Covid-19 pandemic and online learning: the challenges and opportunities

The World Health Organization has declared Covid-19 as a pandemic that has posed a contemporary threat to humanity. This pandemic has successfully forced global shutdown of several activities, including educational activities, and this has resulted in tremendous crisis-response migration of universities with online learning serving as the educational platform. The crisis-response migration methods of universities, faculty and students, challenges and opportunities were discussed and it is evident that online learning is different from emergency remote teaching, online learning will be more sustainable while instructional activities will become more hybrid provided the challenges experienced during this pandemic are well explored and transformed to opportunities.

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The Covid-19 pandemic has posed a contemporary threat to humanity and forced global shutdown of various activities, including education. Universities have migrated to online learning as a crisis-response measure, and the challenges and opportunities for universities, faculty, and students have been discussed. It is evident that online learning will be more sustainable.