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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted human life globally, including at all levels of education. In this chapter, I will discuss how I, as a doctoral student, dealt with the new educational practices which resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. I highlight the change of demand and motives I experienced, including the conditions and challenges I faced when managing my son’s home learning and my online learning. I developed a new educational practice of using technology to support my various needs as a doctoral student. I show that commitment, dedication, and resilience during the restricted learning process played an important role in helping me to successfully adjust to my pandemic learning conditions. I conclude this chapter by providing practical insights into how other doctoral students could adapt to the changes resulting from COVID-19. These insights can help future doctoral students cope with stress associated with significant change, workload demands, time-management challenges, and personal commitments.
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Utami, A.D. (2022). A Shift in Doctoral Students’ Demands and Motives During the COVID-19 Pandemic. In: Cahusac de Caux, B., Pretorius, L., Macaulay, L. (eds) Research and Teaching in a Pandemic World. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7757-2_21
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