Pathology

Sociology

Pedagogy

Disease

Online learning

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Multimedia

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Pandemic

Outbreak

Political science

Virology

Educational technology

Humanity

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Public relations

Computer science

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Medicine

Interactive Learning Environments

The World Health Organization has declared Covid-19 as a pandemic that has posed a contemporary threat to humanity. This pandemic has successfully forced global shutdown of several activities, including educational activities, and this has resulted in tremendous crisis-response migration of universities with online learning serving as the educational platform. The crisis-response migration methods of universities, faculty and students, challenges and opportunities were discussed and it is evident that online learning is different from emergency remote teaching, online learning will be more sustainable while instructional activities will become more hybrid provided the challenges experienced during this pandemic are well explored and transformed to opportunities.

Covid-19 pandemic and online learning: the challenges and opportunities