**3. Study**

The effect of teaching online education on the study skills of postgraduate students was investigated. A sample composed of two groups of students who were enrolled in a Project Management course offered at a business school was considered. This course was randomly assigned as an experimental group (N = 20); while the other was considered as a control group (N = 27). The control group was traditionally taught using a textbook-focused lecture and the LCD screen/projector was used from time to time, quizzes and paper assignments were used frequently. The same content in the textbook was used for the experimental group, but in electronic format using the e-learning platform. Moodle was the LMS used, in the second semester of 2021

### *Emergency Remote Education Amid COVID-19 Pandemic DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.102822*

and was the space used for the delivery of the course requirements. A validated scale consisting of 60 items covering nine dimensions of study skills was administered to the two groups before and after treatment. Statistically, significant differences were found between the groups on the pretest. As a result, multivariate analysis of covariance was used for the post-test data analysis controlling for differences in the pre-test. The differences between the experimental and control groups in their performance on the post-test appeared to be statistically significant on all dimensions. All these differences were in favor of the experimental group.

The study shows that the use of an LMS in instruction seems to be able to improve skills as the experimental group outperformed the control group with statistically significant differences in all dimensions of study skills if we control for the difference in their performance on the pretest from one dimension to another. All these differences were in favor of the experimental group.

It is worth noting that although the experimental group outperformed the control group in all dimensions of study skills, a decline was reflected in their performance with a statistically significant difference in two dimensions, which were—essay writing and effective listening. The decline in essay writing may be due to the nature of the course selected to be taught on Moodle. The Project Management course where less effort is given to report writing and more effort is given to hands-on activities using the software. In terms of the experimental group's decrease in effective listening, it could be explained based on the fact that teaching in an LMS gives little emphasis on listening, which is a crucial factor in the traditional lecture method. Therefore, it is logical to obtain such a result.

The study showed that the LMS was influential in improving most of the dimensions (6 out of 9) of study skills, the overall improvement of the experimental group was not statistically significant. The implication of this finding is that researchers should always verify the effect of any new instructional method on the subfactors and dimensions of the target variable or aspect. The overall effect could be masked by one dimension over the others.

Finally, although the results of this study support the use of an LMS in graduatelevel instruction, more research is needed in several courses before a conservative generalization can be made.

## **4. Recommendations**

Thus, it becomes crucial to generate a community residence, this is the "capacity of the social system to respond to the adversities that are affecting the community at the same time and in a similar way, while the resources that already exist are developed and strengthened, to reorganize" [9]. It is worth noting that this concept is not only aimed at an individual, but also at a community facing social adversity. As the Government of Mexico explains, it is possible to reach a state of community resilience. This community resilience can be built on a day-to-day basis when we engage to improve. We can overcome the negative feelings that this contingency has brought with it through a series of compensation mechanisms, such as the following:

