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The Post-COVID Classroom: Lessons from a Pandemic

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Higher Education in the Arab World

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In December 2019, an outbreak of pneumonia cases with unknown etiology was reported in Wuhan, China. It had then quickly spread to other provinces with more and more patients having fever and cough symptoms. Within a few weeks, a novel coronavirus was identified by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and named as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). The World Health Organization called the illness associated with this infection as “coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) and on 11 March 2020, it was declared a pandemic, as the virus spread across the globe, reaching 217 countries and territories with 17 million confirmed cases and over 668 deaths. By April 2020, the number of students staying at home due to lockdown measures implemented by their educational institutions reached 1.598 billion in 194 countries. Such lockdown has forced these institutions to switch to online pedagogy. In developing countries, and among them the Arab world, this has exposed inequalities and challenges, such as uneven distribution of internet connectivity between urban and rural areas, with some poor areas not able to afford even the price of the hardware. Students and teachers were not well trained and equipped for online and virtual education. And schooling and campus social life was missed and the student’s psychology under these circumstances may have changed human behavior, which needs to be studied further by social scientists. As for academic conferences, these were postponed, cancelled or carried out online using various platforms. There is no doubt that online learning has saved the educational sector from disaster. However, after the pandemic, the style of educational pedagogy will be changed, and will not be business as usual. This chapter presents an overview of the effect of the pandemic on higher education, starting with an introduction that includes a description of the higher education sector pre-COVID-19 and a background on COVID-19. The immediate measures taken by higher-education institutions and the immediate challenges they faced will be presented, focusing on the impact of COVID-19 on various educational fields and the different stakeholders. Finally, the challenges of recovery beyond the pandemic are addressed and recommendations for future trends and possibilities for the Arab world are considered, for a more sustainable future.

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