Constructing an Online Sustainable Educational Model in COVID-19 Pandemic Environments

Zhonggen Yu, Wei Xu and Liheng Yu
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Zhonggen Yu: Department of English Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing 100083, China
Wei Xu: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, City University of Macau, Macau 999078, China
Liheng Yu: School of Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Ocean University, Lianyungang 222005, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 6, 1-16

Abstract: The outbreak of COVID-19 forced billions of learners to stay at home in order to receive online education. The aim of the study is to construct an online sustainable educational model to facilitate this learning approach. This study included 53 peer-reviewed articles for the review study following the selection process of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocol (PRISMA-P) and the clustering techniques of VOSviewer. It is concluded that the model consists of online educational platforms, online assessment systems, social media, and digital literacy. With these features, online education could be sustained. However, challenges should also be addressed to sustain online education during the pandemic. Designers, scientists, and teachers should make every effort to increase learning engagement, enhance learning supervision, formulate adequate emergency programs, minimize educational inequalities, solve technical issues, and formulate systematic learning management and organization. The sustainable online educational model may be updated and perfected by including more practical features in the future.

Keywords: online sustainable educational model; online education; COVID-19; pandemic; environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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