Coronavirus Pandemic & Online Education : Impact on Developing Countries

In this book, eight substantive chapters examine how ?developing? countries such as Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Mexico confronted the pandemic-driven online education shift. As local instruments, resources, and preferences of specific universities meshed with global platforms, ideas, and knowledge, the book addresses several questions. Was the mix too flaky to survive increasing competitiveness? Were countries capable enough to absorb mammoth software technological changes? Throwing a ?developed? country (the United States) in for contrast, the book elaborates on the inequities between these countries. Some of these inequalities were economic (infrastructural provisions and accesses), others involved gender (the role of women), political (the difference between public and private universities), social (accessibility across social spectrum), and developmental (urban-rural divides). In doing so, new hypotheses on widening global gaps are highlighted in the book for further investigation.

Author: Imtiaz A. Hussain, Jessica Tartila Suma

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: Jan 02, 2023

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 9811968527

ISBN-13: 9789811968525