Practicing borderless Christianity: Challenges and opportunities of the Covid-19 pandemic

The challenges and opportunities presented by Covid-19 are enormous, and Christians and non-Christians could take advantage of the pandemic to craft a borderless faith tradition. The Covid-19 pandemic has provided the opportunity to have a more comprehensive and positive image of every faith tradition, creating the best of all possible worlds for future generations.

Developing a Solution for Hybrid Classroom: A Pilot Study From a Malaysian Private University

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about an opportunity for higher education institutions (HEI) to explore modes of education delivery other than face-to-face (F2F) and remote learning via fully online mode. The HEIs faced challenges for "business to resume as usual" when not all students were able to return to campus due to being held back in their home state or countries due to different stages of lockdown at their locations. At Taylor's, a hybrid learning mode was thought of to be the solution that can cater both to students who are on-campus and those who are off-campus. A pilot project based on a very practical-oriented classroom from the School of Food Studies and Gastronomy (SFSG) and Taylor's Culinary Institute (TCI) was kick-started to ensure a seamless learning experience for the students. The "pandemic pedagogy" based on real-life needs can be an opportunity to scale up learning for borderless learning in the future. This study reports on the initial development process and challenges and the findings from the pilot studies using a design-based research (DBR) approach.

A Borderless Solution Is Needed for A Borderless Complexity, Like COVID-19, the Universal Invader.

This chapter briefly describes the universal intricacies caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, from the ineffectiveness of distance measures, the massive economic impacts, and the severe mental health challenges to the failure of finding a vaccine, a therapeutic agent or even accurately diagnosing the infection. The entire world is suffering, but every country is trying to combat this pandemic individually, and this deed is the main barrier that prevents reaching a peaceful end.

Introduction on Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic: The Global Challenge.

By driving the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), coronaviruses have become a significant change in twenty-first-century medicine, healthcare systems, education, and the global economy. This chapter rapidly reviews the origin, immunopathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis, clinical manifestations, and potential therapeutics of COVID-19. It would also explore the effects of the introduction of a single virus, the so-called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), on the public health preparedness planning.