Abstract
Distance education and e-learning became widespread and necessary with the miracle of the internet and its increasing influence among the individuals much within the days of a pandemic outbreak of COVID-19. Many universities, institutions, and learners encourage using e-learning and begin growing in this field. This paper examines the merits and demerits of distance and online education teaching for English literature educators and students. Technology and increasing demand for education, traditional strategies do not meet the growing requirements of academic communities and virtual education and e-learning with all their benefits and drawbacks attempt to meet these needs. This paper investigates e-teaching and e-learning infrastructure, needs, benefits, and limitations, in addition to opportunities and challenges of online education within the days of the coronavirus occurrence. The research method of the current study was conducted through a library study along with empirical study and descriptive analysis. New challenges of English literature educators and students in pandemic COVID-19 were identified and new approaches to remove the constraints are suggested. The results confirm online education is a constant educational need not limited to pandemic period and have to be compelled to develop productivity and creativity in learning with the appearance of recent technologies such as computers, the web, and social networks. These skills development can assist educators to find solutions for these difficulties in various areas of educational, cultural, and social issues. Blended learning can contribute to post-pandemic English literature classes and sustainable higher education.
Highlights
Millions of world populations died during the COVID-19 pandemic
There are many research works, studies, and articles on e-learning and distance education in general and some examine specific subjects for example mathematics, statistics, language teaching merely, not language literature teaching but a few of them focus on literature; the present study investigates merits and demerits, and needs for online literature classrooms
Data were collected through literature review and empirical methods based on practical learning and teaching experiences within the seven online literature classes and students’ reflections.(The average number of students in each class 25-35 ) The data analyzed based on descriptive-analysis method to cover the objectives of the study and respond to the following questions: what the merits and challenges of virtual education are for literature classrooms at universities during pandemic Covid-19 and what the needs and requirements for remove instructional and learning barriers as solutions for online English literature classes
Summary
Millions of world populations died during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many countries of the world have set strict rules for the welfare, services, and daily activities of people so that they can reduce the number of their patients with less presence in different places to prevent the spread of the disease. Some jobs cannot be closed/postponed to another time, one of which is education. Schools and universities cannot be closed with a disease that it is unclear how many years human beings will be able to overcome and have a certain safety. The only available solution is to use cyberspace and online education, which has been employed in all countries. Online and distance education these days involuntarily and compulsorily cover more than 90% of the world’s education. Private and public academic and JCSLL 3 (1):
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