An Exploration of Children’s Online Learning and Interactive Play During the COVID-19 Pandemic

An Exploration of Children’s Online Learning and Interactive Play During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Children’s online learning and cooperative play have both served as major factors in their own healthy psychological, emotional, social and cognitive development during the COVID-19 pandemic. The closures of schools, institutions and other learning spaces due to the pandemic impacted more than 94% of the world’s student population (Pokhrel & Chhetri, 2021). A wide-range of traditional educational practices were disturbed due to social distancing and restrictive movement policies (Pokhrel & Chhetri, 2021). As a result, online learning widely replaced traditional face-to-face learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to maintain young children’s learning and play (Dong et al., 2020).

Mason, Tara

Rider University

DiYanni, Cara

Baccalaureate Honors Program

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