مقاله انگلیسی تاثیر پاندمی ویروس کرونا (کووید-19) بر آموزش
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Introduction
Theoretical background
Research model and hypotheses development
Data collection
Discussion
Theoretical implications
Practical implications
Limitations and future work
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Appendix A. Constructs and their Measurement Items
Appendix B. Loading and Cross-Loading Tests
References
ABSTRACT
To avoid the spread of the COVID-19 crisis, many countries worldwide have temporarily shut down their academic organizations. National and international closures affect over 91% of the education community of the world. E-learning is the only effective manner for educational institutions to coordinate the learning process during the global lockdown and quarantine period. Many educational institutions have instructed their students through remote learning technologies to face the effect of local closures and promote the continuity of the education process. This study examines the expected benefits of e-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic by providing a new model to investigate this issue using a survey collected from the students at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was employed on 179 useable responses. This study applied Push-Pull-Mooring theory and examined how push, pull, and mooring variables impact learners to switch to virtual and remote educational laboratories. The Protection Motivation theory was employed to explain how the potential health risk and environmental threat can influence the expected benefits from e-learning services. The findings revealed that the push factor (environmental threat) is significantly related to perceived benefits. The pull factors (e-learning motivation, perceived information sharing, and social distancing) significantly impact learners’ benefits. The mooring factor, namely perceived security, significantly impacts learners’ benefits.
Introduction
Given the growing number of reported infected cases at Chinese and international locations, the WHO Emergency Committee announced a worldwide health crisis on January 30, 2020 [1–4]. Young and healthy grownups have comparatively fewer death risks, whereas those above the 60s, and especially 80s, are at disproportionately higher risks of death [5,6]. Particular care and efforts should be taken to save extremely susceptible people such as kids, medical staff, and older people [7,8]. People with high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory disease have larger death rates [9]. The increased death rate among those groups is important to consider by supporting social distance interventions, which are ideal for protecting all population groups [10,11]