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Emergency Remote Education and Its Impact on Higher Education: A Temporary or Permanent Shift in Instruction?

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to problems and upheaval throughout the higher-education sector, with university campuses ceasing face-to-face instruction and with assessments shifting to an online model for a few years. As a result, the pandemic prompted educators to teach online, utilizing online lectures, narrated power points, audio snippets, podcasts, instant messaging, and interactive videos, whereas traditional universities had primarily relied on in-person courses. Evaluations, which included assignments and multiple-choice questions, were conducted online, forcing lecturers to reconsider how deliverables were set up to prevent students from having easy access to the answers in a textbook or online. Learning from college students’ experiences throughout this time period will assist higher-education stakeholders (administration, faculty, and students) in adapting future online course delivery selections for higher education. In this study, we investigated the experiences of students learning from a distance, as well as aspects of their learning. We provide recommendations for higher education. The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly resulted in the largest distance-learning experiment in history.

Source: Education Sciences

DOI: 10.3390/educsci12100721

Authors: Cathrine Linnes, Giulio Ronzoni, Jerome Agrusa, Joseph Lema

Institutions: Østfold University of Applied Sciences, University of Florida, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Language: English

Topic: Education during COVID-19 pandemic

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,466