International Experience of Using E-Learning during Pandemics and Military Conflicts
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critical conditions, electronic technologies, development, war conditions, global educational systemAbstract
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and certain military conflicts and wars in different regions have become recent critical conditions in the social development of humanity, which has led to the active spread of the electronic knowledge acquisition system. Therefore, the experience of studying the peculiarities of e-learning implementation during a pandemic and military conflicts has become relevant. The purpose of this study is to implement a comprehensive review and analysis of existing scientific works on the use of e-learning in crisis conditions. For this purpose, PubMed, Scopus, WebofScince were chosen as the main scientific and metric databases, and Ebsco and Sherpa Romeo were used as additional ones. The criteria for including the literature are based on relevance, relevance to the research topic, and the availability of a detailed methodology. In addition, the emphasis was placed on the works of less than 5 authors and publications written since 2014. Thus, based on these criteria, 62 items were selected for analysis. The analysis was based on thematic and comparative methods. The results characterize the dynamics of the emergence of scientific papers on e-education. It is determined that high rates of interest are present in 2020 and 2022 (both 27.42% of the total). It has also been found that modern countries use various electronic tools to adapt to the crisis: learning platforms, management systems, electronic communications, and electronic journals. The conclusions show that international experience shows that the global education system is adapting to the challenges. E-education has also proven to be effective during military conflicts, in particular the experience of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Ukraine and other countries, which indicates the widespread use of e-education elements.
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