Abstract
The World Health Organization has declared Covid-19 as a pandemic that has posed a contemporary threat to humanity. This pandemic has successfully forced global shutdown of several activities, including educational activities, and this has resulted in tremendous crisis-response migration of universities with online learning serving as the educational platform. The crisis-response migration methods of universities, faculty and students, challenges and opportunities were discussed and it is evident that online learning is different from emergency remote teaching, online learning will be more sustainable while instructional activities will become more hybrid provided the challenges experienced during this pandemic are well explored and transformed to opportunities.
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PandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Humanity2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Online learningEducational technologyPolitical sciencePublic relationsSociologyPedagogyMedicineComputer scienceMultimediaVirology
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- 31
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- 2
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- 863-875
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- 2573
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Olasile Babatunde Adedoyın,
Emrah Soykan
(2020).
Covid-19 pandemic and online learning: the challenges and opportunities.
Interactive Learning Environments
, 31
(2)
, 863-875.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2020.1813180
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- 10.1080/10494820.2020.1813180