Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in fundamental alterations that triggered social and economic crises. Unfortunately, the spread of the coronavirus likewise caused a dramatic disruption in the delivery of education services worldwide. As a response, many countries had to implement various safety measures such as nationwide lockdowns and school closures. The consequences of the pandemic were recognized in the teaching and learning processes as well as adjustments in the practices of administration and management of education services. As the largest educational disruption in human history, the pandemic signified a demand for an emergency preparedness, response, and recovery mechanism (EPRRM) contingency plan that may assist the education machinery in continuing the services despite emergencies and crises. This chapter reviewed the literature on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic to draw a roadmap on how to develop an education EPRRM contingency plan by merging three core processes: learning, teaching, and administration.
TopMain Focus Of The Chapter
The focus of this chapter is to conduct literature research to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the processes of teaching, learning, and administration in higher education institutions (HEIs), and the relevance of the education EPRRM contingency plan, and determine how the plan can be created. The following review questions guided this chapter:
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What are the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on educational institutions' teaching, learning, and management?
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What are the parties included in the education EPRRM frameworks for learning institutions?
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How are the various parties integrated into the education EPRRM frameworks?
Key Terms in this Chapter
Learning Gap: It refers to the disparity between what a student has learned and what a student was expected to learn at a particular age or grade level.
Duo-Factor Theory: More commonly known as the Two-Factor Theory of Motivation, it is a model developed by Frederick Herzberg in 1959 to describe the relationship between motivation and dissatisfaction.
Social Isolation: It is an objective lack of social contacts between an individual and society.
Contingency Planning: It is a process of devising a detailed proposal to assist an organization in responding to an event that may or may not happen.
EPRRM Contingency Plan: A type of contingency plan used by educational organizations as their Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery Mechanism.