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Online Distance Instruction in Higher Education Through the Lens of Students’ Experience

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Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition (ICL 2022)

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The main objective of the research is to monitor online distance instruction at the higher education level and to discover whether there were any changes in the process within the period of 18-month period, when schools were closed due to the covid-19 pandemic.

The ex-post-facto method was applied in the research. Data were collected by questionnaire. In total, almost 300 (resp. 642) respondents from three institutions participated in the research. Four statements were under focus: (1) Teachers invested much effort in online distance teaching; (2) Students invested much effort in online distance learning; (3) I appreciate online distance instruction; (4) I did not learn much through online distance instruction. Respondents’ dis/agreement with statements was considered on a four-level Likert. A quantitative approach was used to calculate the frequency of occurrence of responses in single statements. We anticipated that there will be both supporters and rejectors of online distance instruction. Particular expectations are reflected in the responses to the statements. However, the results are limited by the convenience of the sample and also/mainly by the ability and willingness of the students to consider their learning objectively, to confess whether they are able to learn autonomously, in particular, whether they have sufficient level of inner motivation to learn.

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Kostolanyova, K., Klimszova, S., Guziurova, T., Javorcik, T., Jelinkova, B., Simonova, I. (2023). Online Distance Instruction in Higher Education Through the Lens of Students’ Experience. In: Auer, M.E., Pachatz, W., Rüütmann, T. (eds) Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition. ICL 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 634. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26190-9_61

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