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CLARENCE PLACIDO

Coronavirus (COVID-19) has altered the way children are educated throughout the world in just

a few weeks. Those developments provide us a taste of how education may alter in the long run,

both for the better and for the worse. With the coronavirus swiftly spreading across Asia, Europe,

the Middle East, and the United States, nations have acted quickly and decisively to prevent a

full-blown pandemic. Several statements have been made in the last two weeks suspending

attendance at schools and institutions. According to the OECD, over 421 million students are

affected by school closures announced or implemented in 39 countries as of March 13. In

addition, 22 nations have declared "localized" partial closures.

Millions of kids have been forced into temporary 'home-schooling' circumstances as a result of

these risk-management measures, particularly in some of the worst-affected nations, such as

China, South Korea, Italy, and Iran. Although these changes have created some discomfort, they

have also generated fresh examples of educational creativity. Although it is too soon to tell how

COVID-19 will effect education systems throughout the world, there are hints that it may have a

long-term impact on the evolution of learning innovation and digitalization. We'll look at three

trends that might indicate future changes. Education that is pressed and pushed to change might

lead to unexpected breakthroughs. With centuries-old, lecture-based approaches to teaching,

entrenched institutional biases, and obsolete classrooms, the glacial rate of change in academic

institutions throughout the world is regrettable. COVID-19, on the other hand, has become a

catalyst for educational institutions all around the world to seek for creative solutions in a short

amount of time. In February, students in Hong Kong began learning at home using interactive
applications to try curb the virus' spread. Live television broadcasts provided access to study

material to 120 million Chinese people in China.

Other, more straightforward - but no less inventive - methods were applied all across the world.

To assist avoid school closures at one Nigerian school, traditional asynchronous online learning

methods (such as reading material via Google Classroom) were supplemented with synchronous

face-to-face video instruction. Similarly, pupils at one Lebanon school started using online

learning for areas like physical education. As "homework," students recorded and submitted

films of physical training and games to their professors, encouraging them to master new digital

abilities. One parent of a student said, "While the athletic activity only took a few minutes, my

son spent three hours filming, editing, and delivering the video to his instructor in the proper

format." Learners and solution providers will genuinely embrace the 'learning anywhere,

anytime' notion of digital education in a variety of formats as 5G technology becomes more

ubiquitous in nations such as China, the United States, and Japan. Traditional classroom learning

will be supplemented by new learning modalities such as live broadcasts, "educational

influencers," and virtual reality experiences. Learning might become ingrained in people's

everyday habits - a real lifestyle.

In India, educational institutions (schools, colleges, and universities) are now based solely on

conventional learning techniques, that is, they follow the traditional classroom setup of face-to-

face lectures. Despite the fact that many academic units have begun to use blended learning,

many are still using outdated practices. The rapid emergence of Covid-19, a devastating disease

caused by the Corona Virus (SARS-CoV-2) startled the whole globe. It was labeled a pandemic

by the World Health Organization. This event posed a challenge to the global education system,

forcing instructors to switch to an online form of instruction overnight.


Many academic institutions that had previously been hesitant to adapt their traditional

pedagogical method now have no choice but to fully embrace online teaching–learning. The

value of online learning is discussed, as well as a SWOC (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities,

and Challenges) study of e-learning modalities in a crisis. This article also discusses the rise of

EdTech start-ups during pandemics and natural catastrophes, as well as recommendations for

academic institutions on how to deal with the issues of online learning. Corona Virus,

commonly known as Covid-19, is a fatal and contagious illness that has had a significant impact

on the world economy. This catastrophe has also rattled the education industry, and this dread is

likely to spread across the world's education system. Many schools and institutions were forced

to close temporarily due of the Covid-19 epidemic. Several places are affected globally, and

there is concern that the current semester, as well as future semesters, may be lost. In-person

instruction has been phased out in a number of schools, colleges, and universities. According to

the experts, it is unlikely that normal teaching will resume very soon. Because social separation

is so prevalent at this point, learning chances will suffer as a result. Educational institutions are

scrambling to come up with solutions to this difficult scenario. These conditions highlight the

need of scenario planning for academic institutions (Rieley, 2020). This is a scenario that needs

humanity and cooperation. Our students, instructors, academic staff, communities, societies, and

the country as a whole all need to be protected and saved.

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