The Impact of COVID 19 on Education

There is an apparent impact of COVID 19 pandemic on educational systems and learning processes worldwide. The virus has affected schools, universities and colleges and caused many of them to near-total closing. Governments all over the world have decided to apply the system of temporary closed educational institutes in a way for containing COVID 19 prevailing. Statistics state that there are about1.725 billion learners around the world have been affected by the virus and school closing and the UNICEF confirms that there are 106 countries are currently implementing school closure.  This was aligned with having substitution school systems that depend all on virtual learning and semi-virtual education. Online learning and distant education depend on the internet and its online applications that make teachers able to communicate with the students online and provide them with explanations and discussions for different subjects as well as making tests online. These procedures have been made to confirm the social distant and at the same time this helped in making economic and societal results as many schools and universities have applied online education systems that enabled them to make good profits and continue the learning process. The impact yet was more severe on learners themselves and children in particular and families because distant learning programs were not applied as required in many educational institutions especially those in the developing countries. Distant learning needs many important things to be perfect such as strong internet line, good quality of voice and camera, available e-books and adequate timing for teaching the lessons, these conditions are not all supported by many developing countries and this affected students and their families as learning process was not being done effectively as usual. Many students are not able to communicate well online such as children in primary schools as they need face-to-face learning while families couldn't be able to provide them with the needed methods for teaching and studying. The impact of COVID 19 on education included cheating processes that prevailed among many students in developing countries where privacy and accuracy of testing is not effective and this led to fake results of many students and reduced the quality of the learning process as a result. The UNESCO made some recommendations for online learning that include examining the readiness for online learning and choosing the most effective and relevant tools such as technology solutions and local power supplies, ensuring inclusion of the programs distant learning depends on, protecting data privacy and ensuring high level of secrecy for information, addressing psychological challenges solutions and planning a study schedule for programs of distant learning. There are other conditions that should be available to ensure effective distant learning such as supporting teachers and families with applications that enable them to communicate effectively and providing applicable digital approaches that can monitor students' learning and testing processes. The impact of distant learning on education will last after the finishing of COVID 19 epidemic issue and this will be clear in mixing different online and distant learning methods within the educational programs everywhere.