The Effect of COVID-19 on Education

Hoofman, Jacob; Secord, Elizabeth

doi:10.1016/j.pcl.2021.05.009

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“…The school interruptions have not only denied children these benefits, but have enormously increased the stress on their caregivers, who are ill-equipped to meet these needs. [15] School interruptions should cease, given that transmission of COVID-19 can be prevented in most education settings, and the evidence that school transmission fuels community transmission is negligible. [16] Loss of caregivers and extended family structures With the staggered rollout of the vaccine programme in SA, the relative proportion of younger adults who have died from COVID-19 has increased.…”

Section: School and Education Interruptionmentioning

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Children caught in the long shadow of COVID-19

Dangor

Naidoo

Saloojee

et al. 2021

SAJCH

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Despite the more transmissible delta variant being associated with higher rates of COVID-19 in unvaccinated adolescents, children have remained relatively spared from severe disease. Nevertheless, children are indirectly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which threatens to have far-reaching consequences. The effect of disruptions of seasonal patterns of circulation of respiratory pathogens on future immunity against such pathogens, childhood immunisation programmes, and HIV and tuberculosis treatment programmes poses a threat to the future wellbeing of children. Furthermore, the economic devastation caused by the pandemic, including an increase in unemployment, gives rise to numerous challenges, such as food insecurity, which is likely to worsen childhood nutritional status. Also, COVID-19 has ongoing effects on the mental wellbeing of children, driven in part by the interruption of schooling and other opportunities to socialise. An increase in psychological illnesses has manifested in children consequent to the stresses of the pandemic, lockdowns, caregiver deaths. In this article, we highlight the indirect effects of COVID-19 on children, and suggest solutions to mitigate against the long-term sequelae. A focused health, nutrition, education and child protection response is required from government and healthcare practitioners to safeguard the health and wellbeing of South African children.

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Section: School and Education Interruptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Children caught in the long shadow of COVID-19

Dangor

Naidoo

Saloojee

et al. 2021

SAJCH

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“…Since COVID-19 outbreak has hit in 2019, the education division has almost completely changed the way of TnL from all levels. Due to this situation, most of the education division practiced an online TnL process instead of physical meeting before (Clark et al, 2021;Hoofman & Secord, 2021). Generally, the main purpose of education is to convey knowledge and information.…”

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“…The World Health Organization (WHO) announced a new epidemic outbreak recognized as SARS-CoV-2 then it officially named as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the 12th January 2020 (Allam et al, 2020). The first case of COVID-19 was found in Malaysia and traced back to three Chinese nationals who previously had close contact with an infected person in Singapore (Clark et al, 2021;Hoofman & Secord, 2021). Meanwhile the first Malaysian was confirmed with COVID-19 on the 4th February 2020.…”

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Study on Factors that Contribute towards Open Distance Learning Contentment in Mathematics among UiTM Tapah Students: Exploratory Factor Analysis

Azhar¹,

Jamian²,

Hamzah³

et al. 2021

IJARBSS

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The number of positive cases raised over 553 cases on the 16th March 2020. Thus, the Prime Minister of Malaysia announced a Movement Control Order (MCO) starting from 18th March to 31st March 2020. After two weeks, the teaching and learning (TnL) process implemented with a new learning policy at home through online learning and UiTM started Open Distance Learning (ODL) on 12th April 2020 in order to complete the courses in the given period. There are lack of universities practicing with ODL before including UiTM Tapah. Teaching Mathematics via online was very challenging as students are accustomed to the method of Face to Face (F2F) learning since early education. In addition, students were commonly less proficient in spelling and mathematical calculations compared to reading skills. The educators must understand students' background and identify the factors which may affect the learning process. Therefore, this study intends to identify the factors that contribute on students' contentment towards ODL during COVID-19 pandemic. A set of questionnaire constructed using Google form consists of Personal Information (5 items) and ODL information (32 items) sections. Then, the Google form link is shared via Whatsapp and Telegram application. A sample of 336 students who experienced learning Mathematics course through ODL from various faculties in UiTM Tapah were responded to the questionnaire. This study applied convenience sampling method. This study executed Descriptive Analysis and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). It found that there are five factors that contribute towards ODL Contentment in Mathematics among UiTM Tapah students which were Online Learning Readiness, Self-Directed Learning, Technologies, Internet, and Tools, Skills and Acceptance and Motivation for Learning.

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“…The exponential increase in the number of severe COVID-19 cases and associated deaths has required awareness and proactive actions with respect to diagnosis and possible therapeutic treatments [ 5 , 6 ]. In addition, COVID-19 pandemic was primarily responsible for dramatic changes in the teaching at all levels, including teaching at university [ 7 – 10 ].…”

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Teaching during COVID-19 pandemic in practical laboratory classes of applied biochemistry and pharmacology: A validated fast and simple protocol for detection of SARS-CoV-2 Spike sequences

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The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) is still a major health issue. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the university teaching to consider in high priority the switch from in-presence teaching to remote teaching, including laboratory teaching. While excellent virtual-laboratory teaching has been proposed and turned out to be very useful, the need of a real-laboratory in-presence teaching is still a major need. This study was aimed at presenting a laboratory exercise focusing (a) on a very challenging therapeutic strategy, i.e. SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics, and (b) on technologies that are playing a central role in applied biochemistry and molecular biology, i.e. PCR and RT-PCR. The aims of the practical laboratory were to determine: (a) the possibility to identify SARS-CoV-2 sequences starting from a recombinant plasmid and (b) the possibility to discriminate cells with respect to the expression of SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein. This activity is simple (cell culture, RNA extraction, RT-qPCR are all well-established technologies), fast (starting from isolated and characterized RNA, few hours are just necessary), highly reproducible (therefore easily employed by even untrained students). We suggest that this laboratory practical exercises should be considered for face-to-face teaching especially if the emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic is maintained. The teaching protocol here described might be considered in order to perform fast but meaningful in-presence teaching, making feasible the division of crowded classes in low-number cohorts of students, allowing the maintenance of the required social distance.

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The Effect of COVID-19 on Education

Cited by 158 publications

References 37 publications

Children caught in the long shadow of COVID-19

Children caught in the long shadow of COVID-19

Study on Factors that Contribute towards Open Distance Learning Contentment in Mathematics among UiTM Tapah Students: Exploratory Factor Analysis

Teaching during COVID-19 pandemic in practical laboratory classes of applied biochemistry and pharmacology: A validated fast and simple protocol for detection of SARS-CoV-2 Spike sequences

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