From Hurricanes to Pandemics: The Pivot to Online Education in the Bahamas

dc.contributor.authorRobertson, Robert
dc.coverage.placeNameBahamas
dc.coverage.spatialCaribbean and Americas
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-18T22:55:23Z
dc.date.available2022-08-18T22:55:23Z
dc.date.issued2022-09
dc.description.abstractPCF10 Sub-theme: Building Resilience // Globally, countries are addressing the unprecedented and dramatic impacts of Covid-19 pandemic on the economy, health, education and society itself. In the Bahamas, an added challenge relates to managing the recovery efforts from the major Hurricane Dorian that devastated the Abacos and Grand Bahama in Fall 2019. This paper describes the efforts of the Bahamas to enhance the workforce-ready skills necessary to address the considerable demands of companies rebuilding the hurricane-ravaged northern islands and simultaneously competing in a post-Covid-19 environment. Specifically, this paper uses as an example the community college system, the Bahamas Technical & Vocational Institute (BTVI), to illustrate advancing workforce skills on-line. In particular, BTVI used resources available through the Commonwealth of Learning including faculty training and open education resources. This COL/BTVI partnership was an instrumental component in a systematic, fact based approach to dealing with the dual impacts of the hurricane and the pandemic. Based, in part, on the faculty training BTVI initiated a series of shorter, stackable, industry certified online courses. // This presentation will describe the application of the online response to quickly address the need to pivot to a different mode of course delivery. // Paper ID 6690
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.56059/pcf10.6690
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11599/4316
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCommonwealth of Learning (COL)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectDisaster Management
dc.subjectResilience
dc.subjectOnline Learning
dc.subjectEmployable Skills
dc.titleFrom Hurricanes to Pandemics: The Pivot to Online Education in the Bahamas
dc.typeWorking Paper
dspace.entity.type
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
PCF10_Paper_6690.pdf
Size:
168.35 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
PDF
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description: