Purpose

The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has already had a significant disruptive impact on the society, posing challenges to the provision of education across the world. Due to this crises governments over the world have temporarily closed educational institutions to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. Accordingly, educational institutions are deploying innovative emergency remote teaching (ERT) and virtual learning (VL) approaches for students to study at home. Digital technologies are being employed as a positive response to COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this study draws on existing literature and theories of online learning and change management to provide evidence on the state of art of ERT and VL.

Design/methodology/approach

This current study employs a systemic review of 53 sources to provide descriptive analysis leveraging on secondary sources from the literature and document reports on theories of online learning and change management, COVID-19, pandemic, emergency remote teaching and virtual learning.

Findings

Findings from this study present the theories of online learning and change management and significance and challenges of adopting ERT and VL during the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, our findings present application platforms that are being deployed for the adoption of ERT and VL during and after COVID-19 pandemic. Lastly, the findings explore potential strategies as recommendations to be employed to improve current and future adoption of ERT and VL in educational institutions.

Originality/value

This study draws on existing literature and adds to existing body of knowledge by exploring the adoption of emergency remote teaching and virtual learning during and after COVID-19 pandemic. This study provides a timely guide on the potential of emergency remote teaching and virtual learning in higher education as a response to COVID-19 crises now and into the future. This study discusses the theories of online learning and change management and also offers recommendations to educationalists and policymakers in educational institutions on addressing the crisis.

中文翻译：

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检查在 COVID-19 大流行期间和之后采用紧急远程教学和虚拟学习的情况

目的

2019 年冠状病毒 (COVID-19) 大流行已经对社会产生了重大破坏性影响，对世界各地的教育提供了挑战。由于这场危机，世界各国政府暂时关闭了教育机构，以帮助减少 COVID-19 的传播。因此，教育机构正在部署创新的紧急远程教学 (ERT) 和虚拟学习 (VL) 方法，供学生在家学习。数字技术被用作对 COVID-19 大流行的积极回应。因此，本研究利用在线学习和变革管理的现有文献和理论，为 ERT 和 VL 的现状提供证据。

设计/方法/方法

本研究对 53 个来源进行了系统审查，利用文献和文档报告中关于在线学习和变革管理、COVID-19、大流行、紧急远程教学和虚拟学习理论的二手资料，提供描述性分析。

发现

这项研究的结果介绍了在线学习和变革管理的理论，以及在 COVID-19 大流行期间采用 ERT 和 VL 的意义和挑战。此外，我们的研究结果展示了在 COVID-19 大流行期间和之后为采用 ERT 和 VL 而部署的应用平台。最后，研究结果探索了潜在的策略，作为建议，用于改善教育机构当前和未来对 ERT 和 VL 的采用。

原创性/价值

本研究借鉴了现有文献，并通过探索在 COVID-19 大流行期间和之后采用紧急远程教学和虚拟学习来增加现有知识体系。这项研究为应对当前和未来 COVID-19 危机的高等教育中的紧急远程教学和虚拟学习的潜力提供了及时的指导。本研究讨论了在线学习和变革管理的理论，并为教育机构的教育家和政策制定者提供了解决危机的建议。