Higher Education in the Age of COVID-19: The New Normal

Niloy Sarkar; Narayan Chandra Debnath

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The current disastrous impact on the society due to dangerous COVID-19 outbreak, everyone ispreparing for the post COVID-19 world and also for future pandemics. Academicians are trying toadopt available alternative ways for the future of education delivery in the post COVID-19 and theconcept of new ‘university’ in a new ‘normal’ are coming in picture. Blended learning is becomingpopular rapidly in many countries, in absence of traditional methods. Among all subsystems ofblended learning, the flipped classroom concept is gaining maximum attention. Purpose: With thedevelopment of new teaching–learning system, technological advancement is also required to supportthe new methods of teaching. Software development has taken tremendous momentum after theoutbreak of COVID-19. Still, the developments on Integration Level testing and System Level testingrequire a considerable attention. In addition, based on some serious limitations observed inFunctional testing as well as in Structural testing methods, software engineers and developers find itimpossible to achieve 100% reliability for any large, complex and intelligent software systems. It isworthy to mention that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) are going to playsignificant role in the delivery of tomorrow’s higher education world.

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