scholarly journals E-Learning challenge studying the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Learning Challenges ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
E Learning

The research is devoted to the study of modern e-learning challenges in the context of social distance, the analysis of learning experience, problems and opportunities associated with online learning. The research was carried out at the ‘Blinded for peer review’ and involved 300 graduate students. A qualitative method based on a two-step process was used in the study. The online learning challenges and opportunities were analyzed with due regard to pedagogical, social, and technological aspects. The results of the study demonstrated that online learning is an efficient tool for the development of Hard Skills while being less effective for the improvement of Soft Skills; they also allowed us to identify important aspects of professional personnel training which should be taken into account while developing a strategy for harmonizing on-campus and online education with the diversification of curricula by various pedagogical technologies and digital tools, as well as bringing social interactions into classroom activities.

E-learning challenge studying the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aida Kamysbayeva ◽  
Alexey Koryakov ◽  
Natalya Garnova ◽  
Sergey Glushkov ◽  
Svetlana Klimenkova
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
E Learning ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
Study Participants

PurposeThe COVID-19 crisis experience is shaping new guidelines for learning activities that need to be developed from an interdisciplinary and holistic perspective based on the analysis and assessment of potential impacts and social expectations.Design/methodology/approachThe research is devoted to the study of modern e-learning challenges in the context of social distance, the analysis of learning experience, problems and opportunities associated with online learning. The research was carried out at the “Blinded for peer review” and involved 300 graduate students. A qualitative method based on a two-step process was used in the study. The discussion allowed participants to discuss and compare personal learning experiences primarily related to the COVID-19 crisis.FindingsThe results of the study demonstrated that online learning is an efficient tool for the development of hard skills while being less effective for the improvement of soft skills; they also allowed us to identify important aspects of professional personnel training which should be taken into account while developing a strategy for harmonizing on-campus and online education with the diversification of curricula by various pedagogical technologies and digital tools, as well as bringing social interactions into classroom activities.Originality/valueDue to the fact that most study participants were technical and economic students, it was concluded that the e-learning format is an effective methodology for the development of technical and digital skills of students.

Dental students’ education in the era of COVID-19 pandemic: from reality to virtuality: lessons to be learnt. (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rola Alhabshneh ◽  
Anas Alibrahim ◽  
Tahani Abu-Alteen ◽  
Wiam Hamadah ◽  
Yousef Khader
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
New Era ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Educational Plan ◽  
Dental Procedures ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Comprehensive Search

BACKGROUND The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a major public health challenge for many countries around the world. The global lockdown of educational institutions is going to cause major disruption to students’ learning and cancellation of their yearly assessments. Dental students are particularly at risk, due to the possibility of aerosols produced in many dental procedures that were suggested as a way of transmission of the COVID-19 virus. Shifting to online learning is needed in this era. OBJECTIVE This article aims to review the online learning experience, the effectiveness of tele-dentistry and the importance of implementing dental virtual simulation in preclinical and clinical courses during pandemics. Some suggestions are also provided to widen communication and creativity in the education system. The limitations of online learning and suggested solutions are also discussed. METHODS Two independent investigators conducted an electronic comprehensive search of PubMed/MEDLINE for articles published between 2000 and 2020, using the following search terms: “online education”; “Tele-dentistry”; “Education during pandemics”; “Virtual dentistry”; “COVID-19 reshaping education”; and “Dental E-learning.” Studies were selected and classified as included or excluded based on the title and abstract of the articles by the 2 researchers, working independently. Articles included were published in English, related to dentistry and online education. Articles excluded were not published in English or related to conventional education. It was not possible to analyze included articles, therefore we decided to do narrative review only. Authors’ points of view and suggestions were also added to shed light on the online learning experience and understand its quality and effectiveness during pandemics. RESULTS : from 150 articles reviewed, only 30 articles were found to qualify for inclusion. All included articles discussed online education based on experience of authors and provided some suggestions so that online learning experience becomes more effective. All included articles found that online education is a useful tool to be invested at times of pandemics and that it needs to be empowered and improved by schools and universities. CONCLUSIONS Being successful in riding the wave will take dental learning and teaching into a new era. In the future, every dean and faculty member will understand that online education is not only a potential source for new revenue. Instead, online education will be recognized as an essential core to every educational plan for institutional resilience and academic continuity. CLINICALTRIAL None

scholarly journals The Use of e-Learning Course during the COVID-19: A Systems Thinking Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 2157-2160
Author(s):  
Chin-Yen Alice Liu
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
E Learning ◽  
National Emergency

In the era of theInternet, most educators have been supported by powerful tools ranging from e-books and e-learning sites to cloud services, and students’ learning environment has been a mix between traditional study (in class) and e-learning through some kind of online learning platform. Due to the uncertainty of the rapidly changing COVID-19 situation, all colleges and universities have to shutter their physical campuses and move their courses to remote and online formats hastily. This prompted many to wonder if all of the faculty are ready and qualified to teach online courses and/or if all of the students are ready to learn in the comprehensive online environment. If not, what ultimate impact will be to our higher education during this national emergency virus pandemic since there is no choice but depend on where they sit currently, not to mention the negative reviews and concerns regarding the online education. To make this transfer seamlessly and conflict mitigation, this paper applied systems thinking for an e-Learning course and proposed a flexible grading method for an e-learning environment, which will enhance students’ grades by allowing students to control their own study paces and the amount of efforts spent in the course, which can bring a successful online learning experience.

Dental students’ education in the era of COVID-19 pandemic: from reality to virtuality: lessons to be learnt. (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rola Alhabshneh Sr ◽  
Anas Alibrahim ◽  
Anas Alibrahim ◽  
Tahani Alteen ◽  
Wiam Hamadah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
New Era ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Educational Plan ◽  
Dental Procedures ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Comprehensive Search

BACKGROUND Background: The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a major public health challenge for many countries around the world. The global lockdown of educational institutions is going to cause major disruption to students’ learning and cancellation of their yearly assessments. Dental students are particularly at risk, due to the possibility of aerosols produced in many dental procedures that were suggested as a way of transmission of the COVID-19 virus. Shifting to online learning is needed in this era. OBJECTIVE This article aims to review the online learning experience, the effectiveness of tele-dentistry and the importance of implementing dental virtual simulation in preclinical and clinical courses during pandemics. Some suggestions are also provided to widen communication and creativity in the education system. The limitations of online learning and suggested solutions are also discussed. METHODS Two independent investigators conducted an electronic comprehensive search of PubMed/MEDLINE for articles published between 2000 and 2020, using the following search terms: “online education”; “Tele-dentistry”; “Education during pandemics”; “Virtual dentistry”; “COVID-19 reshaping education”; and “Dental E-learning.” Studies were selected and classified as included or excluded based on the title and abstract of the articles by the 2 researchers, working independently. Articles included were published in English, related to dentistry and online education. Articles excluded were not published in English or related to conventional education. It was not possible to analyze included articles, therefore we decided to do narrative review only. Authors’ points of view and suggestions were also added to shed light on the online learning experience and understand its quality and effectiveness during pandemics. RESULTS from 150 articles reviewed, only 30 articles were found to qualify for inclusion. All included articles discussed online education based on experience of authors and provided some suggestions so that online learning experience becomes more effective. All included articles found that online education is a useful tool to be invested at times of pandemics and that it needs to be empowered and improved by schools and universities. CONCLUSIONS Being successful in riding the wave will take dental learning and teaching into a new era. In the future, every dean and faculty member will understand that online education is not only a potential source for new revenue. Instead, online education will be recognized as an essential core to every educational plan for institutional resilience and academic continuity.

Promoting Interaction in an Asynchronous E-Learning Environment

2015 ◽  
pp. 154-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Pavlis Korres
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Educational Performance ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
E Learning ◽  
High Level

Interaction is at the heart of the online learning experience. Theorists consider interaction a defining characteristic of education and regard it as vitally important in the design of e-learning courses. Interaction is a significant component in promoting learners' positive attitudes towards online education and affects their educational performance. This chapter examines the various ways an e-learning environment can promote interaction among participants by using the appropriate communication tools. It presents the results of a pilot e-learning course, confirming that different types of interaction can be promoted at a high level in an online environment and will contribute effectively to the achievement of the learning objectives.

scholarly journals Promising online learning and teaching in digital age: systematic review analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 126-135
Author(s):  
Azwar Rahmat ◽  
Abdul Wahab Syakhrani ◽  
Erwinsyah Satria
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Review Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning

This paper discusses online learning in the digital era by reviewing various international publications. This study is interesting given the growth of schools offering online education. This trend continues to develop, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, which caused all social activities to stop. For that reason, we are interested in discussing online learning strategies, enriching the learning experience. Our analytical process involves coding, evaluation, and in-depth interpretation to obtain valid and reliable findings. We conducted data searches with the help of electronic searches on the Google Scholar app, ERIC publications, and Academic Microsoft between 2015 and publication in 2021. As a result, online educational activities have won a place in the hearts of students and teachers, which occur automatically through website technology. More specifically, this is called "e-learning." This is a promising distance learning that has become a trend for students and scientists and has become a way for people to get information about their needs.

scholarly journals Teaching and Learning in Survival Mode: Students and Faculty Perceptions of Distance Education during the COVID-19 Lockdown

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 8053
Author(s):  
Maram Meccawy ◽  
Zilal Meccawy ◽  
Aisha Alsobhi
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Faculty Perceptions ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Negative Perception ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Online Distance Learning ◽  
Online Distance

(1) This study demonstrates how a Saudi university has responded to the COVID-19 lockdown in order to examine the success factors and highlight any challenges. The main purpose was to determine the perceptions of students and faculty towards emergency online distance learning from a teaching and learning perspective; (2) A cross-faculty study was conducted: two different self-administered questionnaires were developed for students and faculty, respectively. In addition, data was collected from official reports; (3) The results show that students had a more positive perception of e-Learning despite the difficulties that they may have faced, while faculty results leaned slightly towards a negative perception. However, there was not a definite positive or negative perception, depending on the aspect of teaching that was being evaluated. The study also indicated that faculty and students’ gender had no significant effect on their perceptions. Overall results showed that the university performed well in accordance with three of the five pillars of online learning quality framework in terms of student satisfaction, access and scalability. On the other, improvements are needed to achieve better results for faculty satisfaction and learning effectiveness; (4) The findings present a number of suggestions for increasing satisfaction to improve the online learning experience post COVID-19.

scholarly journals Implementation of the online learning at vocational high school during Covid-19: Between obligations and barriers

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ummi Mukarromah ◽  
Wiwik Wijayanti
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Vocational Schools ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Teacher Creativity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Hotel Accommodation

Vocational schools are no exception to implementing the online learning policy during the covid-19 pandemic, including students majoring in hotel accommodation. This study aims to describe how the school develops its readiness to implement the policy, particularly its challenges. This study also aims to determine the constraints and impacts of implementing the policy. Using a qualitative method, this study involved two vocational schools in Yogyakarta that have Hotel Accommodation major. The heads of the departments, the productive teachers, and some students were invited to several interviews. Documentation was also used to obtain detailed information. The results were categorized into two aspects: hard-skills and soft-skills. From the first aspect, challenges that are faced as the impact of the policy are (1) online learning at vocational schools majoring in hotel accommodation requires facilities and infrastructure that do not include internet quota, (2) teacher digital competence and teacher creativity in carrying out learning need to be improved, (3) students feel bored with online learning, so motivation needs to be grown, (4) skills/ practice-based learning implemented in school alternately with a limited number of students. The second aspect indicated that the policy makes it difficult to develop students' soft skills that are also measured as the learning objective. These constraints are important to note for the implementation of the online learning policy to be successful.

scholarly journals How E-Learning Deals with Higher Education during the Pandemic in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Andhi Dwi Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
State Universities ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to investigate the obstacles of e-learning, especially for students, and to find out students' perception in facing e-learning during coronavirus disease pandemic (covid-19). The rapid spread of coronavirus urges universities on a world-wide scale to do e-learning, including universities in Indonesia. This study uses online interviews and questionnaires to obtain the data, and descriptive qualitative method is used to analyse the data. The respondents in this study are 126 students with different majors from 21 universities in all across Indonesia, consisting of 6 state universities and 15 private ones. The results of the study reveal that e-learning has been carried out by universities in the country. It also shows there are several aspects such as the availability of online learning facilities, the use of facilities, learning processes, and some more points that need to reconsider or to optimize conducting the e-learning for the long term.Keywords: e-learning; students; pandemic

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