COVID-19 pandemic has had a hard impact on all educational sectors where access to schools, educational institutions, and university campuses is forcibly halted. In this context, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research urged teachers to move from face-to-face to online learning to mitigate the spread of the virus, keep up the regular schedule and save the academic year. This paper highlights the issues, perspectives, and pedagogical practices of the instructors’ overnight change, switching pre-existing face-to-face learning to the online environment. It also refers to the challenge of those learners lacking intercultural communication skills needed to participate virtually. The researchers used the documentary research method to develop their leading research question and analyse existing research documents and other e-sources of information such as university and government reports, newspapers, PDF books, papers, and YouTube channels to collect relevant data for this study. As a result, we could illustrate the Algerian universities’ response and analyse government and university sources such as newspaper articles and ministry decrees. Therefore, we believe that the emergency to digitalize teaching in our higher institutions is a significant opportunity to keep engaged in the online environment now and after the pandemic and take advantage of the universities’ best pedagogical practices. Thus, prepare for the online shift to better address the digital divide by promoting equal opportunities for all students to access the Internet, possess and effectively use Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) to fully participate in the modern educational system.

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质疑阿尔及利亚五所大学数字挑战中跨文化交流技能的缺失

COVID-19 大流行对所有学校、教育机构和大学校园的准入被强制停止的教育部门产生了严重影响。在这种情况下，高等教育和科学研究部敦促教师从面对面学习转向在线学习，以减轻病毒的传播，保持正常的时间表并节省学年。本文重点介绍了教师一夜之间改变的问题、观点和教学实践，将预先存在的面对面学习转变为在线环境。它还指那些缺乏虚拟参与所需的跨文化交流技能的学习者所面临的挑战。研究人员使用文献研究方法来开发他们的主要研究问题，并分析现有的研究文件和其他电子信息来源，如大学和政府报告、报纸、PDF 书籍、论文和 YouTube 频道，以收集本研究的相关数据。因此，我们可以说明阿尔及利亚大学的反应并分析政府和大学的来源，例如报纸文章和部令。因此，我们认为，我们高等院校迫切需要数字化教学，这是一个重要的机会，可以在当前和大流行之后继续参与在线环境，并利用大学的最佳教学实践。因此，