Open AccessAssessing instructors’ usage of emojis in distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Author(s) -
Reem Al-Zou’bi,
Fathi Shamma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cypriot journal of educational sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.22
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1305-905X
pISSN - 1305-9076
DOI - 10.18844/cjes.v16i1.5520
Subject(s) - distance education , emoji , covid-19 , pandemic , sample (material) , psychology , medical education , mathematics education , computer science , social media , medicine , world wide web , chemistry , disease , pathology , chromatography , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This research assessed instructors’ usage of emojis in distance education for high diploma students. A quantitative approach was employed comprising an e-survey consisting of 11-items, one closed-ended question, and two open-ended questions. The participants were a randomly selected sample of 343 high diploma students, 243 attending Al al-Bayt University (AABU) in Jordan and 100 students attending the Arab Academic College in Haifa (AAC). The results indicated that instructors’ usage of emojis in distance education was moderate in both universities. All students strongly preferred instructors to use emojis to express what is on their minds as an alternative to facial expressions, and female instructors were more active in using emojis in virtual lectures. The emoji used most frequently by distance education instructors for the sample was the thumbs-up emoji ( ). Based on the results, several recommendations are put forth that will be of value to researchers and workers in this field.
Keywords: Distance Education; Emojis; COVID-19