TY - JOUR
T1 - When Distance Becomes Closeness
T2 - Distance Learning as a Meaningful Learning Opportunity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
AU - Lidor, Noami Hadas
AU - Baloush-Kleinman, Vered
AU - Mazor, Yael
AU - Oren, Orly
AU - Dudai, Ronit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2024/1
Y1 - 2024/1
N2 - The National School for Mental Health Rehabilitation, Integration, and Recovery in Israel developed responses to academic, pedagogical, and emotional needs that arose during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite reduced activity during the outbreak, the school continued all regular courses remotely and created new online workshops. In this article, we review the school’s adjustment from being change agents on the frontal level to change agents on the virtual level, through descriptive and qualitative findings. We use the learning from success approach to examine development and implementation processes. The large number of participants who suddenly had access to distance learning and their highly positive responses indicated the creation of opportunities alongside the challenges we faced. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first description and analysis of the challenges, opportunities, and outcomes of a recovery-oriented online academic facility during a pandemic.
AB - The National School for Mental Health Rehabilitation, Integration, and Recovery in Israel developed responses to academic, pedagogical, and emotional needs that arose during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite reduced activity during the outbreak, the school continued all regular courses remotely and created new online workshops. In this article, we review the school’s adjustment from being change agents on the frontal level to change agents on the virtual level, through descriptive and qualitative findings. We use the learning from success approach to examine development and implementation processes. The large number of participants who suddenly had access to distance learning and their highly positive responses indicated the creation of opportunities alongside the challenges we faced. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first description and analysis of the challenges, opportunities, and outcomes of a recovery-oriented online academic facility during a pandemic.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Community participation and social inclusion in crisis
KW - Distance learning in crisis
KW - Learning from success
KW - Mental health training
KW - The National School for Mental Health Rehabilitation, Integration, and Recovery
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139061243&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10597-022-01029-2
DO - 10.1007/s10597-022-01029-2
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C2 - 36173515
AN - SCOPUS:85139061243
SN - 0010-3853
VL - 60
SP - 14
EP - 26
JO - Community Mental Health Journal
JF - Community Mental Health Journal
IS - 1
ER -
