Guest Editorial: Special Issue on “Digital Library Education and Digital Literacy from a Post COVID-19 Perspective”

Carlos Enrique Montenegro Marin,
Xuyun Zhang,
Nallappan Gunasekaran,

Abstract


Recent advances in computer technologies have made digital literacy a powerful tool for contemporary modern education, especially from the post-COVID-19 perspective. In response to the global pandemic scenario, educational institutions worldwide have temporarily closed with no time durations. This national wide closure of the educational institutions has adversely impacted millions of learners around the world. As a result, there is an unprecedented transition towards distance learning paradigms. In this context, digital libraries and digital literacy have an obvious role to play in traditional learning paradigms by offering teachers and learners a knowledge base in various forms of media. During the time of pandemics, digital libraries greatly support young learners and students in difficulty with actual training and academic knowledge they need from a remote location. Support (Certified academic institutions), digital equipment (laptop, desktop, mobile phones, etc.), and the digital content (a digital platform to support teaching and learning process) are the three major components that form the key source of a digital library. Thus, it promotes e-learning by providing knowledge access to individuals everywhere.
This special issue gives an outline on the challenges Faced by students during the COVID-19 pandemic and its devasting effects on learning outcomes. Likewise, this issue acts as a platform in bringing about researchers working in education sector to for effectively efficiently develop tools and techniques to compensate the learning loss occurred during COVID-19 pandemic. In this special issue Digital library is used as a tool in enabling opportunity for users to acquire knowledge through digital information. This in turn has enhanced intellectual accomplishments of the universities and restructured the global higher-education practices with enhanced knowledge and learning. This special section includes a series of around 5 articles, and all these were selected after process of careful reviewing.


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Carlos Enrique Montenegro Marin, Xuyun Zhang, Nallappan Gunasekaran, "Guest Editorial: Special Issue on “Digital Library Education and Digital Literacy from a Post COVID-19 Perspective”," Journal of Internet Technology, vol. 23, no. 1 , pp. 109-110, Jan. 2022.

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