COVID-19 and E-Learning: the Challenges of Students in Tertiary Institutions

By E. Aboagye, Joseph Anthony Yawson, K. Appiah. Social Education Research, 2020

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Problems associated with the transition from conventional learning (face to face) to online learning (e-learning) in the educational system are well documented. The present study explores the challenges students in tertiary institutions have reported facing in online learning in the era of coronavirus pandemic. Using a sample (n = 141), an initial principal component factor analysis was conducted to group the constructs. Eight groups that emerged were social issues, lecturer issues, accessibility issues, learner motivation, academic issues, generic issues, learner intentions, and demographics. Cronbach’s alpha was used to determine the reliability of the scales resulting in the deletion of learner motivation. Comparing the means of the factors revealed that the most important challenge for students to study online was accessibility issues. This was followed by social issues, lecturer issues, academic issues, and generic issues. The mean for the individual items in learners’ intention to study online showed that students were not ready to study online. A Multiple Regression Analysis was further conducted to determine which factors pose the most important challenges to the student’s decision to study online. Social issues and lecturer issues were significant. In the final model, only lecturer issues were significant. A blended approach-where conventional teaching is combined with online teaching should have ushered the learners to complete online learning.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education

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Difficulties in Remote Learning: Voices of Philippine University Students in the Wake of COVID-19 Crisis (2020, background): “The poor network is commonly a major problem for developing countries with telecommunication systems and ICT, not being properly developed (Aboagye et al., 2020).”
The COVID-19 pandemic and E-learning: challenges and opportunities from the perspective of students and instructors (2021, background): “A study that aims to examine student challenges about how to deal with e-learning in the outbreak of COVID-19 and to examine whether students are prepared to study online or not is presented in (Aboagye et al. 2020).”
Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education during the Coronavirus Pandemic: Students’ Perspective (2020, background): “Furthermore, our research shows that universities were not ready to implement exclusively online teaching and learning, and this finding is consistent with the results of other studies [61], while other studies found that poor interaction with teachers was one of the main issues stated by students [”