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The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated social distancing at every level of society, including universities and research institutes, raising essential questions concerning the continuing importance of physical proximity for scientific and…

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Amidst the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic, distance education, where the learning process is conducted online, has become the norm. Campus-based programs and courses have been redesigned in a timely manner which was a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Abbas Cheddad , Christian Nordahl

Physics lab courses permanently undergo transformations, in recent times especially to adapt to the emergence of new digital technologies and the Covid-19 pandemic in which digital technologies facilitated distance learning. Since these…

Distance education has a long history. However, COVID-19 has created a new era of distance education. Due to the increasing demand, various distance learning solutions have been introduced for different distance education purposes. In this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Priyanga Dilini Talagala , Thiyanga S. Talagala

Residential colleges and universities face unique challenges in providing in-person instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Administrators are currently faced with decisions about whether to open during the pandemic and what modifications…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-22 Philip T. Gressman , Jennifer R. Peck

The recent SARS-COV-2 virus outbreak has created an unprecedented global health crisis! The disease is showing alarming trends with the number of people getting infected with this disease, new cases and death rate are all highlighting the…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Sujit Bhattacharya , Shubham Singh

Virtual Reality has become a significant element of education throughout the years. To understand the quality and advantages of these techniques, it is important to understand how they were developed and evaluated. Since COVID-19, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Fozlur Rahman , Marium Sana Mim , Feekra Baset Baishakhi , Mahmudul Hasan , Md. Kishor Morol

Information overloading requires the need for summarizers to extract salient information from the text. Currently, there is an overload of dialogue data due to the rise of virtual communication platforms. The rise of Covid-19 has led people…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Lakshmi Prasanna Kumar , Arman Kabiri

Technological advances can bring many benefits to our daily lives, and this includes the education and training sectors. In the last years, online education, teaching and training models are becoming increasingly adopted, in part influenced…

This study investigates whether the virtualization of academic conferences in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the gender structure of conference participants. We explored this question utilizing authorship data from the Web of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-17 Agnieszka Olechnicka , Adam Ploszaj , Ewa Zegler-Poleska

During the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries have experienced some form of remote education through video conferencing software platforms. However, these software platforms fail to reduce immersion and replicate the classroom experience.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Yuyang Wang , Lik-Hang Lee , Tristan Braud , Pan Hui

Studies in astroparticle physics are actively developed all over the world. It is clear that the effectiveness of the work depends strongly on the information exchange rate and on the overall coordination of this activity. An international…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-03 M. Yu. Khlopov

The COVID19 pandemic has demonstrated a need for remote learning and virtual learning applications such as virtual reality (VR) and tablet-based solutions. Creating complex learning scenarios by developers is highly time-consuming and can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Claire Palmer , Ben Roullier , Muhammad Aamir , Frank McQuade , Leonardo Stella , Ashiq Anjum

This paper describes a test and case study of self-evaluation of online courses during the pandemic time. Due to the Covid-19, the whole world needs to sit on lockdown in different periods. Many things need to be done in all kinds of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Uranchimeg Tudevdagva , Bazarragchaa Sodnom , Selenge Erdenechimeg

As a result of the spread of COVID-19 during spring 2020, many colleges and universities across the US, and beyond, were compelled to move entirely to remote, online instruction, or shut down. Due to the rapidity of this transition,…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-06-19 Matthew Dew , Jonathan Perry , Lewis Ford , Dawson Nodurft , Tatiana Erukhimova

In early 2020, the virus SARS-CoV-2 evolved into a new pandemic, forcing governments worldwide to establish social distancing measures. Consequently, people had to switch to online media, such as social networks or videotelephony, to keep…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Sebastian Cmentowski , Jens Krüger

The world has seen in 2020 an unprecedented global outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, a new strain of coronavirus, causing the COVID-19 pandemic, and radically changing our lives and work conditions. Many scientists are working tirelessly to find a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Pierre Le Bras , Azimeh Gharavi , David A. Robb , Ana F. Vidal , Stefano Padilla , Mike J. Chantler

Education has traditionally been classroom-oriented with a gradual growth of online courses in recent times. However, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated the shift to online classes. Associated with this…

General Economics · Economics 2020-07-15 Manini Ojha , Mohammad Arshad Rahman

Adaptive remote instruction has led to important lessons for the future, including rediscovery of known pedagogical principles in new contexts and new insights for supporting remote learning. Studying one computer science department that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Maxwell Bigman , Yosefa Gilon , Jenny Han , John C Mitchell

In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, educational activities had to be done remotely as a way to avoid the spread of the disease. What happened was not exactly a shift to an online learning model but a transition to a new approach called…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Kiev Gama , Carlos Zimmerle , Pedro Rossi