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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced schools to transition to distance learning. While challenging, students have adapted to online learning and many agree that blended learning combining online and classroom learning could be effective going forward. However, not all students have access to reliable internet or technology, exacerbating educational inequalities. Distance learning strategies in response to COVID-19 aim to ensure inclusion, but also provide lessons to build more flexible education systems long-term.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced schools to transition to distance learning. While challenging, students have adapted to online learning and many agree that blended learning combining online and classroom learning could be effective going forward. However, not all students have access to reliable internet or technology, exacerbating educational inequalities. Distance learning strategies in response to COVID-19 aim to ensure inclusion, but also provide lessons to build more flexible education systems long-term.

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Influence of Distance Learning to students during COVID-19

According to California Community College (CCC) Datamart, to fight the spread

of coronavirus and maintain healthy social-distancing, schools across the country have

temporarily closed and quickly transitioned from on-campus, face-to-face learning to

distance learning. In the last decade, colleges and universities have led the charge

incorporating online, distance education into their programming, changing how they

plan and design their campus. The current rapid and forced adoption of online teaching

and learning will likely lead to permanent changes, generating data that may help to

accelerate and improve online learning platforms and pedagogies.

https://hmcarchitects.com/news/distance-learning-in-the-time-of-covid-19/

Student perspective of classroom and distance learning during COVID-19


pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global health issue and has had a major

impact on education. Consequently, half way through the second semester of the

academic year 2019/2020, learning methods were delivered through distance learning.

Despite some challenges, some students could adapt to the new learning methods of

full distance learning and the majorities agreed blended learning that combined
classroom and distance learning can be implemented henceforth. This current COVID-

19 pandemic, changes not only the utilization of technology in education but the

pedagogy strategies in the future. (Amir, L.R., Tanti, I., & Maharani, D.A., 2020)

https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-020-02312-0

The challenges of COVID-19 pandemic on education

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

(OECD), some students without reliable internet access and/or technology struggle to

participate in digital learning; this gap is seen across countries and between income

brackets within countries. “It is clear that this pandemic has utterly disrupted an

education system that many assert was already losing its relevance.” (Harari, 2018) The

hasty nature of the transition online may have hindered this goal, others plan to make

e-learning part of their ‘new normal’ after experiencing the benefits first-hand.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/coronavirus-education-global-covid19-

online-digital-learning/

From traditional to distance learning education


Faculty lecturing in a classroom setting, students listening, taking notes, asking

questions, and getting those questions answered have been the backbone of traditional

academic education. With advancements in communication technology such as the

telephone, radio, television and most recently the internet, new methods of learning,

including distance learning, have emerged. Through the internet, students can now

obtain instruction and learn with ease at home by simply clicking a few buttons on the

computer to listen live or asynchronously to a professor thousands of miles away,

interact with the professor, and solve problems without having to physically be in a

classroom. While a more expensive option for education in terms of set up, distance

education has progressed in concept and practice from an “anywhere” to an “anytime”

education delivery method. Distance learning, also known by various names such as

distance education, e-learning, mobile learning, or online learning, is a form of

education where there is physical separation of teachers from students during the

instruction and learning process. It is also an instructional practice that effectively

utilizes a wide range of tools and technology to enrich the student learning experience

and to facilitate student-faculty and student-student communication. The minimum

technological requirements for successful distance learning include the acquisition of

hardware such as a computer, mobile device (cellular phones), or webcam, some form

of listening device, video conferencing applications. (Armstrong-Mensah E, Ramsey-

White K, Yankey B and Self-Brown S, 2020)

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Distance learning strategies in response to COVID-19 school closures

Establishing or scaling up distance learning strategies are a sector-wide response to

sudden interruption of educational processes as a result of unexpected COVID-19

school closures. These strategies are guided by a concern for equity and inclusion and

the need to ensure the design and delivery of distance learning do not exacerbate

existing educational and social inequalities. The planning of more comprehensive

distance learning strategies should, however, be guided by both immediate mitigation

needs and long-term goals. Beyond the response to the current crisis, the efforts to

deploy distance learning at scale across all levels of education provides valuable lessons

and may lay the foundation for longer-term goals of building more open, inclusive and

flexible education systems after the COVID-19 pandemic has passed. (UNESCO.ORG,

2020)

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