Open AccessEmergency Remote Teaching Application due to COVID-19 – A Case Study of the Department of Mathematics (School of Science) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Author(s) -
Μαργαρίτα Καραλιοπούλου,
Yiannis Mavrommatis,
Georgia Menounou,
St. Pantelopoulou
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
european journal of engineering and technology research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2736-576X
DOI - 10.24018/ejeng.2021.0.cie.2755
Subject(s) - distance education , covid-19 , emergency department , mathematics education , medical education , teleconference , face to face , pandemic , videoconferencing , psychology , computer science , multimedia , medicine , philosophy , disease , epistemology , pathology , psychiatry , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The aim of this study was to analyze students’ experience of the implementation of emergency distance learning by their department due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The subjects of the study were University students of the department of Mathematics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens selected with a convenience sampling technique. A semi-structured questionnaire was used which was distributed online. A total of 391 student responses were collected for analysis. The study’s results indicate that students identify some positive characteristics in emergency remote teaching such as: access to recorded video lectures, efficient time management, and comfortable environment. On the other hand, they complain about network instability, lack of technical means and lack of communication in e-learning lessons. It seems that the majority of students preferred courses combining face to face and e-learning methods and evaluated as excellent the synchronous form of distance learning that uses teleconference platforms and digital boards.