The Impact of Digital Learning during the Covid-19 pandemic on Tertiary Education Students in Fiji
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Digital learning has become a major concern in most education sectors around the globe. Most institutional leadership have invested a lot of resources to ensure that the teaching and learning processes of their various institutions are digitalized and attuned with the demands of the 21st century of learning and teaching. This study considered the impact of tertiary educational digitalization in Fiji during the Covid-19 pandemic. The objectives of the research was to examine learning pedagogies relevant in the 21st century; the relationship between digital learning and digital natives; the Use of digital learning platforms in tertiary institutions in Fiji; both positive and negative impacts of digital Learning on tertiary students and the challenges faced by students during the sudden transition from the traditional face-to-face learning mode to online instructional delivery of learning and teaching in Fiji.
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