An Exploration of Issues and Challenges Faced by Students in Distance Learning Environment

Niwaz, Asaf; Ahmed, Qazi Waqas; Kamran, Sohail

doi:10.31703/gssr.2019(iv-iv).11

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“…j ON THE HORIZON j Niwaz et al (2019) examined many of the challenges faced by Pakistani higher education students that can hamper success with distance education. In the section, he labeled "personal circumstances" family and work obligations along with improper time management, were the significant factors that inhibited successful outcomes.…”

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Evaluation of students’ attitude toward distance learning during the pandemic (Covid-19): a case study of ELTE university

Ismaili

2021

OTH

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Purpose Covid-19 has prompted higher institutions around the globe to relocate traditional classes to online classes. Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) was no exception. It had already drawn up limited strategies regarding distance education, but those Web-based platforms were provided only to students with special needs. Due to the pandemic, all ELTE students were compelled to use online platforms that the university provided, such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom, to resume their studies. This study aims to evaluate the initial experience of students in using these new platforms. It also explores the effects distance learning has on students’ satisfaction and attitudes toward their education. Design/methodology/approach By using a quantitative approach, students’ attitudes toward e-learning and their access to tech-platforms, use of those platforms and satisfaction with online courses are processed and analyzed via a statistical package for the social sciences. Findings The results of this study show that distance learning is still in the development stage, and although traditional classrooms appeared to be indispensable, the positive attitudes and willingness of the majority of students to engage in distance learning classes in the post-COVID19 pandemic indicate that there is an immense potential future for e-learning platforms in higher education institutions. Originality/value The distance learning approach has been the only way for institutions worldwide to resume studies during the pandemic of Covid-19. Students faced mixed feelings of perplexity, loneliness, uncertainty over what is going to happen with classes, exams, graduation and other significant activities impacting their study path; irrespective of their daily struggles with the hard accessibility to means of e-learning and personal potential health problems. This evaluation is considered as a roadmap for institutions to follow-up and to improve the organizational and educational shortcomings they met.

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Evaluation of students’ attitude toward distance learning during the pandemic (Covid-19): a case study of ELTE university

Ismaili

2021

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“…The mandate of sandwich education is to meet the educational needs of those who missed the chance of regular education opportunities for any reason or those who are unable to continue their education through a traditional system of education (UNESCO, 2005). Sandwich education gained acceptance in communities on the basis of its reach, productivity, and acceptance; and it is generally acceptability as an alternative to the conventional education system (Niwaz, Waqas, & Kamran, (2019). UNESCO ( 2004) declared sandwich learning as a global strategy to provide universal access to education.…”

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Taking a Retrospect Look at our Sandwich Education: Quality or Quantity?

Ampomah

Ampofo

Manu

2020

ANUJAT

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The current study investigated the outlook of sandwich programmes from the lenses of students, based on the acceptability of the programme, quality of the teaching and learning process as well as the challenges sandwich students face. With a survey research design, 250 sandwich students answered questions on the three constructs. At the end of the study, the researchers found evidence that there were no significant differences in the acceptability of sandwich programme, quality of sandwich programmes, challenges of sandwich students, based on gender as well as age. Males and females as well as older and younger students provided similar responses. Secondly, there was a significant difference in the three constructs, based on programme of study. Students offering different programmes provided different information. Thirdly, out of the three constructs, the challenges that sandwich students face had a significant difference in terms of their employment status. Students who were employed and those who were not employed gave different responses. Fourthly, there was a strong positive correlation among the three constructs. Finally, age, quality of sandwich programmes, and challenges of sandwich student’s constructs were good predictors of the acceptability of the sandwich programmes. The researchers recommend that there should be a close look at the age of students, the quality of teaching and learning process, and the challenges of sandwich students in order to determine the sustenance of sandwich programmes. Keywords: Acceptability of Sandwich Programme, Quality of Sandwich Programmes, Challenges of Sandwich Students, Sandwich Students, Distance Education.

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“…The transition to distance learning also revealed discrepancies in parents' ability to help students (GEM Report, 2020). Some researchers claimed that the significant role assumed by teachers teaching via distance learning was to help their students develop learning skills and strictly maintain contact with the students (Niwaz et al, 2019).…”

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The COVID-19 Period: A Crisis for on-Site Learning or an Opportunity for Optimal Distance Learning? Examination of Student Attitudes

Ben-Amram¹,

Davidovitch²

2021

JEL

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This study, which explores student attitudes to online learning, is based on a psychoanalytic theory (Existence-relatedness-growth, ERG) on relatedness and growth, developed by American psychologist Clayton Alderfer. The purpose of the study was to examine whether online learning is merely a short-term temporary solution necessitated by the COVID-19 crisis, or will it enable a transformation of teaching and learning patterns in educational systems in the post-COVID era? What is students’ personal preference regarding online learning after having inadvertently experienced it? What dimension of online teaching was meaningful for them: social presence, instructional-cognitive presence, emotional-personal presence? The research population consisted of 306 students, with a mean age of 15.5. Only 85% of the students who participated in the study had technological resources for online learning at home. About 41% of the students preferred lessons that combine online teaching with frontal teaching in the classroom. In addition, the dimensions of online teaching reported by students as meaningful were, in descending order, social presence (M = 3.54), emotional-personal presence (M = 2.96), and instructional-cognitive presence (M = 2.73). The research findings might have an effect on policy makers in education with regard to maintaining an “innovative pedagogy” aimed at shaping students’ image in order to prepare them for the new post-COVID era. In this period of global crisis, online learning afforded students innovative learning, where students enhanced their awareness of the significance of social presence, which was more meaningful than the dimension of instructional-cognitive presence. The significance of interpersonal interaction in teaching and learning received support, more so than ever before.

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An Exploration of Issues and Challenges Faced by Students in Distance Learning Environment

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Evaluation of students’ attitude toward distance learning during the pandemic (Covid-19): a case study of ELTE university

Evaluation of students’ attitude toward distance learning during the pandemic (Covid-19): a case study of ELTE university

Taking a Retrospect Look at our Sandwich Education: Quality or Quantity?

The COVID-19 Period: A Crisis for on-Site Learning or an Opportunity for Optimal Distance Learning? Examination of Student Attitudes

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