Distance Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic in UAE Public Schools: Student Satisfaction, Attitudes and Challenges

Autor/in	Bawa'aneh, Muhammad S.
Titel	Distance Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic in UAE Public Schools: Student Satisfaction, Attitudes and Challenges
Quelle	In: Contemporary Educational Technology, 13 (2021) 3, S.304 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bawa'aneh, Muhammad S.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1309-517X
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; Distance Education; School Closing; Electronic Learning; Virtual Classrooms; Student Satisfaction; High School Students; Adolescents; Barriers; Affordances; Internet; Gender Differences; Place of Residence; Public Schools; Foreign Countries; United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Geschlechterkonflikt; Wohnort; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Ausland
Abstract	In the current circumstances, the second wave of COVID-19 Pandemic is spreading and we seem to have to live longer with most of the urgent measures taken in early 2020 to fight the spread out of the pandemic; of which is school closure. The present study aims at investigating students' satisfaction, attitudes and challenges in UAE public schools during the distance learning time of the third trimester of the academic year 2019-2020. The study also aims to measure differences of satisfaction level, attitudes, and challenges across gender and geographic places of residence within the UAE. Data collection started eight weeks after the commencement of the distance learning process and continued for two weeks. The first eight weeks that preceded data collection witnessed a continuous update of the, previously rich and well established, educational plans in line with continuous development plan for students and instructors that included intensive training for students and instructors on the use of up-to-date educational technologies. That has reflected on the results of the study, where the student satisfaction level, attitudes and challenges were found to lie within the "strong" category indicating high satisfaction level, positive attitude, and minimum faced challenges, with statistically significant differences in the mean across gender and residency for some cases. Such positive result is directly related to the fact that students of the UAE public schools were partially exposed to electronic learning even before the pandemic, the tremendous efforts of the ministry of education to guarantee smooth transfer to full distance learning after the outbreak of the pandemic, and the well established infrastructure of the country. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Contemporary Educational Technology. Faculty of Communication Sciences, Anadolu University, Yunus Emre Campus, Eskisehir 26470, Turkey. e-mail: editor@cedtech.net; Web site: http://www.cedtech.net
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01