Requirements and Challenges Brought Due to Pandemic in Academia

This section deals with the challenges which arose due to the upheaval that introducing emergency remote learning lend to at different levels in the society. In addition, the requirement for technology engagement, digital affordance, cultural competence as well as resources were necessitated. Recreating an accommodating environment for learning led to question the readiness and adaptability of students, teachers, schools as well as parents. Whether digital media is just an accessory for the phase or if it enhances the pedagogy and will retain its glimmer in the future is a bone of contention and we are still to see it. The need to balance the social, emotional, and psychological learning affordance is challenging and this has been presented in this chapter.