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  1. Students' experience of online learning during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A

    Online learning is currently adopted by educational institutions worldwide to provide students with ongoing education during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Even though online learning research has been advancing in uncovering student experiences in various settings (i.e., tertiary, adult, and professional education), very little progress has been ...

  2. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on online learning in higher education

    The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted higher education by forcing the transition to online learning, which became a mandatory teaching process during the lockdowns. Although the epidemiological situation has gradually improved since then, online learning is becoming ever more popular as it provides new learning opportunities. Therefore, the paper aims to present recent ...

  3. The Effect of COVID-19 on Education

    The transition to an online education during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may bring about adverse educational changes and adverse health consequences for children and young adult learners in grade school, middle school, high school, college, and professional schools. The effects may differ by age, maturity, and socioeconomic ...

  4. COVID-19's impacts on the scope, effectiveness, and ...

    The COVID-19 outbreak brought online learning to the forefront of education. Scholars have conducted many studies on online learning during the pandemic, but only a few have performed quantitative comparative analyses of students' online learning behavior before and after the outbreak. We collected review data from China's massive open online course platform called icourse.163 and ...

  5. Online education in the post-COVID era

    The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world to engage in the ubiquitous use of virtual learning. And while online and distance learning has been used before to maintain continuity in education ...

  6. Frontiers

    BackgroundThe effectiveness of online learning in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic period is a debated topic but a systematic review on this topic is absent.MethodsThe present study implemented a systematic review of 25 selected articles to comprehensively evaluate online learning effectiveness during the pandemic period and identify factors that influence such effectiveness ...

  7. Why lockdown and distance learning during the COVID-19 ...

    The COVID-19 pandemic led to school closures and distance learning that are likely to exacerbate social class academic disparities. This Review presents an agenda for future research and outlines ...

  8. Distance learning in higher education during COVID-19: The role of

    Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, higher educational institutions worldwide switched to emergency distance learning in early 2020. The less structured environment of distance learning forced students to regulate their learning and motivation more independently. According to self-determination theory (SDT), satisfaction of the three basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence and social ...

  9. The impact of the first wave of COVID-19 on students ...

    Taking a difference-in-differences approach, they found that receiving online education during the COVID-19 lockdown improved students' academic results by 0.22 of a standard deviation (Yu et al ...

  10. Distance Learning in Higher Education During Covid-19

    COVID-19's pandemic has hastened the expansion of online learning across all levels of education. Countries have pushed to expand their use of distant education and make it mandatory in view of the danger of being unable to resume face-to-face education. The most frequently reported disadvantages are technological challenges and the resulting inability to open the system. Prior to the ...

  11. Online and face‐to‐face learning: Evidence from students' performance

    1.1. Related literature. Online learning is a form of distance education which mainly involves internet‐based education where courses are offered synchronously (i.e. live sessions online) and/or asynchronously (i.e. students access course materials online in their own time, which is associated with the more traditional distance education).

  12. The COVID-19 pandemic and E-learning: challenges and opportunities from

    The spread of COVID-19 poses a threat to humanity, as this pandemic has forced many global activities to close, including educational activities. To reduce the spread of the virus, education institutions have been forced to switch to e-learning using available educational platforms, despite the challenges facing this sudden transformation.

  13. Online education and its effect on teachers during COVID-19—A case

    Background COVID pandemic resulted in an initially temporary and then long term closure of educational institutions, creating a need for adapting to online and remote learning. The transition to online education platforms presented unprecedented challenges for the teachers. The aim of this research was to investigate the effects of the transition to online education on teachers' wellbeing in ...

  14. The Challenges of Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An

    This paper aims to analyze student essays in the form of perspectives or responses about the challenges of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic by collecting fifteen students as samples in the Fundamentals of Education I course. COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way of learning in higher education. Teaching, and learning activities that are usually carried out with face-to-face ...

  15. Impact of COVID-19 on Education: Virtual Class Experience

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, schools and colleges across the world shut down and education was transitioned from an in-person medium to an online medium. This transition was not planned, and the implementation was not perfect. This paper looks at data collected from students in India in July 2020, in the middle of the pandemic. The survey respondents included elementary school, middle school ...

  16. Online Teaching and Learning

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, the harshness of home confinement was alleviated by transferring a range of activities online, including education. This paper investigates how teachers and students perceived themselves within this online learning environment, their interactions, self-efficacy and satisfaction.

  17. Academic and emotional effects of online learning during the COVID-19

    Introduction. The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an unprecedented challenge in education, leading to the suspension of face-to-face teaching (UNESCO, 2020).This change has been particularly challenging in university undergraduate engineering degrees since much of the learning process is based on practical applications, laboratory classes, and direct contact with teachers and other students.

  18. Schooling and Covid-19: lessons from recent research on EdTech

    The wide-scale global movement of school education to remote instruction due to Covid-19 is unprecedented. The use of educational technology (EdTech) offers an alternative to in-person learning ...

  19. The rise of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

    The COVID-19 has resulted in schools shut all across the world. Globally, over 1.2 billion children are out of the classroom. As a result, education has changed dramatically, with the distinctive rise of e-learning, whereby teaching is undertaken remotely and on digital platforms. Research suggests that online learning has been shown to ...

  20. Engagement in Online Learning: Student Attitudes and Behavior During

    The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in nearly all universities switching courses to online formats. We surveyed the online learning experience of undergraduate students (n = 187) at a large, public research institution in course structure, interpersonal interaction, and academic resources. Data was also collected from course evaluations. Students reported decreases in live lecture engagement and ...

  21. Digital inequality in education: Features of manifestation ...

    The article is devoted to the analysis of the features of the manifestation of digital inequality in education during COVID-19 pandemic. It analyzes the definitions, levels and criteria for assessing the digital divide. We consider current examples of digital divide in education at the following levels: divide in access to information technology (IT), divide in the degree of IT possession ...

  22. PDF The Impact of Covid-19 on Student Experiences and Expectations ...

    of COVID-19 can explain 40% of the delayed graduation gap (as well as a substantial part of the gap for other outcomes) between lower- and higher-income students. To our knowledge, this is the rst paper to shed light on the e ects of COVID-19 on college students' experiences. The treatment e ects that we nd are large in economic terms.

  23. The sudden transition to online learning: Teachers' experiences of

    Introduction The sudden transition from face-to-face teaching to virtual remote education and the need to implement it during COVID-19 initially posed specific challenges to educational institutions. Identifying and understanding teachers' experiences pave the way for discovering and meeting educational needs. This study explored faculty members' teaching experiences during the COVID-19 ...

  24. Examination of Variables Affecting the Perceptions of Academic

    Covid-19 has caused serious consequences in all areas of social life, including education. Today, online teaching environments have become such an inevitable part of education systems during the normalization process that even when the pandemic is over, it has been decided that a certain proportion of the courses will be conducted online in universities. For this reason, determining student ...

  25. Students' preferences for teaching and exam delivery modes in

    There is a literature gap in students' preferences for online, on-campus, or a combination of both exam modes offered in accounting education post-COVID-19 experience, which this current paper attempts to fill. The current research contributes further by exploring students' traits and their preferences for exam sitting modes.

  26. Accounting students' performance in proctored online exams: early

    ABSTRACT. Given the debate in tertiary institutions on the use of technology for assessments due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we compare the performance of accounting students in proctored paper-based and online exams.

  27. The Impact of COVID-19 on Education: A Meta-Narrative Review

    The descriptive and content analysis yielded two major strands of studies: (1) online education and (2) COVID-19 and education, business, economics, and management. The online education strand focused on the issue of technological anxiety caused by online classes, the feeling of belonging to an academic community, and feedback.

  28. Expectations and Experiences With Online Education During the COVID-19

    Another research concludes that online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic was only possible when online learning had a robust digital infrastructure and a learning system designed for that purpose; otherwise, it was an attempt to replicate face-to-face teaching in the virtual environment (Abdulrahim and Mabrouk, 2020).

  29. Resilience and psychological factors among dentistry students who

    This research evaluated whether the relationships between factors of resilience, self-esteem, depression, and anxiety in dental students with changes in teaching and learning methods. We also studied the psychological impact of face-to-face lectures during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-sectional descriptive study used Google Forms to collect data with the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE ...

  30. An observational study of engineering online education during the COVID

    The COVID-19 pandemic compelled the global and abrupt conversion of conventional face-to-face instruction to the online format in many educational institutions. Urgent and careful planning is needed to mitigate negative effects of pandemic on engineering education that has been traditionally content-centered, hands-on and design-oriented. To enhance engineering online education during the ...