Abstract of Dr. Wiwat Ruenglertpanyakul
Learning@MWIT: Changed by design, Forced by pandemic
Dr. Wiwat Ruenglertpanyakul*, James Mercer Stevens (* corresponding author)
Mahidol Wittayanusorn School, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Abstract
The COVID-19 virus that has been contracted by upwards of 206 million people and caused over 4.3 million deaths around the world began to spread to the local population in Thailand in March 2020. Since then, major disruptions to public and private life have forced great upheaval in Thai society as the government struggles to contain the outbreak. This is particularly true in the education sector where schools have had to rethink and revamp their entire education system. As one of the first science schools in Thailand, Mahidol Wittayanusorn serves a model for other Thai schools adapting to teaching and learning during the Covid 19 outbreak. In this paper, the effects of the pandemic on Mahidol Wittayanusorn School (MWIT) are discussed, together with how teachers, students and administrators transitioned to hybrid online learning and used the disruption caused by school closures to develop a new system of content delivery. The future direction and implications of this reinvention of our school are discussed in the last part of this paper
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