The Impact of COVID-19 on the Pattern of Higher Education in Bangladesh: A Study of Selected Universities to Puzzle out the Challenges

Md. Hasan Mia

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Md. Hasan Mia

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COVID-19, pandemic, higher education, elearning, digitalization, bangladesh

Abstract

The COVID-19 has a drastic effect on every sphere of life. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the pattern of higher education in Bangladesh. The study tried to identify the prospects and challenges, scrutinize the impact on higher education, and sort out the digital solutions to overcome the challenges of virtual transition of the higher education system in Bangladesh based on the D& M model. In this mixed research approach, the data has been collected from WHO; UNESCO; IDCR,& 152 students of both the private and public universities of Bangladesh. The study revealed the most popular online platform, student readiness and access, problem & challenges, etc.; descriptive analysis has been conducted to compare the mean; a pair simple statistics to analyses the pre and post COVID situation in case of cyber security; to correlate the independent variables to the dependent variables and test the hypothesis a pears on correlation and simple linear regression has been conducted.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Pattern of Higher Education in Bangladesh: A Study of Selected Universities to Puzzle out the Challenges. (2021). Global Journal of Management and Business Research, 21(A6), 5-25. https://journalofbusiness.org/index.php/GJMBR/article/view/3388

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