Higher Education in the Age of COVID-19: The New Normal

Abstract

The current disastrous impact on the society due to dangerous COVID-19 outbreak, everyone is
preparing for the post COVID-19 world and also for future pandemics. Academicians are trying to
adopt available alternative ways for the future of education delivery in the post COVID-19 and the
concept of new ‘university’ in a new ‘normal’ are coming in picture. Blended learning is becoming
popular rapidly in many countries, in absence of traditional methods. Among all subsystems of
blended learning, the flipped classroom concept is gaining maximum attention. Purpose: With the
development of new teaching–learning system, technological advancement is also required to support
the new methods of teaching. Software development has taken tremendous momentum after the
outbreak of COVID-19. Still, the developments on Integration Level testing and System Level testing
require a considerable attention. In addition, based on some serious limitations observed in
Functional testing as well as in Structural testing methods, software engineers and developers find it
impossible to achieve 100% reliability for any large, complex and intelligent software systems. It is
worthy to mention that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) are going to play
significant role in the delivery of tomorrow’s higher education world.