Emergency Remote Teaching amid COVID-19: The Turning Point

Abstract

The Philippines is now the leading country in the Asean region with the highest confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of April 14, 2020. It has always surmounted numerous curriculum experiments in the previous years but will continue to do so in the coming years as the COVID-19 pandemic is making massive hits to the education sector. This pandemic has brought a challenging and distinctive situation in its educational system since this developing country has never transitioned to distance education prior to the crisis. This article examines the current state of how the country is facing the challenge in the educational system and provides a glimpse of reflection of the simple application of an emergency remote teaching in an unstructured manner of lesson delivery due to an unprecedented emergency.