The Comfort of Home: The Advantages of Online Learning During Covid-19
Contributing Authors: Angel N. Skinner, Dena Patel, Darrick Rawlings
This article is the effort of collaboration between Angel Skinner, Daniya Noreen, and Darrick Rawlings.
Short Bio:
Angel N. Skinner has 12 years of teaching experience and has been teaching for different community colleges in the State of Mississippi. Angel attained a Master’s degree in the major of Science in Workforce Education and Leadership in 2008.
Derrick Rawlings is from Jackson, Mississippi. He is an Accountant and Auditor with the Department of Finance and Administration.
Daniya Noreen is a pharmacist who has a passion for writing content and a tech enthusiast.
How it started
In late January 2020, a man from Washington State returned from Wuhan, China with symptoms of the virus. Since then, the coronavirus has spread rampantly, affecting over 6,420,000 citizens nationwide in the U.S. as of September 11, 2020. When the virus initially began to spread across the country in March 2020; many schools across America responded by switching to e-learning for the remainder of the spring semester. However, by fall, many of these same institutions returned to in-person instruction; despite…