COVID-19 Affecting ISLN

 Author: Ayedi Nihel

COVID-19 affecting ISLN

 

By Ayedi Nihel

 

Coronavirus had a number of effects on ISLN. One of the consequences  was the struggle to offer online programs or to protect the full rights of those who were impacted. We cannot deny the administration's efforts  to mitigate the repercussions  of the  Covid-19 pandemic in  our institute,  “ Be quick, and you will have no regrets”,as one student impacted by covid-19 put it.

 

 Coronavirus Outbreak ‘s impact on ISLN

To begin with, Universities are locations where students sit close to each other, but the spread of the virus has had an influence on this unique system,  and  ISLN was no exception.

Education officials  have been compelled to cancel classes and move to online learning in recent weeks ,due to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic . However the crisis has exposed the persistent economic and racial inequities  that prevent equal access to these essential public goods. The best approach to ensure that students maintain access to learning was to use online learning. It was their solution to lessen the immediate impact of ISLN’s closure, particularly in terms of ensuring educational continuity. However,  this  was not the case for all of the students.

                    

Other precautions have been adopted as a result of the emergence of this disease to restrict interaction, preserve social isolation and preserve interpersonal social distance. Temperature measurement,  sterilization of our Institute and training  students on proper protocols ,such as  wearing bibs.. all of these things  were done, but their implementation was not strictly followed. It was accompanied by a certain amount of  neglect .

 Students did not take these instructions seriously  and the administration did not protect the full rights of affected students by COVID-19 who were dismissed from their mid-semester tests  and confined to  El Mouradi Mahdia Hotel , despite receiving  phone calls from the administration reassuring  them to return, only to discover that  no one was protecting their rights.

Measures and solutions

•       our institute should ensure that students and staff are well-protected

•       The institute should provide resources for high_quality distant learning, that is also affordable, develop a daily cleaning  and routine  disinfection of the institute’s  environment, as well as measures like immunization checks, the effectiveness of symptoms reporting, monitoring, fast testing and tracing suspicious  cases

•       There was no evaluation of the impact  of policies and strategies, a study on the efficiency of the distant learning system should be conducted. According to the students , remote learning courses are insufficient in terms of efficiency and technological faults in the system have a negative impact on their motivation to learn

Administrators should  implement changes. They should analyze the steps taken by  their peers  who have already taken action  in order to better  understand and deal with  the challenges they may face. They should also act quickly to safeguard their institute and students .The disease’s spread is predicted to increase before it improves.

 To sum up, despite the negative effect of  the covid-19 outbreak ,we cannot deny ISLN’s efforts because   we can use this situation  to help our country bridge the digital divide by narrowing the gap between students who have access to the Internet and devices at home, and those who do not.

  



 


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