An assessment on high education institutions readiness on curriculum reform during covid_19 pandemic

Blended mastering has been proposed as one solution that can decorate scholar mastering and engagement, enhance get right of entry to and flexibility, and tackle organizational and institutional imperatives in higher education. Therefore this study aimed at assessing the high education institutions readiness on their curriculum transformation during covid-19 pandemic. The study employed qualitative method approach where a case study design was used. Furthermore, the study involved 45 participants from five faculties at international university of management using focus group discussion as a method to collect data who were chosen using purposive sampling. The data obtained were analysed using content thematic approach. The major findings of this study are; the educators have pragmatic approaches they have employed for their teaching and learning, namely synchronous teaching and learning and then asynchronous learning and using the new online approaches lead to boredom, sense of isolation, lack of time to follow the different subjects, and lack of self-organizing capabilities among students. in addition the results showed that those involved must improve their understanding and readiness for this new teaching and learning process. The study established that in order to fully integrate online learning and teaching methodologies in higher education institutions, educators and students must both be fully committed. This requires more skills and training for both educators and students to be able to fully migrate to a new mode of teaching and learning. This can be achieved by employing an open on-line guides to build moocs (massive open on-line courses), the requirements are higher than open on-line courses. And an exact path resource requires robust financial and technical support within the institutions of high learning. Hence the study concluded that these challenges can still be addressed as there are already some educators who have known how to use online teaching and learning approaches and only require financial and resources support.