IN 2020, students, teachers and families across the globe have to adjust as schools were closed for in-person classes because of the rapid contagion of the coronavirus disease, resulting in such a pandemic the world has never encountered before.

As people were required to social distance and follow stay-at-home orders in their respective communities, work-from-home arrangements and virtual learning set-ups for students were hastily formed and developed. It eventually became the defining characteristic of education during the health crisis.