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Since the World Health Organization announced the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, curbing the spread of the virus has become an international priority. It has greatly affected people's lifestyles. In this article, we observe and analyze…

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This study aims to reveal the most important challenges and difficulties that refugee students faced in Jordanian universities (e.g., Yarmouk University, AL Al-Bayt, and the Private Zarqa University) due to the COVID-19 pandemic through…

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Although online education has become a viable and major component of higher education in many fields, its employment in engineering disciplines has been limited. COVID-19 pandemic compelled the global and abrupt conversion of conventional…

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Currently, the world is in the midst of a severe global pandemic, which has affected all aspects of people's lives. As a result, there is a deluge of COVID-related digital media articles published in the United States, due to the disparate…