{"id":2196,"date":"2023-07-20T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T16:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icertpublication.com\/?page_id=2196"},"modified":"2023-11-10T16:02:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:02:30","slug":"virtual-classroom-management-during-covid-19-in-nigeria-insights-from-tpack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/icert.org.in\/index.php\/edu-mania\/edumania-vol-1issue-2\/virtual-classroom-management-during-covid-19-in-nigeria-insights-from-tpack\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Classroom Management during COVID-19 in Nigeria: Insights  from TPACK"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2196\" class=\"elementor elementor-2196\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b2c7f5f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b2c7f5f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3b52495\" data-id=\"3b52495\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d2ca47 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1d2ca47\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Virtual Classroom Management during COVID-19 in Nigeria: Insights \nfrom TPACK <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fe807f8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fe807f8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Falore, Oladunni Julianah<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;\">1<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Oredein, Afolakemi Olasumbo<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;\">2<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;\">1&amp;2<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Arts &amp; Education Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6853b12 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6853b12\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Abstract<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32b8ad5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"32b8ad5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This study explores virtual classroom management in the context of Nigeria, a developing country that faces challenges in adopting technology for teaching and learning activities. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these challenges, causing a breakdown in physical teaching and learning activities. To address this, the study employs constructivism theory to examine virtual classroom management and strategies for effective implementation. The study uses a qualitative approach to review the concept of virtual classroom and virtual classroom management in Nigeria, strategies to manage the virtual classroom as well as the merits and demerits of virtual classroom learning. The findings highlight the challenges of virtual teaching and learning activities and suggest solutions such as in-service training, workshops, and seminars on digital leadership training for school leaders, teachers, and students. Additionally, parents are encouraged to support their children&#8217;s learning by making their smartphones available and monitoring usage, while the government is advised to allocate more funds towards improving digital technology in secondary schools. Overall, the study underscores the importance of constructivism theory in guiding effective virtual classroom management in Nigeria.<\/span><\/p><p><b>Keywords:<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virtual classroom, Virtual Classroom-management, Covid-19<\/span><\/i> <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-54d6978 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"54d6978\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-52731c4\" data-id=\"52731c4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-edb7cc9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"edb7cc9\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4b0491b\" data-id=\"4b0491b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f17da1c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f17da1c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About Authors\n<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fe852ee elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fe852ee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Falore, Julianah, Oladunni, is currently a doctoral student of Educational Management at the Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria. She is an astute researcher and who has extensive administrative experience spanning over 3 decades and recently retired as a Deputy Director from the Federal Ministry of Education, Nigeria.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her zeal and passion for knowledge made her bagged Master\u2019s degree in Educational Management from the University of lbadan as well as a bachelor\u2019s degree in History and Education from the University of Port- Harcourt. Her efforts to contribute to knowledge made her to keep on researching and publishing her findings in reputable seasoned articles in learned journals, attending conferences on diverse topics in the area of Educational Management, shaping perspectives and establishing contacts with other researchers and specialists across borders. Visit her on<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/009%20-0008-1356-2914\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">orcid.org\/009 -0008-1356-2914<\/span><\/a><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor AfolakemiOlasumboOredein is a Professor in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Education, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria, and is currently the Provost of Postgraduate College. Her area of specialization is Educational Management (Leadership) and Statistics. She is a chartered member of the Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (IPMN), International Council for Education Research and Training (ICERT), and Kappa Delta Pi (KDP Nigeria Chapter). Also, she is a member of the following organisations; Higher Education in &amp; Policy Network (HERPNET), Global Education Network (GEN), World Education Research Association (WERA), Nigerian Association of Educational and Planning and Administration (NAEAP), mention a few. Prof. Oredein is the Editor-in-Chief of some journals like; African Higher Education Review (AHER)\u00a0 an online International Journal, and the Journal of Capital Development in Behavioural Sciences (JOCADEBS). She has published widely, attended, and presented papers at local and international academic conferences. She presented her Inaugural Lecture on Good Leadership for National Development: The Inevitable Fraternal Twins and Irresistible Skills as Matters Arising\u2019 September 2016<\/span><b>. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is from Ogun State, Nigeria; married to Rev\u2019dOpeOluwaOredein and blessed with children. Visit her on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scholar.google.com\/citations?\/user=wv9VSUsAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.scholar.google.com\/citations?\/user=wv9VSUsAAAAJ&amp;hl=en<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reserachgate.net\/profile\/Afolakemi_Oredein\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/reserachgate.net\/profile\/Afolakemi_Oredein<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/afolakemi-oredein-ba7451a8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/afolakemi-oredein-ba7451a8<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2051-4730\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2051-4730<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><br \/><br \/><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7852658 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7852658\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">References<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b5f548 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4b5f548\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amie-Organ. 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