EFFECTS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON UNIVERSITY PEDAGOGY: STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES AND CONSIDERATIONS
By Katerina Kedraka, Christos Kaltsidis. European Journal of Education Studies, 2020
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Due to the coronavirus crisis, universities worldwide have faced sudden pressure to change from face-to-face delivery of courses to digitally enhanced teaching for distance learning. We present a small case study of 75 students from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics of the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece on their experiences of the transition from face-to-face to distance learning during this crisis. We used a questionnaire with closed-ended and open-ended questions to record the students’ “fresh” experience of their new educational reality. Students consider distance learning to be interesting, modern, adequate, and convenient, but not able to replace their experience of social interaction with fellow students and teachers. They continue to express worries about lessons, examinations, and laboratory work, which may be due to the specific and high demands of the biosciences. This crisis is an opportunity for universities to improve the use of digital tools for an enhanced learning and teaching experience. This should be supported by investment in digital infrastructure for improving distance learning in higher education. Article visualizations:
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Information Systems
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- The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Tertiary Education in Bangladesh: Students’ Perspectives (2020, result): “All these issues associated with online education were also analogous to many pieces of literature (Adnan & Anwar, 2020; Arnhold et al., 2020; Kedraka & Kaltsidis, 2020; Mahdy, 2020).”
- Adaptation and Perception of Online Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic by Albanian University Students (2021, background): “Albanian and other countries’ students prefer the learning process to be continued in class and according to them online learning cannot replace the classroom (Abbasi et al., 2020; Kedraka & Kaltsidis, 2020).”