COVID-19: Impact on Education and Beyond

Contents: Preface. Introduction/Nivedita Das Kundu. Section I: Teaching and Learning Experiences During Pandemic: 1. Classroom Beyond Borders: Teaching and Learning Strategies in Nigeria and Covenant University in the Global COVID-19 Lockdown/Sheriff F. Folarin and Olaniyi T. Ayodele. 2. E-teaching in Greece at the Time of COVID-19: Opportunities and Challenges/Fotini Bellou. 3. Covid-19 Lockdown Teaching and Learning Responses in Cameroon: Hurdles and Opportunities/Aloysius Nyuymengka Ngalim. Section II: Societal Effect and Schooling During Pandemic: 4. COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Canadian Society and on Teaching and Learning/Nivedita Das Kundu. 5. The Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown and the Paradigm Shift in Lecture Delivery Methods in Cameroon Universities: Problems and Prospects/Brenda Nachuah Lawyer and Emmanuel Shu Ngwa. 6. Pearls and Pitfalls of Online Teaching during Covid-19 Pandemic: Indian Perspective/Jayanta Das. Section III: E-learning and Community Concerns During Pandemic: 7. COVID-19 Lockdown and Online Classes: Challenges in ASEAN Countries/Sandeep Poddar. 8. Education During Covid-19 Crisis: Indian Perspective/Ajey Lele. 9. Impact of COVID-19 on Russian Society and on the Education System/Nivedita Das Kundu. 10. Interactions between Teachers and Students in online Learning during COVID-19 Crisis in Egypt/Taghreed EIGhandour. Appendices. Index.

COVID-19 pandemic has created the most significant disruption of education systems that history has ever recorded in all continents. Closures of schools and other learning spaces have impacted hugely on the world’s student population. The book contributes to the debate on experiences during the pandemics by portraying the virus's continued virulence, education disruption, impact on the social and economic sectors, medical concerns, and local and global responses. The book provides a variety of stimulated innovations within the education sector, approaches in support of education and training continuity, the accelerated changes in modes of delivering quality education, distance learning problems and the promising future of learning. Case Studies from different countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America have examined the massive efforts made in a short time to respond to the shocks to local and global education systems. The COVID-19 crisis and the unparalleled education disruption is far from over. So, what is the way forward? The research chapters provide experiences and new perspectives of stopping a learning crisis from becoming a generational cataclysm.