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The Impact of COVID-19 on E-learning: Advantages and Challenges

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision (AICV2021) (AICV 2021)

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Abstract

COVID-19 is the recent coronavirus illness in 2019, began in Wuhan city of China, and has spread quickly worldwide, making billions of individuals face the huge lockdown. The World Health Organization (WHO) proclaimed the COVID plague a pandemic. A considerable number of colleges and educational institutions over the world have either dropped all occasions or postponed those, including educational workshops, meetings, and different sports activities. Colleges and educational institutions take in-depth measures to shield all students and staff members from the exceptionally contagious illness. Due to this pandemic, the shifting to E-learning platforms became the safest option to continue the educational process. In this review, this paper introduces a summary of several prior pieces of research done about the merits and demerits of E-learning along with some global statistics and survey done by using Google forms on 82 university students (undergraduates and postgraduates) who study in UAE to determine if they oppose or support the reliance on E-learning.

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  1. Department of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    Batool M. Amarneh & Muhammad Turki Alshurideh

  2. Department of Marketing, School of Business, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

    Muhammad Turki Alshurideh & Zaid Obeidat

  3. Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan

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Amarneh, B.M., Alshurideh, M.T., Al Kurdi, B.H., Obeidat, Z. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 on E-learning: Advantages and Challenges. In: Hassanien, A.E., et al. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision (AICV2021). AICV 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1377. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76346-6_8

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