Education Quarterly Reviews
ISSN 2621-5799
Published: 21 June 2021
Emergency Remote Teaching during COVID-19: A Comparison of Student Perceptions
Kevin Fuchs
Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
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10.31014/aior.1993.04.02.303
Pages: 593-599
Keywords: Emergency Remote Teaching, Higher Education, Virtual Classroom, ERT, Thailand, Sweden
Abstract
The pandemic has shaken up the higher education landscape around the world, with responses from institutions falling into three categories: retaining in-class teaching with social distancing, adopting hybrid models (blended learning, limiting the number of students on campus), or transitioning to fully online teaching. However, there is a significant difference between emergency remote teaching and a genuine shift to online/hybrid learning, with the key distinguishing term being “emergency.” In response to the global pandemic, the higher education community is now working on the continuous development of action plans in a quest to identify means to manage the crisis more efficiently. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the perceived performance of ERT from the perspective of undergraduate students. For that purpose, samples (n=332) were taken in two different geographical settings, i.e., Thailand and Sweden. Moreover, it is the objective to compare both samples and identify similarities and inadequacies which help stakeholders to manage ERT more efficiently in the future.
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