Education in Crisis has its own terminology and policies, technology has a great impact on education, especially during the Pandemic. All educational institutions had shifted online in order to sustain their education system but in different ways, approaches and models depending on their capacities and capabilities. A paradigm shift was needed in order to continue teaching and learning while a high percentage of learning loss was found in many schools and universities. Despite of all the challenges that educators faced during the pandemic, many technological and pedagogical skills were developed and a new opportunity for digital transformation was opened in order to achieve equity, justice and quality.
This book is presenting the experiences of different universities and countries in remote learning during the pandemic in order to drive lessons related to contexts and cultures to be able to plan for the future of education. Analysing the past will help us to predict the future and plan strategically for it, otherwise, institutions will keep repeating the same mistakes.
Eleven chapters are presented in this book explaining the reflections of the researchers and practitioners on their tools for sustaining their education during the pandemic from students, teachers, and governments’ perspectives. These cases were presented as conference papers in the third international conference for teaching and learning that was conducted in May 2022 at An-Najah National University in blended mode. Presenters were either in the presence or presented virtually via webinar sessions. The conference’s main theme was the future of education in the era of post COVID-19.
Many researchers and academics expect that education after the Pandemic will be different from education before the pandemic since the gained knowledge and skills could not be neglected, on the contrary governments and policymakers should build on it in order to participate in achieving the fourth sustainable development goal related to the quality of education.
We would like to express our gratitude to all authors and contributors to this book who were committed to participating in writing this book and gave their time and effort to finalize it. A special thanks to all learners around the world who continue to ask for better education in order to contribute to building a peaceful healthy world to be able to live together.