Impact of Covid-19 on Higher Education Sectors in Sri Lanka: A Study based on South Eastern University of Sri Lanka
Impact of Covid-19 on Higher Education Sectors in Sri Lanka: A Study based on South Eastern University of Sri Lanka
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Covid-19 对斯里兰卡高等教育部门的影响：基于斯里兰卡东南大学的研究
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10.36941/jesr-2020-0132
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2020
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N. Lumna
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A. Rameez;M.A.M. Fowsar;N. Lumna
现代科学技术的变革使在线教育成为当代世界教育体系的一个组成部分。尽管在线学习系统在2019冠状病毒病之前的时期具有一定的影响力，但在2019冠状病毒病时期，它已成为高等教育部门教学和学习过程中不可或缺的一部分。由于新型冠状病毒疫情对传统高等教育体系构成巨大挑战，全球各国政府迫切需要将在线教育纳入其高等教育体系。然而，在2019冠状病毒病之前，在线教育在斯里兰卡高等教育部门并不受重视。但是，由于新型冠状病毒肺炎导致大学关闭，促使斯里兰卡政府推广在线教育模式，作为在危机期间继续高等教育活动的替代解决方案。因此，在线教育目前已成为斯里兰卡高等教育部门的重要组成部分。然而，高等教育部门，特别是斯里兰卡的大学，在成功地延续在线教育方面面临着许多障碍和挑战。在此背景下，本研究试图深入了解COVID-19对斯里兰卡东南大学教学过程的影响，以及该大学在COVID-19期间延续在线教育系统所面临的挑战。研究结果表明，该大学在网上交付方面遇到了一些挑战，通过在线模式进行实践测试的问题，评估，考试和监督的论文。该研究进一步强调了有关在线教学和学习环境以及员工和学生缺乏在线教学和学习技能的问题，这些问题被认为是斯里兰卡东南大学在新冠肺炎疫情期间顺利开展教学和学习过程的关键。研究认为，大学应该专注于混合教育系统，以解决工作人员和学生面临的在线教育模式的问题，使教学和学习过程更有效。
Modern scientific and technological changes have enabled online education as an integral part of the education system in the contemporary world. Although online learning system was influential in the pre-Covid 19 periods to a certain extent, it has become an inevitable part of the teaching and learning process of higher education sectors during the Covid-19 era. As the Covid-19 posed enormous challenges on the traditional higher education system, there was a desperate need globally for every government to incorporate online education into their higher education system. However, online education was not given much importance in the Sri Lankan higher education sector before the Covid-19. But, the closure of universities due to Covid-19 had prompted the government of Sri Lanka to promote the online mode of education as an alternative solution to continue higher education activity during a crisis. Thus, online education has presently become an essential component of Sri Lanka's higher education sector. Nevertheless, there are many obstacles and challenges confronting the higher education sectors, particularly in the universities of Sri Lanka to perpetuate online education successfully. Against this backdrop, this study attempts to give an insight into the impact of Covid-19 on the teaching and learning process of South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, and the challenges faced by the university in perpetuating online education system during the Covid-19. The findings of the study show that the university encountered several challenges in terms of online delivery, problems related to practical test via online mode, assessment, examination and supervision of the thesis. The study further highlights issues concerning online teaching and learning environment and a lack of online teaching and learning skills among staff and students that were considered critical to the smooth functioning of teaching and learning process of the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study argues that the university should focus on a hybrid education system to address the issues of online mode of education confronted by staff and students to make the teaching and learning process more effective.