{"title":"Student Experience on Using Social Media as an Educational Platform During COVID-19","authors":"Wahida Islam Talukder","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch005","url":null,"abstract":"During this pandemic period of COVID-19, the role of social media and the education sector is changing. This chapter concentrated on the impact of social media education on students' mental health and academic careers in Bangladesh. Students were concerned about their future and the study gap after beginning online education, which resulted in stress and a strain on their mental health. Social media as an educational platform has opened up many doors and changed students' perceptions that it is providing the best possible options for them while also having a positive impact on their mental health. The study will help people understand the role of social media in creating a balancing situation for students.","PeriodicalId":152340,"journal":{"name":"Education Reform in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic","volume":"29 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123589935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Programming During a Pandemic","authors":"J. Pickering","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch002","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this chapter is to provide an institutional case study on how one campus utilized programming and events during the pandemic to continue engagement with students. The chapter will review how the university helped students continue their connection virtually and in hybrid formats before returning to in-person activities in August 2020. The effective communication by the university, creative programming by staff, and resources provided by the university created an environment that limited student feelings of isolation and allowed them to maintain a connection with peers.","PeriodicalId":152340,"journal":{"name":"Education Reform in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132861511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kendall St. Hilaire, Todd Adrian, Leigh Clay, Lucimara Mello, K. Profeta, Veronica Martabano
{"title":"COVID-19","authors":"Kendall St. Hilaire, Todd Adrian, Leigh Clay, Lucimara Mello, K. Profeta, Veronica Martabano","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch001","url":null,"abstract":"This case study describes how a global campus team at a mid-sized state college helped facilitate the institutional shift to remote functionality during the COVID-19 pandemic. The college's strategies include interdepartmental partnerships, frequent communication, professional development, student and staff support, and technology implementation. The chapter provides a reflection on the lessons learned, a retrospective realization that the team employed Kotter's eight-step process for leading change, and recommendations for advancing best practices. In addition, the narrative highlights the attention placed on the global team's efforts to humanize technology during the transition process. Humanization helps mitigate the challenges that can result from change and can be beneficial in the learning process. The team infused this characteristic throughout trainings and webinars to ease the disruption of system-wide adjustment.","PeriodicalId":152340,"journal":{"name":"Education Reform in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127940488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pratham Babaria, Arkasama Bandyopadhyay, Matt LaDue, Yetkin Yildirim
{"title":"The Future of Online Learning After COVID","authors":"Pratham Babaria, Arkasama Bandyopadhyay, Matt LaDue, Yetkin Yildirim","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch007","url":null,"abstract":"As education institutions struggled to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of their fundamental problems were brought to the surface. Emergency adjustments to online learning were intended to minimize the disruption to learning as much as possible in the midst of a global pandemic. But now that schools in the US are beginning to reopen for in-person instruction, it is time to critically assess these changes to higher-education and consider their long-term impact on the future of college learning. This chapter will confront these issues and explore how education resources can be used to ensure student engagement and prevent social isolation in future modes of hybrid and online learning.","PeriodicalId":152340,"journal":{"name":"Education Reform in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129960245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Community College Student Preferences for Support When Classes Go Online","authors":"W. Hamilton, Gabriela Hamilton","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch004","url":null,"abstract":"As colleges and universities shifted the bulk of their classes online in response to COVID-19, there was also a concomitant shift in how students could be supported by institutions. Yet, very little is known about the support networks that students tap into when confronted with such change, and there is reason to believe that students' ability to access and benefit from online support structures—and the social connections they make—might be moderated by their digital skills and competencies. The purpose of this chapter is to better understand what support networks students preferred to access when classes moved online, and whether techno-capital, a measure of digital skills and knowledge, influenced these choices. This chapter summarizes research findings from multivariate regression models that used student data collected from a community college in the USA, just after the classes migrated online. The chapter concludes with recommendations based on this research.","PeriodicalId":152340,"journal":{"name":"Education Reform in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic","volume":"19 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129317814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where Do I Belong?","authors":"C. Ryan","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch006","url":null,"abstract":"The author of this chapter was a full-time staff member in student programming and an adjunct instructor at a large, public research university in the southern region of the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout this chapter, the author will showcase how various institutions answered the call and shifted to a completely virtual experience for programs and events during the COVID-19 pandemic. This chapter will utilize personal anecdotes, from both students and staff, to showcase successful applications of virtual engagement, from new student orientations to graduations, as well as further explore the limitations of engagement through a completely virtual environment. Additionally, this chapter will discuss some of the limitations created from operating in a completely virtual space, including how students and staff handled zoombombing, as well as how to navigate through a high stakes event with malfunctioning technology. Finally, this chapter will highlight ways in which virtual programming can still be utilized long after the COVID-19 pandemic has passed.","PeriodicalId":152340,"journal":{"name":"Education Reform in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123751078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fred Moonga, Lungile Mabundza, Prudence D. Hlatshwayo
{"title":"Post-COVID-19 Reforms in Higher Education in Eswatini","authors":"Fred Moonga, Lungile Mabundza, Prudence D. Hlatshwayo","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch010","url":null,"abstract":"Various countries experience challenges at different times. The challenges have historically been of demographic, economic, political, social, and technological nature but influenced by globalisation. In response to these challenges, governments design and implement different reforms involving resource allocation and delivery mechanisms. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a unique challenge. Some countries intervened with various stimulus packages to save economies and other sectors, but not much in the higher education sector. Teaching and learning had to transition from the traditional face-to-face between learners and teachers in one room at the same time to online. Although literature is still relatively scanty on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education and other sectors, there may be consensus that it affected almost all aspects of human life. Preventing the spread of COVID-19 was a challenge globally. This chapter analyses the reforms in higher education occasioned by COVID-19 in Eswatini.","PeriodicalId":152340,"journal":{"name":"Education Reform in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115322708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Counselling During COVID-19","authors":"Rehana Amin, Shabnum Ara, M. Imtiaz","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch003","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis that imposed significant risk to the mental health of people. The vulnerable populations like healthcare workers, frontline workers, children, elderly, and pregnant females were at a greater risk of developing mental health problems. The administration of early counselling before overt signs of mental disorders will help in preventing morbidity and provide better opportunities to work in a crisis situation. Teleconsultation is a helping hand when visiting in person can prove dangerous. Digital networking systems proved a tremendous help during restrictions implemented to curtail the spread of infection.","PeriodicalId":152340,"journal":{"name":"Education Reform in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115615860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Governance of Greek Higher Education in the COVID-19 Era","authors":"Theofanis Papastathis","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch009","url":null,"abstract":"Coronavirus and its international spread have caused an unprecedented health emergency. Governance refers to a set of institutions that come from and beyond government. In the case of the pandemic, the government is the coordination measure for the creation of the mechanism, by the government, to deal with it. The emergence of the scientific community as a key decision-making body creates a special model of governance. This model is called Epistemocratic Democracy. With this peculiarity, the universities come to the forefront. The purpose of the research is to investigate the governance of HE in Greece against COVID-19 and their effectiveness. The study adopted a qualitative approach through analysis of official documents. The common ideas that emerge around tackling the pandemic combine the political decisions around an action plan. The rapid creation of guides to the academic community and the exploitation/development of electronic platforms through interdisciplinary approaches, as needed on the occasion characterizes as successful the governance of the institutions in the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":152340,"journal":{"name":"Education Reform in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122078300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Love It or Leave It","authors":"Oluwunmi Ariyo, Ansa Reams-Johnson","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8992-2.ch008","url":null,"abstract":"Prior to the impact of COVID-19, more institutions had made online learning a part of the education landscape. The United Stated Department of Education acknowledged that more than 6.9 million college students were enrolled in some type of distance learning course. Although not always embraced by all parts of the higher education community, some form of online learning contributes to many college fiscal bottom lines. Classes may be fully online, or some type of hybrid or blended learning, and synchronous or asynchronous. Each plays a role in the success or failure of an online curriculum, but more importantly, each can play a role in an institution's bottom line. The pandemic pushed more institutions to switch to online and hybrid courses, particularly those referred to as synchronous courses. This chapter will examine the positives and negatives associated with the increase in moving courses to various online formats. This includes typical explorations on student engagement and technology-based issues.","PeriodicalId":152340,"journal":{"name":"Education Reform in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125661995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}