Is Online Learning the Future of Global Higher Education?

Abstract

Technology for learning and globalization make the business of global higher education more complicated and competitive each day particularly in the unfolding pandemic of COVID-19. Innovation and change in global university instruction require adaptive technologies in response to the demands of a knowledge economy where students are engaged in rapid technology acclimatization in a constantly changing world. As the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century unfolds, significant changes are taking place in global universities to accommodate the needs of more students, different students, and challenged students. The global pandemic has forced most of the global higher education community to offer instruction through online learning. Although universities extensively use e-learning, distance learning, online education, remote learning, or some other form of technology-driven education currently, what are the prospects of online learning in the future after the pandemic?

Moderating the Neuropsychological Impact of Online Learning on Psychology Students

“…The literature reveals that a global pandemic challenged the approaches to perform the process of teaching-learning online (Barron et al, 2021;Lemoine et al, 2021;Zalat et al, 2021). American Psychological Association (APA), when highlighting the psychological perspective of the problem, emphasised the pronounced effects of the pandemic on students' mental health and wellbeing which hindered their educational attainment and outcomes (APA, 2020).…”