COVID19 emergency education policy and learning loss -- Classrooms going digital evaluating online presence -- Enhancing onine education with intelligent discussion tools -- Higher education student perspectives on emergency remote teaching during the COVID19 pandemic -- Effects of an emergency transition to online learning in higher education -- Rethinking the social responsibilities of universitites in the light of COVID-19 pandemic -- Covid-19 and academic issues and impact in higher education -- The vulnerability and opportunity of privatization in higer education during a pandemic
Crisis requires society to renew itself, albeit in a disruptive way. The current Covid-19 pandemic is transforming ways of working, living, and relating to each other on a global level, suddenly and dramatically. This book focuses on the field of education to show how higher education institutions are undergoing radical transformations driven by the need to digitalize education and training processes in record time with academics who lack innate technological capabilities for online teaching. This book also explain some barriers and challenges that universities encounter, as well as technological resources and methodologies they have used in the current scenario to transform higher education.-- Publisher's description
