Educational Experts Perceptions Regarding Transition from Face to Face Education to Distance Learning during Corona Virus Pandemic: Qualitative Study
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The purpose of the study was to investigate educational expert's perceptions regarding the transition from face to face education to distance learning during corona virus pandemic. To answer the study questions the researchers prepared semi structured interview questions and check their validity and reliability, then concocted interviews with teachers with a rank of (expert teacher). The analysis of the interviews concluded that; the majority of the study members emphasized the importance of a shift from face to face education towards distance education during Corona virus pandemic in continuation of the educational process and its uninterrupted progress and the principle of the student's right to education, and the study sample members agreed on adopting the age phase in the transition towards distance education from the sixth primary grade The fact that students at this chronological age will be able to deal with and understand this type of education in the correct way, and the members of the study sample presented some suggested ways to improve distance education, and it was represented in the need to convince parents and students of the idea of distance education and their acceptance of this type of education as one Future solutions in education, and the study sample stressed the need to take into account the needs of students with learning difficulties.
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