Building bridges and walls: Education and COVID-19 in Nigeria
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Abstract
The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic in present time has widened the gaps in the education industry across the globe. Despite that COVID-19 remains new, its impact on the entire humanity is unprecedented trauma. In order to contain the Coronavirus pandemic has caused disruptions in the academic activities of schools in many countries of the world. School closures because of this pandemic has caused untold hardship academically to students by accounting for over one billion learners out of school, affecting larger percentages of the world's learner population. Therefore, this study x-rays the opportunities that the pandemic can offer our education system in Nigeria. It is not gainsaying that Coronavirus pandemic has exposed the bad state of our education sector and accumulated negative impact of its quality. Government in their successions has paid lip service to education by not invested massively on the sector. However, the novel COVID-19 has emerged to break and collapse the walls that surround our education sector and it is imperative for all stakeholders in education industry particularly teachers and students to embrace digital shift in education by digitally upgrade their technology capacities by following the rising global direction on the usage of technologies in education.
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