This multidisciplinary volume includes an international roster of contributors who explore how mass hysteria has emerged among people across the globe as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The contributors provide international perspectives on the effects of this “corohysteria” in areas such as education, healthcare, religion, psychology, mathematics, economics, media, racism, politics, etc. They argue the hysteria, angst, fear, unrest, and difficulties associated with the pandemic ar...

In a world where online education is too often reduced to transactional and very philosophical, one-size-fits-all instruction, this book boldly redefines open-distance digital learning (ODeL) as a space for radical transformation. Bridging critical pedagogy, care ethics, and social justice, it challenges the status quo by centering student agency, dialogue, and co-creation in virtual classrooms. Grounded in real experiences from developing universities, this work exposes the limitations of...