TY - JOUR ID - TI - The Impact of Social Distancing on Teaching in Iraq AU - Alaa Mohammed Shaheed PY - 2021 VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - 2 EP - 7 JO - Journal of Oral and Dental Research مجلة طب الفم والاسنان SN - 23106417 AB - Background in eastern countries as in Iraq sociality is an important subject in all life experiences, teaching is one of these experiences. The teaching in governmental and non-governmental institutions is shifted from face-to-face (traditional) teaching into electronic one because of the covid-19 pandemic and the social distancing proposed by the world health organization (WHO). Objectives This study aims to address how electronic learning affects the social relationship between teachers and students.Materials and Methods Forty teachers from different colleges at Al-Bayan Universitywere enrolled in this study whose students in virtual classes had not been their same students in ordinary previous classes. They were asked to give a percentage of the students who are recognizable to the teacher by both name and face regarding virtual or electronic classes compared with the percentage in previous ordinary classes, this criterion has been taken as one indicator for social contact between students and teachers.Results for ordinary classes, the mean percentage was 79.95; while for electronic classes the mean percentage was 24.63. The difference was statistically significant.Conclusion electronic learning has an impact on the social relationship between students and teachers as most teachers have difficulty in recognizing their students by faces with the names.

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