Open AccessCOVID-19 Lockdown Impact on Libyan University Instructors' Scholarly Research Engagement
Author(s) -
Muftah Hamed
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of world englishes and educational practices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2707-7586
DOI - 10.32996/jweep.2020.2.5.2
Subject(s) - covid-19 , medical education , psychology , field (mathematics) , medicine , virology , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , mathematics , pure mathematics
The present study attempted to investigate if COVID-19 lockdown has an impact on scholarly research engagements among Omar Al-Mukhtar University instructors in Libya. Ninety-three university instructors responded to a two-item web-based survey designed via Google forms from 11 May to 12 June 2020. The findings revealed that the COVID-19 lockdown negatively affected the majority of participants' scholarly research engagements. It is concluded that these results could be attributed to three reasons 1) difficulty of collecting field-based data, and 2) stressful life events due to the COVID-19 lockdown, 3) engagement in professional development webinars and online courses.