Pandemic Era (COVID-19) and Higher Education in the Philippines against the World Perspective: A Literature Survey Analysis

ورقة مؤتمر

2021

تم النشر فى: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3786765

Abstract

The objective of the study is to analyze the situation of Higher Education during the Pandemic Era of COVID-19 in the Philippines from the World perspective. The literature survey analysis is limited to published articles and studies. Literature survey analysis is a type of literature review aimed as broadly described, more or less systematic, way of collecting and synthesizing previously chosen researches supposed identified in accordance to a chose to focus. Popular search engines were used browsing through ScienceDirect, Research Gate, and Web of Science was used to generate the information. This health emergency of COVID-19 raised to a pandemic level had changed and kept on affecting millions of lives of astounding magnitude with multidimensional implications. The pandemic placed the whole world at a standstill, interventions putting countries into a shutdown as most if not all nation’s leaders chose strict quarantine restrictions to all social and economic activities. Higher education is one social institution affected just the same as others. The safety of students, teachers, and administrators was put at a priority thus forcing the entire educational system into a challenge of continuing the teaching-learning process without compromising the health conditions of everyone involved in the process. Alternatives were identified towards the more impersonal and indirect methodology of continuing the learning process. Online education, distance education, e-learning, and other alternative modes of learning delivery by any means necessary just to be able to continue on with the “new normal” in the academic institutions. The technology was more than welcome into these alternative models. The internet, social media applications, and even the more traditional television and radio were utilized to supplement the more popular ones. There were also revisions made in the curriculum being implemented to suit the “new needs” as required by the restrictions and challenges of students and teachers being safely tucked in their home environments. Teachers and learners were also made to adopt the more “impersonal” means of communicating and connecting making the most of the present strategies to work to their own advantages. New competencies for teachers to teach online and students developing new skills to survive the virtual learning models made available by most schools and universities.

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