Teaching and Learning in Survival Mode: Students and Faculty Perceptions of Distance Education during the COVID-19 Lockdown

Sustainability

Maram Meccawy¹  Aisha Alsobhi¹  Zilal Meccawy² 

[1] Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computing & Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia;English Language Institute, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia;

关键词: COVID-19;    distance learning;    higher education (HE);    e-Learning;    student and faculty satisfaction;    Saudi Arabia;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su13148053

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

(1) This study demonstrates how a Saudi university has responded to the COVID-19 lockdown in order to examine the success factors and highlight any challenges. The main purpose was to determine the perceptions of students and faculty towards emergency online distance learning from a teaching and learning perspective; (2) A cross-faculty study was conducted: two different self-administered questionnaires were developed for students and faculty, respectively. In addition, data was collected from official reports; (3) The results show that students had a more positive perception of e-Learning despite the difficulties that they may have faced, while faculty results leaned slightly towards a negative perception. However, there was not a definite positive or negative perception, depending on the aspect of teaching that was being evaluated. The study also indicated that faculty and students’ gender had no significant effect on their perceptions. Overall results showed that the university performed well in accordance with three of the five pillars of online learning quality framework in terms of student satisfaction, access and scalability. On the other, improvements are needed to achieve better results for faculty satisfaction and learning effectiveness; (4) The findings present a number of suggestions for increasing satisfaction to improve the online learning experience post COVID-19.

【 授权许可】

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