Online Academics in Pakistan: COVID-19 and Beyond

Nazia Mumtaz, Dr. and GhulamSaqulain, Dr. and Nadir Mumtaz, Mr. (2021) Online Academics in Pakistan: COVID-19 and Beyond. Pakiatan Journal of Medical Sciences, 37. 283``-287. ISSN 1682-024X

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Abstract

COVID-19 is a menace for Pakistan’s fragile and overburdened health care system and infrastructure,
insidiously permeating the socio-economic fabric. Globally complete to partial shutdown of educational
institutions has been enforced, transitioning from face to face to online academics. Academic institutes
are floundering to withstand the brunt. Therefore, the current study was conducted to attempt to review
and highlight the impact and challenges posed by transition from conventional to online academics and
how to approach them, in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic with the perspective of developing countries
like Pakistan. For this purpose, search for relevant literature using search engines and websites including
Google, Google Scholar and Web of Science as well as Medline database was conducted with keywords
“Covid-19, academics, mental health, social impact and e-learning and combination of words”. Thirty two
English language, full text articles published in the last ten years from 2010 to 2020 were selected for
the literature review. With this literature review, we conclude that this lockdown has caused significant
distortion in the academic world yet unequal interruption in learning with significant disruptions in
internal assessments and qualification examinations with developing countries like Pakistan, compounded
by a compromised educational system. However, COVID-19 is spurring the case for conversion to online
academics and developing countries like Pakistan are poised to develop reliable, cost effective and secure
online academic system whether it is bane or boon.
KEYWORDS: COVID-19, Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, Education, Online Academics.

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