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Philosophical reflections about the virtual world
Changes in the operating ambience is normally welcome. But the change world is facing is accompanied by an unacceptable reason called Covid virus spread. However, educational institutions, while observing the norms imposed by various administrations, have managed to do an excellent job of ‘teaching’...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7684153/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40012-020-00319-y |
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author | Swaminathan, S Balaji, S Sriram, G Venkatramanan, K |
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description | Changes in the operating ambience is normally welcome. But the change world is facing is accompanied by an unacceptable reason called Covid virus spread. However, educational institutions, while observing the norms imposed by various administrations, have managed to do an excellent job of ‘teaching’ against the odds. Moreover, everyone was caught by surprise. Overnight the world changed. We decided to understand the reactions from our faculty to the challenge arising out of Covid, and also use of terminologies such as online, virtual, reality, perception, understanding, and so on. The result is this paper, which is a collection of ‘reactions’. |
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spelling | pubmed-76841532020-11-24 Philosophical reflections about the virtual world Swaminathan, S Balaji, S Sriram, G Venkatramanan, K CSIT Brief Report Changes in the operating ambience is normally welcome. But the change world is facing is accompanied by an unacceptable reason called Covid virus spread. However, educational institutions, while observing the norms imposed by various administrations, have managed to do an excellent job of ‘teaching’ against the odds. Moreover, everyone was caught by surprise. Overnight the world changed. We decided to understand the reactions from our faculty to the challenge arising out of Covid, and also use of terminologies such as online, virtual, reality, perception, understanding, and so on. The result is this paper, which is a collection of ‘reactions’. Springer India 2020-11-24 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7684153/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40012-020-00319-y Text en © CSI Publications 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Swaminathan, S Balaji, S Sriram, G Venkatramanan, K Philosophical reflections about the virtual world |
title | Philosophical reflections about the virtual world |
title_full | Philosophical reflections about the virtual world |
title_fullStr | Philosophical reflections about the virtual world |
title_full_unstemmed | Philosophical reflections about the virtual world |
title_short | Philosophical reflections about the virtual world |
title_sort | philosophical reflections about the virtual world |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7684153/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40012-020-00319-y |
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