The Online Education Mode and Reopening Plans for Chinese Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mini Review

Cen, Xuanzhen; Sun, Dong; Rong, Ming; Fekete, Gusztáv; Baker, Julien S.; Song, Yang; Gu, Yaodong

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2020.566316

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“…As the outbreak of the COVID-19 during Chinese schools' winter vacation, all the school students were at home. It was notable that China's Ministry of Education issued school closure policies for the entire country between January 20 and February 8, and announced on January 27, 2020 that the 2020 spring semester for schools would be postponed to late April due to the COVID-19 outbreak, affecting a large number of students across primary and post-secondary grades in China (11). Some recent studies have discussed the influences of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on Chinese adolescents' anxiety or depressive symptoms and sleep behavior (12,13).…”

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Associations Between Poor Sleep Quality, Anxiety Symptoms, and Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese Adolescents Before and During COVID-19: A Longitudinal Study

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Guo

et al. 2022

Front. Psychiatry

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Since the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, adolescents' emerging mental health and behavior issues have been an international public health concern. This longitudinal study aimed to examine the situation of poor sleep quality, anxiety, and depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents and to explore the associations between them before and during COVID-19. A total of 1,952 middle and high school students as eligible participants at baseline (pre-COVID-19, Wave 1; response rate: 98.79%), 1,831 eligible students were followed up at Wave 2 (October 2019 to December 2019, pre-COVID-19; retention rate: 93.80%), and 1,790 completed the follow-up at Wave 3 (during the COVID-19; retention rate: 97.80%). The mean age of the baseline students was 13.56 (SD: 1.46) years. The differences in anxiety and depressive symptoms between Wave 1, Wave 2, and Wave 3 were not statistically significant. The proportion of students with poor sleep quality increased over time, from Wave 1 (21.0%) to Wave 3 (26.0%, OR = 1.37, 95% CI = 1.17–1.60, P = 0.001) and from Wave 2 (21.9%) to Wave 3 (OR = 1.29, 95% CI = 1.11–1.51, P < 0.001). The cross-lagged generalized linear mixed models revealed that the concurrent and cross-lagged associations of poor sleep quality with anxiety symptoms across the three waves were significant (P < 0.05) and vice versa. Only a marginally significant positive cross-lagged association between poor sleep quality at Wave 2 and depressive symptoms at Wave 3 was found (standardized β estimate = 0.044, SE = 0.022, P = 0.045). Sleep quality was adversely affected during COVID-19, and the bidirectional associations of poor sleep quality with anxiety symptoms could not be neglected.

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Associations Between Poor Sleep Quality, Anxiety Symptoms, and Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese Adolescents Before and During COVID-19: A Longitudinal Study

Wang

Guo

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Front. Psychiatry

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“…The abrupt shift to online delivery in crises intends to provide temporary access to instruction without deliberate and advanced design (Hodges et al, 2020). As emergency remote instruction manifests differently in divergent contexts, it is of great value to delineate the picture of the online educational ecosystem created by the outbreak of COVID-19 when a large number of online students were involved but the digital transformation was quite rushed (Cen et al, 2020;Hodges et al, 2020;Moser et al, 2021).…”

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“…In China, an emergency plan called "Suspending Classes without Learning Termination (SCWLT)" was launched in February 2020. By April 8 th , 2020, it was reported that about 270 million students in China have been engaged in online classes during the COVID-19 lockdown (Cen et al, 2020). This study was conducted in the city of Yichang, which is a middle-sized city of Hubei province with 401.76 million population and 300 km away from Wuhan.…”

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Exploring the Online EFL Classroom Ecology of Middle Schools During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Zhang

Yang

2022

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The outbreak of COVID-19 has induced an abrupt shift from face-to-face instruction to online delivery mode for academic continuity. This research aims to explore the ecology of the pandemic-induced online English as foreign language (EFL) classrooms in Chinese middle schools and perceptions held by the English teachers, students, and parents. By analyzing data collected from 10, 576 questionnaires and eleven interviews, this study revealed how these participants played their respective parts in online EFL classroom ecology. Also, it was found that teachers’ evaluations of students’ learning performance (learning engagement and outcomes) and teacher-student interactions (in-class interaction, after-class interaction, and teachers’ feedback about homework) and their overall satisfaction of the online EFL classrooms were lower than that of the other two groups. In addition, major concerns of the participants about online EFL teaching and learning were identified, such as students’ vision damage and inadequate self-discipline, lack of face-to-face communication, and unstable Internet connection. Through presenting and discussing the research findings, this study is expected to provide implications and insights for foreign language educators, learners, and parents worldwide in adapting to online classrooms during public crises.

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“…School closure has aroused serious challenges for students, teachers, and families, as the shift toward an online education has not been easy to adapt for any of them (Cen et al, 2020;Kim and Asbury, 2020). However, those students with special educational needs (SEN) and their families are facing even greater problems.…”

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Beyond the School Walls: Keeping Interactive Learning Environments Alive in Confinement for Students in Special Education

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying safety measures, including confinement, has meant an unprecedented challenge for the world population today. However, it has entailed additional difficulties for specific populations, including children and people with disabilities. Being out of school for months has reduced the learning opportunities for many children, such as those with less academic resources at home or with poorer technological connectivity. For students with disabilities, it has entailed losing the quality of the special attention they often need, in addition to a more limited understanding of the situation. In this context, a case study was conducted in a special education classroom of a secondary education school. This class started implementing Dialogic Literary Gatherings with their special education students before the COVID-19 confinement and continued online during the confinement. Qualitative data was collected after a period of implementation of the gatherings showing positive impacts on the participants. The case study shows that interactive learning environments such as the Dialogic Literary Gatherings can provide quality distance learning for students with disabilities, contributing to overcome some of the barriers that the pandemic context creates for the education of these students.

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The Online Education Mode and Reopening Plans for Chinese Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mini Review

Cited by 29 publications

References 19 publications

Associations Between Poor Sleep Quality, Anxiety Symptoms, and Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese Adolescents Before and During COVID-19: A Longitudinal Study

Associations Between Poor Sleep Quality, Anxiety Symptoms, and Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese Adolescents Before and During COVID-19: A Longitudinal Study

Exploring the Online EFL Classroom Ecology of Middle Schools During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Beyond the School Walls: Keeping Interactive Learning Environments Alive in Confinement for Students in Special Education

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