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After two years of online learning, minor changes happened in some tiny places which we may not always notice. These changes may impact the school management, education arrangement, and curriculum design: what do students expect from their teachers, and the school? Are they expecting forever online learning, and getting their degree completely online? In this study, we examined 93 final-year students from the school of computing science which mainly used work-based learning applied to learn pedagogy. We analyze their viewpoint on how COVID-19 changed their understanding of teaching and learning: what is the role of teachers and students? And how do they see the arrangement for the internship program? We found that over 92% of students agree that a creditable degree can better secure a job;over 68% of the students believed that face-to-face teaching is still a better choice, but at the same time, over 73% wish to have the materials recorded so that they can access them at their convenience time. We also examined some of the course design elements, especially those related to the internship program, to achieve a possible curriculum improvement for the students in the Asia Pacific region. © 2022 ACM.
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In this research, we studied distance education practices in high schools which were closed by the Turkish Ministry of National Education (MNE) due to the COVID 19 pandemic and evaluated comparatively within the scope of the physics course. In this context, a comparative evaluation has been made by examining live lecture applications on television (EBA TV), remote live lessons (EBA live lessons), and another internet application (Zoom). The research covered a 13-week period starting with the interruption of the face-to-face education on March 16, 2020, until June 12, 2020. This research included six physics teachers, 15 science teachers, 20 parents of high school students, and 1.275 students in three different Anatolian high schools and four middle schools in Trabzon. In this study, we used the scanning model. The collected data were analyzed by calculating weekly average follow-up values and percentage values. At the end of this research, it was determined that the viewership of the physics lessons on EBA TV in the 1stweeks of distance education was 89% and that the viewership of EBA TV decreased considerably as the process continued. On the other hand, in online education applications and practices, it is seen that there were important problems arising from the lack of technological appliances, family situations, assessment, and evaluation. As a result of this study, we present proposed solutions for these problems. © 2022 Journal of Open Humanities Data. All rights reserved.
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Background: South East Asia was one of the frst regions affected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing COVID-19 however data on the impact of COVID-19 infection in patients with systemic rheumatic diseases (SRD) in South East Asia remains scarce. Objectives: To evaluate basic demographics, clinical features and outcomes of COVID-19 infection in patients with SRD from a tertiary rheumatology centre in West Malaysia. Methods: A retrospective observational study of 77 patients with SRD diagnosed with COVID-19 between 1st December 2020 to the 31st of December 2021 was performed. Demographic details, type of SRD, number and type of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARD), dose of glucocorticoid, comorbidities, SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (type and number of doses) hospitalisation, oxygen requirement, type of COVID-19 related complication and death were recorded. Results: A total of 55 (71%) patients were hospitalised and 9 (12%) died. Mean age at time of COVID-19 diagnosis was 51 ± 14. Amongst these patients, 32 (42%) were Chinese, 30 (39%) Malays and 15 (19%) Indians. Majority of these patients had infammatory arthritis (58%) which included rheumatoid arthritis and seronegative spondyloarthropathy. The most common DMARDs used was meth-otrexate (51%), hydroxychloroquine (46%), sulfasalazine (22%), lefunomide (13%), azathioprine and mycophenolate mofetil (5% each). Two patients were on Janus Kinase (JAK) inhibitors and 3 on biologic DMARDS (tumour necrosis factor inhibitor, IL-6 inhibitors and IL-17 inhibitors). There were 38 patients (49%) vaccinated with two doses of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (Pfzer n=29, CoronoVac n=7 and AstraZeneca n=2) prior to admission and amongst those unvaccinated, 15 (20%) contracted COVID-19 before the vaccine was released in Malaysia. Among hospitalised patients, those more than 60 years and those with more than one comorbid had a higher chance of admission (n= 21, 88%;p=0.036 and n=28, 88%;p=0.001) and death (n=8, 33%;p<0.001 and n=7, 22%;p<0.001). Comorbidities associated with higher risk of hospitalisation was diabetes mel-litus (85%, p=0.06), hypertension (92%, p<0.001) and coronary artery disease (100%, p=0.03) and those associated with death was obesity (33%, p=0.01) and hypertension (22%, p=0.007). Use of conventional DMARD, JAK, biologics and glucocorticoid were not associated with hospitalisation or morbidity. However, we found that patients who developed acute respiratory distress syndrome secondary to COVID-19 were mostly on sulfasalazine compared to other DMARDS (35%, p=0.01). Conclusion: In our multiethnic cohort of patients with SRD we found that age and multiple comorbidities such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity and coronary artery disease were associated with hospitalisation and morbidity. Disease activity and glucocorticoid use which have been shown to be associated with morbidity [1] was not seen in our cohort. The association between sulfasala-zine and poor outcomes have been reported [2] however further studies are still needed to investigate the causal relationship between the two.