Course Timetabling Problem during COVID-19: An Optimal Model Based on the Comparative Advantage of Online/Offline Education
15 Pages Posted: 7 Sep 2021
Date Written: May 26, 2021
Abstract
COVID-19 has profoundly changed the way that we study and work. For students, especially primary and middle school students, online education has become a solution to learning problems. However, online and offline education have their own characteristics and different learning efficiencies in different disciplines, which in turn will bring different learning effects. Therefore, based on the learning styles and types of knowledge, we establish an optimization model by weighing the comparative advantages of online and offline learning, so as to make the best learning effect for students. Then, a course timetabling algorithm proposed verifies its feasibility through examples.
Keywords: online/offline education, comparative advantage, course timetabling problem, COVID-19
JEL Classification: I20, I21, I23, I28
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