Open AccessWhat if Classroom Instruction Becomes a Thing of the Past?
Author(s) -
Enrique Mu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of the analytic hierarchy process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.213
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 1936-6744
DOI - 10.13033/ijahp.v12i2.805
Subject(s) - covid-19 , face (sociological concept) , pandemic , virtual world , latin americans , mathematics education , computer science , history , sociology , psychology , political science , medicine , social science , law , virology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , pathology , human–computer interaction
Until recently, there was no doubt about what constituted a university education and how it was carried out. Suddenly, the COVID-19 pandemic occurred, and in a few weeks, not only education, but the entire world changed. In the new normal, post-pandemic world, it is possible that teaching face-to-face courses will be the exception, not the rule, in the U.S. and the Latin American and Caribbean regions. Furthermore, this virtual instruction will possibly be at massive levels with tens or hundreds of thousands of students at a time, modeled after massive open online courses (MOOCs).