Online teaching during COVID-19 Outbreak The past few days have seen increasing numbers of schools and universities across the world announce that they are moving to online-only learning. Hundreds of thousands of teachers are busy working to move their face-to-face lessons online. Designing online courses takes significant time and effort. Record your lectures – don’t…
World Health Organization Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic All details are here: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019 WHO Health Alert brings COVID-19 facts to billions via WhatsApp Updated 27 March 2020 WHO has launched a dedicated messaging services in Arabic, English, French and Spanish with partners WhatsApp and Facebook to keep people safe from coronavirus. This easy-to-use messaging service has…
Support from University College for Applied Science (HOGENT) to frontline workers fighting COVID-19 in Belgium Prepared by: Femke Dewulf University College for Applied Science (HOGENT), Belgium Last week, some employees of the FTI lab (Fashion and Textiles Innovation Lab) of HOGENT started developing various prototypes of mouth masks for UZ hospital in Ghent…
Social Workers’ “Joint Action of Three-Three for Community-Based Pandemic Prevention and Control” in Hubei Prepared by: Prof. Qin Qin, Sociology Department of Wuhan University of Technology As COVID-19 hit Hubei, the CPC Central Committee decisively started the “extraordinary mode” of the Spring Festival, turning the traditional holiday into a critical window period…
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Nanjing University launched International Renowned Universities Public Courses Prepared by: Prof. Peng Huamin, Prof. Xiao Ping, Dr. Li Chunkai MSW Education Center & Department of Social Work and Social Policy, Nanjing University, China Responding to the call of the National Steering Committee for Master’s Degree…
Interdisciplinary Remote Networking: Social Work Involvement in the COVID-19 Outbreak Aid in China Prepared by Zhihong Yu, Qiqi Chen, Guanghuai Zheng, Yuhong Zhu[1], The COVID-19 pandemic, as today’s catastrophic threat to humanity, has sparked outbreak around the world. We`ve seen community spread quickly in areas outside China, and the figures of infection…
How we hold emotional connection during a time of social distance online in Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice with Groups Prepared by: Dr. Heidi Heft LaPorte, Associate Professor, Barry University School of Social Work In our sudden shift from face to face to an online course, Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice with…
Sharing from a social worker from New Zealand during COVID-19 Prepared by: Mr. Luis Arevalo My name is Luis Arevalo, I work for an NGO in the South Island of New Zealand in the North Canterbury region, it’s predominantly rural and my clients are predominantly the elderly which, as we all know,…