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Adoption of Online Learning during the Covid19 Pandemic Lockdown by Universities in Garowe

In: Higher Education - New Approaches to Accreditation, Digitalization, and Globalization in the Age of Covid

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  • Tumwebaze Alicon Auf
  • Omer Abdi Hamdi

Abstract

In response to the Covid-19 outbreak the world closed and therefore countries like Somalia have not been exceptional. The government of Somalia and all higher education institutions adopted crisis intervention measures on implementation of blended learning approaches like online teaching and learning. In this chapter we explore the process and challenges of adopting online learning in response to the world wide lockdown due to the pandemic. Given that this was an abrupt requirement, the survey was interested in finding out whether universities adopted and adapted easily. Researchers compared findings from previous studies and theoretical inclinations on online learning. Results indicate that the adoption of online learning among universities in Garowe was as a matter of crisis management whereby administration, lecturers and students were all not ready and had no prior grounding in this pedagogical learning platform. Just like previous studies online learning implementers have continued to encounter several challenges like intermittent internet network, cost of gadgets and facilities, inadequate skills of both the instructors and students, aspects of communication and satisfaction from stakeholders. With the research survey in Garowe, results show that this is still pervading and therefore need for more rigorous contextualised research on this subject.

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  • Tumwebaze Alicon Auf & Omer Abdi Hamdi, 2022. "Adoption of Online Learning during the Covid19 Pandemic Lockdown by Universities in Garowe," Chapters, in: Lee Waller & Sharon Waller (ed.), Higher Education - New Approaches to Accreditation, Digitalization, and Globalization in the Age of Covid, IntechOpen.
  • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:250452
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.99941
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    Keywords

    Online learning; Covid19 Pandemic Lockdown; Process and Challenges of Implementing;
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    JEL classification:

    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions

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