COVID-19 and digitizing accounting education: empirical evidence from GCC

Sarea, Adel; Alhadrami, Abdulla; Taufiq-Hail, Ghilan Al-Madhagy

doi:10.1108/prr-10-2020-0034

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“…These measures had proved to be effective during the influenza pandemic in the US in 1918 to curb the infection by cancelation of gatherings and closure of educational institutions [6]. After the suspension of educational institutions in Bahrain on 25 February 2020 [25], universities started to use virtual classes by means of Microsoft Teams, Blackboard and other tools to facilitate access to instructional content that helped the students as well as the educators to continue the pedagogical process, communicate and live broadcast [17].…”

Section: Bahrain As the Context Of The Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Self-Efficacy on Feelings and Task Performance of Academic and Teaching Staff in Bahrain during COVID-19: Analysis by SEM and ANN

Taufiq-Hail

Sarea

Hawaldar

2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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COVID-19 has changed the way we live, communicate and work, as well as altering our feelings. The higher education sector, alongside other sectors, has been severely affected by the pandemic and its serious repercussions. Academic and teaching staff have had to work from home and convert to online teaching, a change which has been met with both negative and positive feelings. The need for new competencies and upskilling, among other challenges, has been encountered. Therefore, the objectives of this study are aligned with exploring the impact of three constructs—self-efficacy, positive feelings and negative feelings—on the performance of academic and teaching staff at public and private universities in Bahrain during the COVID-19 lockdown. Additionally, the impact of self-efficacy on these feelings was explored. A cross-sectional quantitative survey instrument was developed, validated and distributed using 83 valid responses. A two-way approach was followed to evaluate the model using the partial least squares (PLS-SEM) and multi-layer perceptron-artificial neural network (MLP-ANN) techniques. Tests support the validity, reliability and consistency of the measurement scale, as well as the validity of the postulated model. The results revealed a statistically significant relationship between the three constructs and performance. Interestingly, attention is drawn to the impact of self-efficacy on increasing positive feelings and task performance. The impact of self-efficacy on reducing negative feelings is also evident. Analyses of PLS-SEM augmented by MLP-ANN enhanced our understanding of the relationships and gave more support to the use of dual approach analyses in future research. This research adds to COVID-19 global research and the findings increase the knowledge within the literature. The implications of the study’s outcomes should be given attention from higher education authorities and management to raise staff morale and offer training to help sustain performance and mental wellbeing. Lasty, limitations and future directions are discussed.

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Section: Bahrain As the Context Of The Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Self-Efficacy on Feelings and Task Performance of Academic and Teaching Staff in Bahrain during COVID-19: Analysis by SEM and ANN

Taufiq-Hail

Sarea

Hawaldar

2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…The professors will be creating different modalities to keep things exciting and incorporate different ways of teaching and communicating in each virtual classroom. They also try to add interactivity and reflection activities into their curriculum each semester (Sarea, 2020). Globalization and innovations in Information Technology made it essential that university accounting graduates should be fluent in technical knowledge (hard skills) besides non-technical (soft skills).…”

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Accounting Education, Accounting Profession and COVID-19?

2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact, especially in terms of the many changes in regulatory and policy aspects, and in particular challenges in the accounting and education sectors. The 2020 academic year is considerably different from previous years and institutions, staff, and students are facing complex challenges. In terms of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on different countries’ education systems many differences exist. Online learning is an amalgamation of various pedagogical models instead of any one single model. The purpose of this article is to present the impact of the coronavirus on higher education in accounting, the challenges that students face in online learning and evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on the accounting profession.

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“…However, it is essential to point out that better technology does not imply better learning outcomes. Digitalization in education is needed now more than ever but the focus on humanization should be the face of this process of digital education -a process of using technology in education, so-called technological learning or e-learning (Sarea, Alhadrami, & Taufiq-Hail, 2021). Historically, accounting organisations at an international level have stressed the importance of rehabilitating accounting education, to be more relevant to practice, to produce more 'qualitative accountants'.…”

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Hybrid model in accounting education: The experience of management simulation course

Bastos

Oliveira

Caggiano

2021

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on education, he transformation of didactics and technological methods was necessary to promote students’ self-learning and motivation, alongside teachers’ tutoring, guiding students’ academic journey. This paper aims to investigate the effect of COVID-19 on digitalization accounting in higher education and explores the students’ perception of the adapted hybrid model. The study follows a qualitative approach and rely on the final-year students of the accounting and management degree of Accounting and Business of Porto Polytechnic School. Data were collected through a questionnaire from students who experienced both distance and face-to-face education and completed the course of Management Simulation. The study highlights the digitalization of accounting teaching and the pandemic’s effect on the future of digital accounting education. In sum, the hybrid model meets the needs of this practical course and can be a model to be applied in the future. Keywords: Accountant; Digitalization Accounting Education; Digital Hybrid Pedagogy; Digital Education; Human Skills.

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COVID-19 and digitizing accounting education: empirical evidence from GCC

Cited by 33 publications

References 23 publications

The Impact of Self-Efficacy on Feelings and Task Performance of Academic and Teaching Staff in Bahrain during COVID-19: Analysis by SEM and ANN

The Impact of Self-Efficacy on Feelings and Task Performance of Academic and Teaching Staff in Bahrain during COVID-19: Analysis by SEM and ANN

Accounting Education, Accounting Profession and COVID-19?

Hybrid model in accounting education: The experience of management simulation course

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