The Online Education System: COVID-19 Demands, Trends, Implications, Challenges, Lessons, Insights, Opportunities, Outlooks, and Directions in the Work from Home

Ana Dias, Annibal Scavarda, Haydee Silveira, Luiz Felipe Scavarda and Kiran Kumar Kondamareddy
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Ana Dias: Production Engineering Department, Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da, Fonseca-CEFET/RJ, Rio de Janeiro 20271-110, Brazil
Annibal Scavarda: Production Engineering Department, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro-UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro 22290-240, Brazil
Haydee Silveira: Civil Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro-COPPE-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro 21941-450, Brazil
Luiz Felipe Scavarda: Industrial Engineering Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 22541-900, Brazil
Kiran Kumar Kondamareddy: Physics Department, School of Pure Sciences, College of Engineering Science and Technology, Fiji National University, Lautoka P.O. Box 5529, Fiji

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 21, 1-21

Abstract: The aim of this exploratory research is to identify how working from home and the consequent social isolation interfered in teachers’ work and students’ learning and to identify the challenges, difficulties, advantages, opportunities, demands, trends, implications, outlooks, lessons, directions, and feelings of students and teachers in the teaching processes during the COVID-19 pandemic period. To reach its aim, the authors of this paper developed searches and scientific databases and they also sent an email questionnaire to Rio de Janeiro city schools. The descriptive analyses were made by descriptive statistics (proportions, rates, minimum, maximum, mean, median, standard deviation, coefficient of variation—CV). The results show that working from home and the consequent social isolation interfered in the students’ and teachers’ feelings and sensations and highlight the words “frustration”, “hope”, and “strangeness”. From the sample, 96.4% of the teachers affirmed that working from home and the social isolation interfered in their work and 97.4% of the teachers affirmed that working from home and the consequent social isolation interfered in the students’ learning. This research is the starting point to boost discussions on the subjects of COVID-19, working from home, social isolation, and education. This paper will support researchers in the development of future studies related to the subjects.

Keywords: COVID-19; education; social isolation; work from home (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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