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Record W4412903368 · doi:10.5539/ies.v18n4p92

Shifting Patterns in Educational Philosophy and Policies During and After the Pandemic: How COVID-19 Changed the Game in Education

2025· article· en· W4412903368 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Education Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducational Curriculum and Learning Methods
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakPhilosophy of educationSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)SociologyHigher educationPsychologyPedagogySocial scienceMathematics educationEconomic growthPolitical scienceVirologyEconomicsMedicine

Abstract

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world in numerous ways, but one of the most impactful changes took place in education. The sudden shift from face-to-face learning to e-learning caught many institutions and instructors off guard and unprepared. It required not only adjustments to their educational practices but also to the policies and the educational philosophy employed during the crisis. This paper explores the changes in philosophy and policy that have specifically impacted higher education. The methodology used in this study was a scoping literature review using the Arksey and O’Malley’s scoping review framework. Seventeenth articles were reviewed, and the results demonstrate the pandemic’s dismal impact on students and how educators are making essential shifts in philosophical paradigms to incorporate new policies designed for flexible learning strategies. The results also identified major philosophy shifts toward blended learning models that are flexible, collaborative, and inclusive. Additionally, policy shifts include the need to address digital transformation and educational inequalities, particularly for students in rural and low-income communities. Finally, instructors must also be adequately trained in the most effective technologies and philosophical mindsets that can address the rapid changes unfolding in the post-pandemic world.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.289
Threshold uncertainty score0.597

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.091
GPT teacher head0.477
Teacher spread0.386 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it