Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Teaching and Learning
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- 10.2991/978-2-38476-271-2_94How to use a DOI?
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- Online Teaching and learning; COVID-19 pandemic; Strategies
- Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak happened in 2019, which influences the economy, society and education of the society. It firstly broke out in Wuhan, China and spread widely within a few months, affecting 153 million people (Flores et al., 2021)4. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically influenced our lifestyle and has significantly disrupted our society. The government has implemented many policies for the COVID-19. For instance, most individuals are forced to stay at their home due to lockdown during the serious pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic causes several serious challenges to individuals’ life and study. Especially in terms of education, teachers have to take online classes instead of face-to-face class because of the lockdown. With schools and universities being forced to shift towards remote teaching, they must adapt to new ways of teaching, learning, and interacting (Pocinho et al., 2020)8, which means quickly adapt to a dramatically different learning environment. This change has caused numerous challenges for both students and teachers, and it has highlighted existing inequities in access to technology and resources. Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a huge impact in teaching and learning according to above description. Many previous studies have explored the short-term impacts of Covid-19 pandemic on teaching and learning, such as the sudden shift to remote instruction and disruptions to the academic arrangement. There is a need to examine the positive and negative effects of the pandemic on education. Specifically, this study will begin by examining the positive impacts of the pandemic, including analyzing the rapid online learning and the resources of the pandemic on teaching and learning (i.e. student achievement, graduation rates, learning ways…). And it will then examine the negative efforts of the pandemic on existing educational inequalities, including disparities in access to technology and resources. Finally, it will look for some strategies of teaching and learning in the COVID-19 pandemic, discussing differences and similarities linked with the positive and negative impacts. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the literature on the impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning. There are three positive impacts linked with this issue, which is the different implications for student engagement and motivation, not being limited by place and time, as well as the multiple choices in teaching and learning. Despite of three positive impact, there are also three negative impacts on teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is the imbalance of educational resources, disrupting standardized test or university admissions and the deterioration in quality of study. Some corresponding strategies are mentioned in my study, including allocating resources wisely, standardizing the examination system and changing the teaching methods. The purpose of this study is to identify the positive impact and the negative impact on teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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TY - CONF AU - Shuai Wang PY - 2024 DA - 2024/07/29 TI - Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Teaching and Learning BT - Proceedings of the 2024 5th International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2024) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 791 EP - 798 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-271-2_94 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-271-2_94 ID - Wang2024 ER -