Full Description
The world has spent the majority of 2020 enduring an unpreceded crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of this crisis has been enormous, and the situation has yet to be resolved. It is still difficult to anticipate when the pandemic will end and how our lives will have changed after the crisis.
Higher educational institutions (HEIs) have also had to undergo tremendous transformation, in particular, changing a conventional educational, teaching, and learning system to a digital and online mode and cancelling or postponing important events such as graduation and entrance ceremonies and entrance examinations. In addition, a number of HEIs have been facing financial constraints due to reduced enrolment, particularly from overseas. Students have missed opportunities to meet their family and friends, causing profound psychosocial impact and stress for all concerned.
Simultaneously, however, the situation has given HEIs a good opportunity to consider their disaster preparedness, response, and recovery capacity on campus. Some surveys have highlighted a lack of preparedness for pandemic and other hazardous risks beyond natural hazards. Safety issues are a top priority at HEIs because they bring together a number of students, faculty, and staff.
This book covers the experiences and lessons learned from HEIs in preparedness, response, and recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic to prepare for such calamities beyond natural disasters in the future. The book consists of 15 chapters divided into three major sections. They highlight the importance of HEIs' governance issues in disaster risk management, examine the challenges that HEIs have faced during the pandemic and the implementation of new teaching and learning methodologies, and provide innovative responses and preparedness by HEIs based on science and technology, respectively.
Contents
Overview and Introduction to the Role of Higher Educational Institution in Disaster Risk Management.- Post-pandemic Management in Higher Educational Institutions.- New Perspectives of Campus Safety Initiatives in Universities.- Regional Overview of Lessons from the Asia-Pacific Regions.- Regional Overview of Lessons from Africa: the Impact on the Awareness of the Sector's Resilience.- Disaster Risk Governance in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Central America: the Case of Guatemala.- Looking Ahead While Leaving No One Behind: Resourcefulness and Resiliency among North American Universities.- University Networking in Improvising Academic Resilience to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences from Bangladesh.- New Role of Universities: Experiences from Taiwan.- Vigorous, Vital, Vulnerable: Universities and COVID-19, Aotearoa New Zealand.- Applying New Technologies and Innovation in Taiwan.- Applying New Technologies and Innovation in Hong Kong: Teaching Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM) Using Massive Open Online Course to Enhance Resilience in Higher Educational Institutions.- Scope of Civil Society and University Partnership in Enhancing Resilience.- Private Sector and Higher Education Institution Partnerships to Enhance Resilience in the Philippines: The Experience of the National Resilience Council.- Impacts, opportunities and potentials in HEIs: During and Post Pandemic Perspectives.
