A New Teaching Paradigm Amid Covid-19 Crisis In Algeria: Changes And Challenges

Abstract

Due to covid-19 pandemic, educational system across the globe shifted from face-to- face to virtual teaching delivery. This study investigates the effect of corona virus outbreak on Algerian higher education, and explores Algerian lecturers and learners’ perceptions of emergency online education. It seeks to address the major challenges and barriers in conducting distance education amid covid-19 pandemic. A descriptive approach was used to review 67 articles on Covid-19 published in the Algerian Scientific Journal Platform (ASJP) that tackled attitudes, experiences, measures, preparedness, perceptions, and the feasibility of the virtual teaching-learning modes during the lockdown period. Based on data that depicted the concurrent procedures so as the performances. Results indicated that remote education experience faced several infrastructures related to teachers on the one hand, and to learners on the other hand. Parts of these hindrances are technical- based problems, whilst the other parts pertain to psychological, financial and social difficulties.