Education during COVID-19 and beyond: are we moving to digital era of education: a commentary article

The Corona pandemic imposed a new reality on all fields, including education, and many countries began to move towards distance education as a lifeline, in order to protect students and professors from the pandemic and at the same time maintain the continuation of education. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the biggest disruption in the global education system. COVID-19 affected about 1.6 billion students in most of the countries around the world. However, the COVID-19 crisis has resulted in the emergence of innovation in the education sector and yielded different crisis management practices in confronting its effects on education, including the widespread of distance learning tools and methods. The present paper discusses the effect of COVID-19 on education at a global context, the global efforts to contain the crisis effects on the educational sector, and how the rely on technology during COVID-19 period is transforming the education from traditional pattern to a digital form that might change the shape of the teaching and learning across the world.