Futurology on the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on higher education
Authors
Gholamreza Zakersalehi
Publication date
۲۰۲۰/۳/۲۰
Journal
Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities
Volume
۱۲
Issue
۲
Pages
۱۸۱-۲۱۱
Publisher
Iranian Institute for Social & Cultural Studies
Description
The purpose of this article is to investigate and explain the effects of the Covid-19 crisis on higher education. Futurology as an interdisciplinary field guides the orientation of this article. The results are presented in the form of future scenarios. The findings showed that higher education experts have already accepted the fact that the COVID-19 crisis has had impacts on higher education. Moreover, in their view, these effects are not simple and have wide and diverse dimensions. On average there was a fifty percent agreement on at least one of seven preferred scenarios mentioned above. Three major trends that are most likely to occur from the respondents’ point of view are: strengthening e-learning (but not as a fundamental transformation and a complete online delivery of the content), a change in the academic lifestyle and paying more attention to sustainability. These three trends contain the most preferred scenarios.