2020
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2020.1825347
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COVID19 – resilient education in the islands

Abstract: This paper reflects on the University of the South Pacific Tuvalu Campus experience. Whilst COVID-19 poses pedagogical and financial issues in a university already experiencing management crisis, it also creates an opportunity for the strengthening of institutional systems and relationships that brought out the resilient ability it has to bounce back stronger and better than before.

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“…It indicates that the shift from face-to-face classes to remote learning was not easy neither for instructors nor for students who were not prepared. Lagi ( 2020 ) reflected the experience on the University of the South Pacific Tuvalu Campus. They reported that, even though Tuvalu is one of the COVID-19 free countries, the world pandemic situation affected their learning on campus by the decrease of the financial aid provided by 12 countries.…”
Section: Foundation Of the Studymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It indicates that the shift from face-to-face classes to remote learning was not easy neither for instructors nor for students who were not prepared. Lagi ( 2020 ) reflected the experience on the University of the South Pacific Tuvalu Campus. They reported that, even though Tuvalu is one of the COVID-19 free countries, the world pandemic situation affected their learning on campus by the decrease of the financial aid provided by 12 countries.…”
Section: Foundation Of the Studymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The pandemic would open a time of educational experiments, inventing new education (Guo et al, 2020). In addition to emphasizing the opening to the new, the points indicated were facilitating internationalization, reducing the costs of education, and creating new forms of learning, as well as the diverse social mission of the university and its relationship with the environment (Bebbington, 2021; Chemi, 2020; Lagi, 2020; Leask, 2020; Moja, 2021; Takayama, 2020).…”
Section: A Review Of Literature On Distance Tertiary Education During...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It found, in the context of one American university course which migrated from face-toface classes to synchronous online sessions in March 2020, that while students acknowledged the flexibility and use of multimedia during the Zoom classes, they did not prefer the online experience due to the many distractions while learning from home, technical issues using the video conferencing application, and a perception of a lower quality of interaction with peers and teachers. Some studies focused on learning technology utilization during the pandemic at the institutional level (Lagi, 2020). It was found that there may be some shortage of funds to rapidly migrate to online learning and to train teachers on the aspects of orchestrating remote and emergency learning.…”
Section: Recent Work Related To Teaching and Learning During Covid-19mentioning
confidence: 99%