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The integration creates an engagement among the learners and results in competitive advantage and satisfaction. As an example, a contemporary topic can be chosen from what is happening and relevant to society. The topic can be then incorporated into the topics of the curriculum and set a framework for the course. The next task would be to ask the learner to customize and transform their learnings and collaborate by building awareness findings, and solutions. The integration phase may require extensive planning in every stage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This study demonstrates how the topics of Covid-19 are integrated throughout a business course \u201cWeb Systems and E-commerce\u201d. The course consists of topics such as understanding the technology, web design, web site analysis, and creating an E-commerce from scratch with web hosting and web concepts including the basics of HTML coding and programming with Javascript and C++. 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