due to spreading of the virus worldwide 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 crores 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 numbers of responses have been recorded.

A Literature Review on Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Teaching and Learning

Higher Education for the Future

The COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption of education systems in human history, affecting nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 200 countries. Closures of schools, institutions and other learning spaces have impacted more than 94% of the world’s student population. This has brought far-reaching changes in all aspects of our lives. Social distancing and restrictive movement policies have significantly disturbed traditional educational practices. Reopening of schools after relaxation of restriction is another challenge with many new standard operating procedures put in place. Within a short span of the COVID-19 pandemic, many researchers have shared their works on teaching and learning in different ways. Several schools, colleges and universities have discontinued face-to-face teachings. There is a fear of losing 2020 academic year or even more in the coming future. The need of the hour is to innovate and implement alternative educational system and assessment strat...

Teaching and Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Current Issues in Comparative Education

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Different countries adopted measures to stop the virus's spread and support the various sectors impacted by the emergency, including public and private schooling. Whereas the pandemic presented a significant disruption to teaching and learning, the government's strategies directly affected school system structures, highlighting various inequalities in education provision across the globe. The pandemic has also impacted students, teachers, and families differently. From experiencing the virus or the illness of a loved one and feeling anxiety or fear, to abrupt school shutdowns and food insecurity, school communities felt dire consequences in the new context marked by COVID-19. Moreover, the emergency introduced further educational challenges, such as the abrupt movement of school practices to virtual platforms and unequal access to Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for learning purposes. Unexpected times called for creative problem-solving: educators, caregivers, and policymakers started developing solutions to tackle the inequalities faced by students, schools, teachers, and families and alleviate the hurdles associated with the pandemic. Considering a world of disruption and possibilities, Current Issues in Comparative Education welcomed submissions on the challenges and opportunities faced by the school community during the COVID-19 and amidst educational inequalities. The 2022 Special Issue assesses how the pandemic has affected schooling and how different individuals, governments, and organizations have responded to the crisis since 2020. The Special Issue is organized into three major sections. In the first one, authors present articles that discuss various perspectives on how the pandemic has affected learning and working from home, graduate students' mental health, and distance and inclusive learning. The discussions also highlight that the disruption resulting from COVID-19 evinced weaknesses already existing in schooling systems and, at the same time, signified an opportunity to reimagine teaching and learning practices. Offering an analysis based on quantitative and qualitative approaches, Frank O. Ely,

Education in the Time of Covid-19: How Teacher and Students are Coping

The novel corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19), originated in Wuhan city of China, has spread rapidly around the world, sending billions of people into lockdown. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus epidemic a pandemic. In light of rising concern about the current COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of universities across the world have either postponed or canceled all campus events such as workshops, conferences, sports and other activities. Universities are taking intensive measures to prevent and protect all students and teachers and other staffs from highly infectious disease. Faculty members are already in the process of transitioning to online teaching platforms.

TEACHING AND LEARNING IN COVID-19 PANDEMIC: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Research and Reflections on Education, 2022

COVID-19 Pandemic has significantly reformed the educational system nationwide. Significant changes have been enhanced by the COVID-19 crisis in the teaching and Learning process. The conventional methods of teaching and learning have completely changed to entirely online. One of the first areas where these limitations had a big effect was the way teaching and learning were organized, especially how teaching and evaluation approaches were used. Some educational institutions have been able to implement online teaching-learning techniques and the rest of the institutions have failed. Besides this lack of online learning options has forced low-income private and public schools to shut down entirely. Due to the unexploited possibilities for learning, students faced subjected to social and economic hardships. During this time, they no longer have access to nourishing meals. Therefore, the main motive of the paper is to examine the "challenges and opportunities" that the teaching community faced during the Covid-19 pandemic.

IJERT-Impact of Covid19 on Education System

International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 2021

https://www.ijert.org/impact-of-covid19-on-education-system https://www.ijert.org/research/impact-of-covid19-on-education-system-IJERTV10IS060096.pdf The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the educational system worldwide, leading to the near-total closures of schools, universities and colleges. Most governments around the world decide to have temporarily closed educational institutions in an attempt to reduce the spread of COVID19. The primary purpose of the intended paper is to highlight the impact of COVID 19 pandemic on the global education system. The paper will also provide an analytic description of the student experience and lessons learnt from the impact of the pandemic on the changing teaching and learning landscape, and the diffusion and adoption of elearning in teacher education among few countries like India, United States Of America, Dubai, Bangladesh and Indonesia. School closures impact not only students, teachers, and families, But have far-reaching economic and societal consequences. In response to school closures, UNESCO recommended the use of distance learning programmes and open educational applications and platforms that schools and teachers can use to reach learners remotely and limit the disruption of education.