COVID-19 pandemic and the changing paradigms of higher education: A gulf university perspective

M. Alfiras, Janaki Bojiah, Amr Abdullatif Yassin

2020Asian EFL journal18 citations

Abstract

With the outbreak of COVID-19 in the month of February 2020, Bahrain government had to enforce distance learning amidst the school and university students and the faculty were directed to work from home With no formal and intense training, it was completely a fire fighting scenario be it for students or for the faculty members Thanks to digital tools, supportive IT staff, tech-savvy students, and easy availability of high-speed internet - without which the coping with could have been impossible for the faculty With this backdrop, this paper intends to spell out the changing paradigms of Gulf University with respect to teaching and learning process during COVID-19 phase and how the faculty members and students have been managing to achieve the objectives of the teaching and learning © 2020 Asian E F L Journal Press All rights reserved

Topics & Concepts

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)PandemicSpellHigher educationGovernment (linguistics)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakThe InternetDistance educationSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Political sciencePublic relationsPedagogyMedical educationSociologyMedicineOutbreakInfectious disease (medical specialty)Computer scienceVirologyLawAnthropologyWorld Wide WebPhilosophyLinguisticsPathologyDiseaseOrganizational and Employee PerformanceDental Research and COVID-19