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COVID-19 has created numerous modifications to human life and altered people's outlooks on life. In this study, the effects of Corona on education, family life, students, and teachers were examined, and the findings were discussed. First, the concept of online education, which has become an integral part of our lives, was emphasized. The transition to online education's challenges and the overall studies on the subject were examined. During the second phase, the positive and negative effects and outcomes of the pandemic on family life were documented. In the final section, the impacts of education on educators and students, the two inseparable components of education, were underlined, and the obstacles encountered in this process, technical challenges, and disparities in education between urban and rural locations were studied.
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BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has exhausted the employees of hospital center and had a negative impact on medical students. AIM: The aims are to show the efforts of Occupational Medicine to provide support for healthcare workers and to increase student's interest in O.M. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Out of the total number of employees of the Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka, which is 3500, 275 of them claim for recognition of COVID-19 occupational diseases in 2022. The 6th-year medical students of the Rijeka Faculty of Medicine, 130 in total and 22 sanitary engineers were surveyed by the quality service regarding their satisfaction with the Occupational Medicine classes. Statsoft Statistica 10 was used to calculate the results. RESULT(S): All HCW are recognized as having COVID-19 as a professional disease. Older age correlated with greater absenteeism. Hospital employees are dissatisfied, tired, they demand work benefits, contraindications for shift work, night work, work in COVID centers, and requesting maternity leave. Many also quit their jobs the hospital management is looking for and hiring new employees, who quickly leave due to difficult working conditions and low incomes. Occupational medicine also has a problem with students. During the pandemic, classes were held online. Interest in classes declined, a small number of students joined the lectures, but all responded to the survey. The answers showed a lack of interest in the Occupational Medicine course. With subsiding of the pandemic, it would be obligatory to continue "live" classes, take students on a tour of industrial facilities, and cancel the failed evaluation of teachers. CONCLUSION(S): Easing of working conditions for HCW and changes in teaching is necessary.Copyright © 2023, Scientific Foundation SPIROSKI. All rights reserved.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many changes in educational settings which have been quite demanding. Shifting to online education has resulted in many erratic changes for students, which could have threatened their learning motivation. Therefore, this study examined perceived challenges, learning motivation and academic procrastination during the COVID-19 pandemic among 458 students of public and non-public universities in Albania, and the data were collected through online questionnaires. The findings reveal a strong relationship between academic procrastination, perceived challenges and learning motivation. Furthermore, a multiple linear regression model revealed that academic procrastination was influenced by perceived challenges and motivation. Sociodemographic variables, such as age and gender, were examined. The results are relevant for understanding learning motivational processes and critical variables that influence students' procrastination, academic achievement and adjustment. © 2023 Blerina Reci Xhakolli and Oriola Hamzallari.
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This research aims to present the context and impact that the Thai education system has experienced from the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand. It consists of three research objectives: (1) to study the context of the impact on academic achievement from the COVID-19 pandemic in higher education, (2) to develop a model for clustering the academic achievement of students in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand, and (3) to compare the academic achievement of students in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand. The research data were 43,230 transactions (1961 students) from four educational programs at the Faculty of Business Administration and Information Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-ok, the results showed that the context of the impact on the education system among tertiary learners has decreased in the number of graduates during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, students graduating during the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand had higher levels of academic achievement than those in normal circumstances. The findings reflect those learners who achieved academic achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic were more persevering and tolerant than those in the traditional system. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered significant changes in education systems worldwide. Until the lockdown in March 2020, teachers in Montenegro had solely conducted lectures in lecture theatres. Their previous use of online teaching aids was sporadic and was based on their assessments regarding the need to use them. During the pandemic, however, teachers were forced to switch to online lectures virtually overnight, thus turning the traditional model of education into a virtual model. This study explores Montqenegrin higher education teachers' perceptions of the challenges of implementing online teaching during the lockdown period. A total of 120 teaching staff from all faculties in four universities in Montenegro completed a questionnaire entitled: ‘Challenges and opportunities of online teaching in Montenegro'. The analytical findings revealed that all teachers experienced challenges when providing online lectures.
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In this study focusing on distance teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic, 47 higher education faculty in Italy and the USA responded to a survey circulated internationally between July and November 2021. In both contexts, perceptions of the institutional support and professional training for distance education (DE) were found to be similar in many ways, although the experiences with DE's opportunities and challenges proved quite different. Respondents in the USA reported being more at ease with DE, while Italian faculty reported greater recognition of the barriers to DE. HE faculty in both contexts equally recognized the importance of professional development for DE. Possible reasons for these similarities and differences are discussed.
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Several studies have highlighted the mental health challenges of children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period, especially, in relation to an escalation of depression, anxiety, and stress. Whilst this may be the reality, it is unfortunate that most of the studies adopt a psychopathological point of departure often portraying doom and gloom. Adopting a social ecological resilience perspective the author focuses on the resilience of school-attending black South African youth during the COVID-19 lockdown period. The Child and Youth Resilience Measurement (CYRM-28) was completed by 4165 respondents in grades 4 to 12 (females = 2431, 58.4%;males = 1734, 41.6%) from the Gauteng, Mpumalanga and North-West provinces in South Africa. The findings indicate that school psychologists must consider gender, age and school levels when they design school-based resilience programmes for black South African children. Particular emphasis should be placed on contextual resilience highlighting spiritual, religious, cultural and educational factors. A major lesson for school psychologists is to ensure that school-based resiliency programmes adopt a whole school approach that includes children, their families and local communities for the successful promotion of resilience during adverse situations as postulated by the social ecological resilience model. [ FROM AUTHOR]
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COVID-19 added a new dimension to the relationship between school professionals and students’ families: a virtual one. To explore this shift and the associated challenges, we performed a bibliomet-ric analysis of research literature published on the topic to the end of 2021. Our guiding question was: what kind of themes are emerging in literature on the school-family relationship in association with COVID-19? Our search of Scopus, Web of Sciences and ERIC retrieved 286 articles. Using VOSviewer, we conducted a bibliometric analysis based on article keywords to map the field, pro-ducing a visual representation of networks of themes. Four clusters emerged: “educational players”, “distance learning”, “partnership” and “social context”. Unsurprisingly, the analysis suggests a shift in the roles of parents and teachers, with the digital sphere becoming central to their relationship. Beyond this, the crisis has cast light on both existing problems and the potential of a partnership based on a genuine sharing of responsibility. © 2022 Paola Dusi, Audrey Addi-Raccah.
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Disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic has caused major upheavals for manufacturing, and has severe implications for production networks, and the demand and supply chains underpinning manufacturing operations. This paper is the first of its kind to pull together research on both-the pandemic-related challenges and the management interventions in a manufacturing context. This systematic literature review reveals the frailty of supply chains and production networks in withstanding the pressures of lockdowns and other safety protocols, including product and workforce shortages. These, altogether, have led to closed facilities, reduced capacities, increased costs, and severe economic uncertainty for manufacturing businesses. In managing these challenges and stabilising their operations, manufacturers are urgently intervening by-investing in digital technologies, undertaking resource redistribution and repurposing, regionalizing and localizing, servitizing, and targeting policies that can help them survive in this altered economy. Based on holistic analysis of these challenges and interventions, this review proposes an extensive research agenda for future studies to pursue.
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This research explored the challenges experienced by society during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the role thereof in the validation of Life Orientation in South African schools. The importance of Life Orientation as a subject has been questioned since its implementation in 2006. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that the skills and values taught in Life Orientation were actually needed to survive the mental and emotional impacts of the pandemic. The aim of this study was to explore the preservice teachers’ perceptions of Life Orientation, the importance of this subject and the knowledge, skills and values that are taught in Life Orientation and how these can equip society during the pandemic. The research followed a qualitative design in an interpretivist paradigm. Data were collected through an online questionnaire that preservice teachers had to complete. A group of 102 first-year Bachelor of Education students, 18 fourth-year Bachelor of Education students and 20 students in the Postgraduate Certificate in Education programme were involved in the study. Preliminary data revealed that COVID-19 challenges had a possible impact on the attitudes of 140 preservice teachers towards Life Orientation as a compulsory subject in South Africa and further concluded that Life Orientation plays a significant role in preparing learners for various challenges faced by society, not least the COVID-19 pandemic.
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As telecommunications technology progresses, telehealth frameworks are becoming more widely adopted in the context of long-term care (LTC) for older adults, both in care facilities and in homes. Today, robots could assist healthcare workers when they provide care to elderly patients, who constitute a particularly vulnerable population during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous work on user-centered design of assistive technologies in LTC facilities for seniors has identified positive impacts. The need to deal with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the benefits of this approach, but also highlights some new challenges for which robots could be interesting solutions to be deployed in LTC facilities. This requires customization of telecommunication and audio/video/data processing to address specific clinical requirements and needs. This paper presents OpenTera, an open source telehealth framework, aiming to facilitate prototyping of such solutions by software and robotic designers. Designed as a microservice-oriented platform, OpenTera is an end-to-end solution that employs a series of independent modules for tasks such as data and session management, telehealth, daily assistive tasks/actions, together with smart devices and environments, all connected through the framework. After explaining the framework, we illustrate how OpenTera can be used to implement robotic solutions for different applications identified in LTC facilities and homes, and we describe how we plan to validate them through field trials.
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Purpose: The paper focuses on examining the relationship between challenges caused by COVID-19 pandemic and employees' stress through the mediating role of family-life disturbance and work-life imbalance. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 1,556 respondents from 45 countries across all continents were included in this survey. Statistical techniques such as exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), correlations, multiple regression and bootstrapping were used to analyse the data. Findings: The results depicted that COVID-19 challenges induced stress among employees. In combination with this, family-life disturbance and work-life imbalance mediated the relationship between COVID-19 challenges and employees' stress individually as well as serially. The paper further suggests some recommendations to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 challenges on employees' stress. Research limitations/implications: The major limitation of the study was in the data collection process. As the data were collected during the time period of pandemic, so, limited respondents were approached. Also, the international and cross-sectional design of the study can limit the applicability of the results. Practical implications: The study suggests organizations and HR managers to help in balancing family and work-life of employees, so that their mind can be kept stress free. Originality/value: The study has added knowledge to the existing literature of stress created due to the COVID-19 pandemic by explaining the serial mediation of family-life disturbance and work-life imbalance between the relationship of COVID-19 challenges and employees' stress. © 2022, Emerald Publishing Limited.
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This chapter focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it's disproportionate impact on immigrants' careers and employment opportunities, and the dire need to address inequitable career development opportunities. COVID-19 has also highlighted the anti-immigrant sentiment and structural barriers that impact immigrant career experiences and outcomes. A second interrelated obstacle to immigrant career development paths are recent executive orders signed by Donald Trump in the United States against immigrants and refugees as well as global anti-immigrant and refugee policies such as Brexit and the Citizenship Amendment Act. Immigrant workers require advocacy, protection, and avenues to receive continued support during and post-pandemic. Resources for immigrant employers and employees including international resources, avenues for advocacy, and recommendations to service providers are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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COVID-19 forced extreme measures in cities worldwide, including school shutdowns and limited social contact. Semi-structured interviews with 14 Israeli music teachers were conducted to expose the challenges of teaching musical instruments and vocal during social distancing, focussing on struggles and technical challenges, teacher-student relations, and creative leveraging. The study explores solutions or advantages to online teaching offered by the participants' experience, while also stressing advantages of face-to-face lessons, which could have been taken for granted. Music educators who participated in the study reported that the pandemic forced them to accommodate teaching methods, demonstrations, and physical guidance, which required reshaping to online communication;latency and poor sound quality required compromise and adjustment. They shared perceptions of online learning, coping methods, creative approaches, attentiveness to students, temporary solutions to technical problems, and forward-looking insights. The role of the teacher as a source of empathy and human connection was highlighted, as was the need for face-to-face, intimate lessons. Findings indicate that online music lessons enable creative methods that may enrich future post-pandemic lessons, but that their positive effect on the learning process is of a short-term nature. The study’s limitations include teachers’ nationality, and future research could examine cultural and gender coping differences. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Music Education Research is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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With the unprecedented worldwide crisis of Covid-19, people with no choice have to change their lives, behaviours and the nature of their works. They have to adopt technology to continue their work, education, and communication. While more data are being uploaded, shared, processed, managed, and saved over the internet, there would be huge data generated frequently. Therefore, there is a big demand to use extra cloud capacity to access these data from everywhere at any time without restrictions. Also, to ensure use them safely and securely. Technology plays a vital role to overcome some of the challenges caused by Covid-19. For example, adopting cloud computing during pandemic has become double to handle the highest accelerating of process data through the cloud. However, the sudden and heavy use of cloud computing alerts the attack of cyber security. Therefore, this adds a threat to the security for different organisations around the world. Attackers are targeting vulnerable people who work, study, do personal business over the internet. In this research, we mainly analyse two types of data sources that have heavily uploaded to the cloud during Covid-19 time. These include data from educational institutes and business organisations. We propose a protocol with a sequence of steps-based a level of security required. We present three levels of security: high, medium, and low. Once a user or organisation identifies the desired security, the best match level of the security required will be easily selected accordingly. Our protocol is easy, affordable, and can be modified and adjusted. It can be used by a large popularity of people with different background and knowledge. © 2021, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, HIV-related services have been unavoidably disrupted and impacted. However, the nature and scope of HIV service disruptions due to COVID-19 has rarely been characterized in China. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted among 1029 HIV healthcare providers in Guangxi, China, from April to May 2020. Latent class analysis (LCA) was first used to identify HIV service disruption levels, then hierarchical multilevel logistic regression was conducted to analyze the relationships of COVID-19 challenges, institutional responses, and HIV service disruption levels adjusting for the clustering effect of institutional ownership levels. Four classes of HIV service disruption were identified, with 22.0% complete disruption, 15.4% moderate disruption, 21.9% minor disruption, and 40.7% almost no disruption. COVID-19 challenges were positively associated with the probabilities of service disruption levels. Institutional responses were negatively associated with the probabilities of being classified as "minor disruption" and moderated the association of COVID-19 challenges with complete and moderate disruptions compared with no disruption group. To maintain continuity of core HIV services in face of a pandemic, building a resilient health care system with adequate preparedness is necessary.