MOOCS and 100 Days of COVID: Enrollment surges in massive open online astronomy classes during the coronavirus pandemic [0.03%]
疫情期间大规模开放在线天文学课程 enrollment 大涨
Chris Impey,Martin Formanek
Chris Impey
One side-effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has been increased enrollment in online classes. The paper explores the surge in activity from March through June 2020 in two massive open online classes (MOOCs) on Astronomy, offered by Coursera and...
Identity in the disrupted time of COVID-19: Performativity, crisis, mobility and ethics [0.03%]
COVID-19中断时期的认同：表演性、危机、流动性与道德
Rob Cover
Rob Cover
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a global cultural crisis, experienced through various losses of everydayness, including particularly restrictions on mobility and the sudden emergence of new fears and anxieties over infection. This pap...
Charles Prempeh
Charles Prempeh
The goal of this paper is to discuss the role religions are playing to stem the tide against the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Ghana. Focusing on the ubiquity of religions in Ghana, the paper argues that religious experts deploy their...
Analysis of the COVID-19 impacts on employment and unemployment across the multi-dimensional social disadvantaged areas [0.03%]
COVID-19对多维社会弱势地区就业和失业影响的分析
Anzhelika Antipova
Anzhelika Antipova
This is the study of economic impacts in the context of social disadvantage. It specifically considers economic conditions in regions with pre-existing inequalities and examines labor market outcomes in already socially vulnerable areas. Th...
Teachers voices on school reopening in Indonesia during COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
疫情期间印度尼西亚教师对学校重新开放的看法
Avianto Amri,Yusra Tebe,Ayu Siantoro et al.
Avianto Amri et al.
The COVID-19 situation and school closure has brought intense impact to millions of students and teachers. However, there is a growing pressure from parents, teachers, and children for schools to reopen and the national government has devel...
Synchronous teaching and asynchronous trauma: Exploring teacher trauma in the wake of Covid-19 [0.03%]
同步教学与异步创伤：探究COVID-19后教师的创伤体验
Matthew J Etchells,Lillian Brannen,Jordan Donop et al.
Matthew J Etchells et al.
Following the onset of COVID-19, major subsections of our global society have shifted and mutated from the status quo of operation, especially in the field of education. A system that served far more social functions than just basic literac...
The coronavirus trade-off - Life vs. economy: Handling the trade-off rationally and optimally [0.03%]
冠状病毒的选择题 – 生活还是经济：如何理性且最优地应对这一选择题
Ali Zeytoon-Nejad,Tanzid Hasnain
Ali Zeytoon-Nejad
The recent coronavirus outbreak has made governments face an inconvenient trade-off choice, i.e. the choice between saving lives and saving the economy, forcing them to make immensely consequential decisions among alternative courses of act...
Andrew Tzer-Yeu Chen,Kimberly Widia Thio
Andrew Tzer-Yeu Chen
Digital contact tracing has been deployed as a public health intervention to help suppress the spread of Covid-19 in many jurisdictions. However, most governments have struggled with low uptake and participation rates, limiting the effectiv...
Solidarity and polarisation regarding COVID-19 and related risks - A thematic analysis of comments from an international survey [0.03%]
关于COVID-19及相关风险的团结与两极化——来自国际调查的评论的主题分析
Sigrid Stjernswärd,Stinne Glasdam
Sigrid Stjernswärd
COVID-19 represents a risk to people's life and societies in their current shapes and functions, with institutionalised responses redefining everyday life. Crises in society can induce fear and tensions that can unite and divide people, ind...
Daniel Adu Ankrah,Andrew Agyei-Holmes,Alfred Asuming Boakye
Daniel Adu Ankrah
The 2020 State of the Food Security and Nutrition World report suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic may render 83 to 132 million people food insecure. The global south has been projected to be adversely affected by COVID-19 in terms of food ...