The Dawn for a New Era for Higher Education (original) (raw)
The Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education: Challenges and Issues
COVID-19 and Higher Education in the Global Context: Exploring Contemporary Issues and Challenges, 2021
This chapter gives an overview of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in higher education and how colleges and universities have changed and adjusted along with new technology and challenges. In this book, we have tried to respond to the growing need for new insights and perspectives to improve higher education policy and practice in the era of COVID-19. The need to understand the impact of COVID-19 on higher education is more urgent as institutions seek to innovate and adapt during times of uncertainty.
Pandemic, disruption and adjustment in higher education., 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has destabilised higher education systems globally, nationally and locally. At present, while long-term ramifications of this emergency are unclear, early and ongoing responses have sought to avert COVID-induced institutional collapse. Higher education systems are seeking to return to business-as-usual, while developing disruption-resilient responses by embracing rapid decision-making, technology-enabled learning, and flexible student admissions. At the same time, they are reimagining internationalization. This chapter provides a diagnostic lens through which to view how higher education systems and institutions have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in industrialised (Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and developing (Chile, India and South Africa) economies. The study also examines how higher education stakeholders might better prepare for future crisis situations. In particular, a range of diagnostic indicators is proposed and evidenced to highlight how stakeholders might monitor institutional and sector-wide vulnerabilities and gaps in coverage at pre-crisis and post-crisis stages. The analysis closes with a presentation and discussion of indicators spanning system geopolitics and jurisdictions, system regulation, teaching and learning, research, pathways, governance and leadership, infrastructure, human resources and financing. See: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004512672\_002
Impact of the COVID-19 on Higher Education
Information Technology Trends for a Global and Interdisciplinary Research Community
The COVID-19 outbreak has a considerable impact on all business domains worldwide, almost with negative consequences. The digital transformation was already a requirement for all governments and institutions that this pandemic has accelerated to solve the confinement and the limitations to work and share the same spaces. Face-to-face higher education institutions moved towards an urgent and unplanned online teaching. After having closed one of the processes that has had the most significant impact on universities, the time has come to reflect and draw conclusions that will serve to face these institutions' future. A crisis always represents risks but also opportunities to change from a disruptive situation. This chapter reflects universities' futures from a strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats approach with the perspective of the experiences lived during the end of the 2019-2020 academic year by some face-to-face universities in Spain.
What COVID-19 does to our Universities
University of Bologna Law Review, 2021
No mechanical means, however expeditous, no materialism, however triumphant, can eradicate the day break we experience when we have understood a Master. 1 Across the globe, COVID-19 is affecting multiple dimensions of our lives, ranging from the most existential aspects to the more mundane ones. In this brief article, I wish to reflect upon the impact the pandemic has on our Universities. Let me stress from the outset that I do not intend to downplay the terrible losses people all over the world have suffered. Nor do I wish to discuss the proportionality of the protective measures imposed by the governments, including those taken regarding research and teaching activities on University campuses. What I do want to address, however, is that COVID-19 currently
2023
As has been well established, the COVID-19 pandemic impacted higher education systems and institutions globally in numerous ways. At the systemic level, government health directives resulted in campus closures, social distancing, and vaccination regimes, while border control policy changes interrupted international flows. At the institutional level, higher education institutions optimised online modes and modalities for teaching, assessment, and student support; innovated to accommodate interruptions to research and professional activities; fast-tracked decision-making; and restructured staffing profiles and budgets. While the impacts of pandemic-induced changes will reverberate over forthcoming years, they also reveal lessons that can be used to inform preparations for future disruptions to higher education. This presentation will outline the Higher Education in Emergencies Domains (HEED) framework (Leihy et al, 2022), developed from reviews of the literature relating to higher education-related responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Analysis of this literature, beginning from March 2020, revealed nine, inter-related domains and corresponding domain indicators. These domains are: geopolitics and jurisdictions; system regulation; financing; infrastructure; teaching and learning; research and research training; pathways and portals in and out; governance and leadership; and human resources. To support the work of higher education stakeholders preparing for an increasingly uncertain future, these domains can be considered alongside a Response-Recovery-Prevention-Preparation (RRPP) risk management cycle. The inclusion of this cycle enables higher education stakeholders to monitor decisions made against the nine domains and domain indicators across risk management phases. In the shorter term, this conceptualisation of the HEED framework will enable higher education stakeholders to review the various ways in which systems and institutions are recovering from the pandemic. More broadly, reflecting on the ways systems and institutions responded to, and recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, the HEED framework may be used by higher education stakeholders to conceptualise comprehensive preparations for future disruptions to higher education.
Covid-19 Pandemic and Possible Trends for the Future of Higher Education: A Review
COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the abrupt closure of higher education institutions globally. The pandemic disrupted teaching, research, and community service in higher education resulting in a loss in revenue streams and human resources. To mitigate disruption on the academic calendar, institutions leveraged Information Communication Technology (ICT) to deliver administrative services and emergency remote teaching. A new equilibrium of disrupted classes with undisrupted learning through virtual platforms emerged. Some amplified challenges in the new norm include unreliable internet connectivity, access to ICT infrastructure, and preparedness for online pedagogy. Other difficulties include online delivery of science, technology, mathematics, practicals, and quality assurance. Thus, inequalities have been magnified between learners, institutions, and countries in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a desktop review, this paper explores possible influences of the pandemic on the future of higher education. The study ultimately contends progressive uptake of blended learning as the new frontier in higher education. Institutions require capacity building on online pedagogy, greater investment in ICT infrastructure, and a holistic e-learning quality assurance framework that infuses achievement of desired learning outcomes with Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A paradigm shift is expected towards the entrepreneurial university, institutional mergers, and strategic planning that incorporates disaster management.
New Directions in Higher Education in the Post COVID-19 Era-Global Perspective
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education, Humanities, Health and Agriculture, ICEHHA 2021, 3-4 June 2021, Ruteng, Flores, Indonesia, 2021
Since last two years higher education institutions [HEI] have been trying to answer following two questions. What features the universities of the future will have? What should be done by professors, administrative staff and university leadership to be prepared for the future? Various educational organizations are under the process of evolving and adapting newer trends of knowledge dissemination. HEIs are under opinion to adopt blended learning, flipped classroom, and many other technology-driven changes in teaching and learning brought by the COVID pandemic. Faculty and staff are getting acquainted with digital learning permanently, as they will be forced to reconstruct their academic programs for skill development and rapid employment. Universities will become GREEN and more aware of health and hygiene issues. Universities will be forced to do more with less revenue. These are the emerging issues and challenges faced by all higher education institutions. This paper is an attempt to redefine few higher education notions in detail.
COVID-19 poses a serious threat to higher education
University world news, 2020
From online learning inequities to economic disaster, COVID-19 presents severe challenges to the African higher education system and could seriously impact future government support for the sector, but it could also bring about much-needed changes with regard to distance learning.
Renewed Trends in Higher Education Following COVID-19
2021
The world in general and the organizations in particular has been changed significantly because of Covid-19 pandemic. The higher education institutions haven’t been an exception. The new challenge has triggered a worldwide shift towards online learning and teaching. There is a question of whether the current situation will lead to the overall transformation of higher education institutions to online, digital or blended one. This paper presents the systematic review of official reports where the new trends concept is used in higher education context. The primary goal of this paper is to establish understanding of already listed trends and directions and to contribute to the discussion of a digital transformation of higher education institutions following Covid-19 pandemic for effective teaching and learning. The paper is based on the theoretical research, including literature and official reports review in the context of transformation of higher education following Covid-19. As prima...
COVID-19 Pandemic and Possible Trends Into the Future of Higher Education: A Review
Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2021
COVID-19 virus pandemic resulted to abrupt closure of higher education institutions globally as a strategy to manage its spread. This has extensively impacted on the core functions of higher education which include teaching, research and community service. Through a desktop review of relevant literature, the study explored the impacts, mitigation measures adopted, emerging challenges and the future of higher education in the context of COVID-19. The pandemic disrupted the academic calendar, research activities, displaced students, and there has been loss in revenue streams and human resources. It is likely to affect sustainability of local and international higher education. Higher education institutions responded by leveraging the use Information Communication technology (ICT) to minimize disruptions. Challenges experienced include unreliable internet connectivity and ICT infrastructure, equity in access to remote teaching and learning, staff and students’ readiness, assessment of ...
The impact of Covid-19 on higher education
Horizonti. Serija A. Opštestveni i humanistički nauki, 2021
The scale of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in the 21st century. One of the largest shocks related to the COVID-19 crisis was not only the lethality of the virus itself, but also the chaotic and ad hoc response to it from so many sectors of society. When it became clear in early March 2020 that COVID-19 was spreading rapidly on a global scale, most governments began shutting down businesses, schools, and universities. Many higher education institutions switched to online classes after only a few days of preparation. Many have struggled to decide how to assess student learning remotely, whether to postpone or cancel final exams. A big concern for many higher education institutions has been to avoid increased cheating and plagiarism during online examinations. How higher education institutions will move forward after the pandemic? Will universities return to a "business as usual" or, will use this disruption to transform the education?
6 COVID-19 Crisis and the Future of Higher Education
The chapter provides an understanding of the ways COVID-19 is affecting higher education and advances practical strategies for managing the challenges caused by the pandemic. To understand the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education, it is prudent to understand the context within which the institutions of higher learning operate. It also offers an overview of the education system in Kenya, followed by a situation analysis. It then explores how COVID-19 is affecting and shaping the future of higher education and based on literature, presents the strategies to manage the effects of the pandemic.
Is the Pandemic Leading to a Paradigm Shift in Higher Education?
The Promise of Higher Education
Indoor gatherings of many people are high-risk sites for the spread of COVID-19; this includes schools, colleges and university campuses. This evolving situation will not only be vastly disruptive but will also lead to a paradigm shift in higher education institutions (HEI).
Challenges and Opportunities in a Local College in Time of COVID-19 Pandemic
Studies in Humanities and Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges and opportunities to higher education institutions all over the world. This paper adds to the growing literature on new perspectives in education amidst the global pandemic. It discusses challenges and opportunities in the context of a local higher education institution. Inputs from teaching and non-teaching personnel were considered. Documentary analysis of proposed transition plans and actions plans from the different departments of the college was made. Recommendations to address these challenges were presented, which served as a basis in the formulation of a transition program in upgrading/sustaining quality education in a local college attuned to the needs of the times.
COVID-19 Strikes U.S. Higher Education
Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2021
International students have contributed to the internationalization and diversification of U.S. higher education; yet, when COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus) struck, it became evident that this subset of the U.S. higher education student population was left unaccounted for and unprotected. This manuscript underscores the unimaginable damage and disruption that can occur when a global crisis of the highest magnitude meets under preparedness, pre-existing discrimination, and impulsive policy-making. It also highlights, for context, past crises and their impacts on international students, thus establishing a trend which places international students at the epicenter of the blow’s concomitant with crises of different nature. Moreover, the manuscript provides considerations higher education stakeholders should reflect upon, as well as the following implications for higher education institutions: a) Establish support systems, b) create a sustainable emergency/crisis relief fund, c) seek and ma...
Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Higher Education
Journal of Xidian University, 2020
COVID-19 outbreak has caused a downward spiral in the world economy and caused a huge impact on the higher education system. The sudden closure of campuses as a social distancing measure to prevent community transmission has shifted face-to-face classes to online learning systems. This has thrown the focus on utilising eLearning tools and platforms for effective student engagement which may have limitations of accessibility and affordability for many students. The pandemic has exposed the shortcomings of the current higher education system and the need for more training of educators in digital technology to adapt to the rapidly changing education climate of the world. In the post-pandemic situation, the use of eLearning and virtual education may become an integral part of the higher education system. The higher education institutions and universities need to plan the post-pandemic education and research strategies to ensure student learning outcomes and standards of educational quality.
Reimagining higher education during and post-COVID-19: Challenges and opportunities
Journal of Adult and Continuing Education
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has required faculty and students to adapt to an unprecedented challenge and rapidly transition from traditional face-to-face instruction to distance learning formats through virtual classrooms. While most campuses trained faculty to ensure quality and maintenance of the curriculum through virtual classrooms, less consideration has been given to training students, who face equal challenges in adapting to this abrupt change in the delivery of the curriculum. Few approaches have been developed for students to facilitate their involuntary transition to virtual classrooms and maintenance of appropriate online learning behaviours and etiquette. Presented here are a series of propositions to help to maintain and enhance the quality of college student engagement and activity in the virtual classroom. These guidelines are from one example of the State University of New York public educational system perspective, at the pandemic’s epicentre, while serving ...
COVID-19 and Higher Education in the Global Context: Exploring Contemporary Issues and Challenges
STAR Scholars, 2021
COVID-19 and Higher Education in the Global Context: Exploring Contemporary Issues and Challenges addresses the lasting impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the higher education sector and offers insights that inform policy and practice. Framed in a global context, this timely book captures a wide variety of topics, including student mobility, global partnerships and collaboration, student health and wellbeing, enrollment management, employability, and graduate education. It is designed to serve as a resource for scholar-practitioners, policymakers, and university administrators as they reimagine their work of comparative and international higher education in times of crisis. The collection of chapters assembled in this volume calls for a critical reflection on the opportunities and challenges that have emerged as a result of the global pandemic, and provides as a basis for how tertiary education systems around the world can learn from past experiences and shared viewpoints as institutions recalibrate operations, innovate programs, and manage change on their respective campuses.