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On the other hand, the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic could contribute to the advantages associated with DL. This study discusses this from the perspective of institutional innovation, either as a potentially disruptive innovation or potential constructive innovation. The paper also re-imagines the conceptual and ethical considerations and the requirements associated with distance learning. It conceptualises further that ethics are a fundamental part of teaching pedagogy and, more importantly, DL, but the advent of COVID-19 poses further demands for educators and students in maintaining ethical principles. During the Covid-19 pandemic, DL was proposed alongside social distancing (SD) measures and served as a method of engaging students in a learning environment. Although, the physical\u00a0distance\u00a0also poses a difficulty in obtaining students&#8217; levels of understanding in terms of\u00a0course\u00a0content, thus, this study concludes that distance learning uncovers far more problems, such as the level of readiness (of stakeholders; teachers, students, government, and parents) in the process of transitioning to online teaching platforms, educational equity, and a lack of infrastructure or resources to facilitate online teaching as a result of Social Distancing (SD) emanated from the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Rufus O.  Adebayo (Durban University of Technology)<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Kolawole  Abon (Ohio University)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>Distance learning, COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing, educators<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: Addressing Distance Learning During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: Re-Imagining Ethical Issues and Requirements&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[2153,1848,2100,2102,2101],"class_list":["post-5211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ajims","tag-covid-19-pandemic","tag-distance-learning","tag-educators","tag-social-distancing","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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