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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 32, June 2021 ﺔﻴﺑﺮ #

The Journey of the Shortest Academic

Semester

Mohamed AlSayed, Second Level, Political Science

It is the twelfth of the evening on Thursday the and then it was judged as the shortest period in the
sixth of May of 2021, quiet prevails in the room, course of his academic life.
and everyone in the house went to his bed, and this This person, a student at the Faculty of Economics
university student only stayed awake, thinking and Political Science at Cairo University, now feels
about the lecture that he did not attend and the task that he is in a race against time. In addition to the
that he did not finish preparing, and guesses the pressures posed by distance education, some of
scenarios for the results of the special ministerial them are represented in the weakness of the
meeting To regulate the progress of the educational Internet and thus difficulty in accessing educational
process. content, and others in the difficulty of direct
Before he fell asleep, he decided to take out his interaction and communication between students
phone to look at one of the college's WhatsApp and their teachers, and some of the difficulties that
groups, and as soon as he opened the group, he the college tries to overcome. The advance of the
found it full of discussions and conversations, to examination date added to this pressure. After there
move from the quietness of his room to the noise of
the virtual world that he hates but is forced to live was sufficient time to complete the required tasks -
with. He turned off his phone and fell asleep which are not commensurate with the available
Our friend woke up excited and looked at his time - a double effort is now required to complete
watch. But past his first lecture, he didn't care them in less time and with high efficiency so that
much. Where the professor is supposed to the grades are not lost, and despite the
download the registration on the platform provided disadvantages of applying this system, it showed
by the university as one of the tools for the distance several positive points, the most important of which
learning process. While he was busy with the is that it became the basis on which We build on it
events of his day, he was shocked by the decision later for the digital transformation in education.
to take final exams until the beginning of next July,

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