Higher Education - Reflections From the Field - Volume 1

Edited by Lee Waller and Sharon Waller

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Abstract: COVID wrought havoc on the world's economic systems. Higher education did not escape the ravages brought on by the pandemic as institutions of higher education around the world faced major upheavals in their educational delivery systems. Some institutions were prepared for the required transition to online learning. Most were not. Whether prepared or not, educators rose to the challenge. The innovativeness of educators met the challenges as digital learning replaced the face-to-face environment. In fact, some of the distance models proved so engaging that many students no longer desire a return to the face-to-face model. As with all transitions, some things were lost while others were gained. This book examines practice in the field as institutions struggled to face the worst global pandemic in the last century. The book is organized into four sections on "The Perspectives of Higher Education", "COVID as a Catalyst for Change", "Embracing Online Learning as a Response to COVID", and "Post Covid: The Way Forward". It presents various perspectives from educators around the world to illustrate the struggles and triumphs of those facing new challenges and implementing new ideas to empower the educational process. These discussions shed light on the impact of the pandemic and the future of higher education post-COVID. Higher education has been forever changed, and higher education as it once was may never return. While many questions arise, the achievements in meeting and overcoming the pandemic illustrate the creativity and innovativeness of educators around the world who inspired future generations of learners to reach new heights of accomplishment even in the face of the pandemic.

JEL-codes: I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
ISBN: 978-1-83768-538-7
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Chapters in this book:

Barriers and Enablers in the Education and Psychosocial Wellbeing of University Students amid the COVID-19: The Case of Eastern Ethiopia, Haramaya University in Focus

Dawit Negassa Golga, Endris Seid Kassaw and Birhanu Midakso

Enhancing Innovation: The Idea, Validity and Higher Education Reflections from the Field amid COVID-19 Crisis

Charles Enock Mulimba Ruyembe

Exploring the Professional Development and Improvement Strategies of College Teachers' Skills in the Twenty-First Century in the Era of Covid-19

Xiaoyao Yue, Yan Ye and Linjiao Zou

Lessons Learned during the Transition to Online Learning in a University Nutrition and Exercise Department

Angela S. Anderson, Heather Cox, Nicolin Girmes-Grieco, Renee Eaton, Michelle S. Rockwell and Deborah J. Good

Perspective Chapter: Addressing the Learning Management System Challenges during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Alfred Mutanga, Gomotsegang Joyce Pule and Molefe M. Motshegwe

Perspective Chapter: Analyses of Literature on the Lived-Experiences of International Post-Graduate Students during COVID-19

Rakgadi Sophy Phatlane, Bridget Asonglefac and Chika Sehoole

Perspective Chapter: COVID-19 as a Catalyst for the Acceleration of Change in the Assessment Culture of Caribbean Higher Education Institutions

Stafford Griffith

Perspective Chapter: Gender, Social Class and 'A Sense of Belonging' at University - A Historical Perspective

Sam Shields

Perspective Chapter: Higher Education Challenges

Juan Sebastian Vergara Palma

Perspective Chapter: Organizational Ecology - Evolving Realities in Higher Education from Cholera to Covid - A Michigan State University Planning and Design Case Study

Bin Wen, Jing Zhou, Lijun Hao and Jon Bryan Burley

Perspective Chapter: Reflection from the Field of Medical Education in the COVID-19 Pandemic - New Strategies and Practices in Achieving Needed Competencies for Students

Hussain M. Khaled and Ahmed M. Makhlouf

Perspective Chapter: Reflections from the Field - The Struggles of a Senior Manager in Pursuit of Social Justice and Equity, the Case of Walter Sisulu University in South Africa

Valindawo Valile M. Dwayi

Perspective Chapter: Resilience of Tertiary Education Students Living with Disabilities - Lessons to Learn from COVID-19 Era

Faith Kurete

Perspective Chapter: The War as a Factor of Upheavals and Transformations in Higher Education - Experience of Ukraine

Valentyna Polykarpivna Antoniuk

Perspective Chapter: Will the Traditional Teacher Education Models Stand the Pandemics and Cyclones?

Lazarus Obed Livingstone Obed Livingstone Banda and Jane Thokozani Banda

Reconceptualizing Curriculum Design and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in an ODeL Institution: The Introduction of Technology-Enhanced Learning

Malebo Matlala

Reshaping Blended Learning after the COVID-19 Period in Higher Education

Tamas Kopeczi-Bocz

Social Impact through the SDGs: Case Studies in Higher Education

Belen Lopez

Sustainable Pathways for SLP Provisioning amid a National Health Crisis: A Newspaper Review

Alfred Motalenyane Modise, Monica June Palmer and Darrell Edwin De Klerk

The Experiences of International Students Studying in the UK during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Alina Schartner

Toward Sustainable Teaching: Staff Perceptions of the Delivery of a Rural Medical Program during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Julie Willems, Cathy Haigh, Shane Bullock, Marianne Tare, Margaret Simmons, Adelle McArdle and David Reser

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