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- Title
Portuguese higher education students' adaptation to online teaching and learning in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: personal and contextual factors.
- Authors
Flores, Maria Assunção; Barros, Alexandra; Simão, Ana Margarida Veiga; Pereira, Diana; Flores, Paulo; Fernandes, Eva; Costa, Luís; Ferreira, Paula Costa
- Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a global crisis affecting all sectors of society. Higher education is no exception. The closure of higher education institutions has dictated a sudden and unexpected transition from face-to-face to remote teaching to mitigate the spread of the SARS-CoV-2. This paper draws upon a wider piece of research which aimed to understand how higher education students adapted to the closure of their institution and how they looked at their experience of online teaching and learning. In total, 2718 students from different Portuguese higher education institutions participated in the study. Findings showed that both personal and contextual factors explained students' positive or negative adaptation to online teaching and learning as a result of the closure of higher education institutions. Institutional and pedagogical responses, individual self-regulatory and socio-emotional competencies and adequate resources were factors that led to either a more positive or negative student experience of online teaching and learning in times of COVID-19.
- Subjects
HIGHER education; ONLINE education; COVID-19 pandemic; SCHOOLS; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges
- Publication
Higher Education (00181560), 2022, Vol 83, Issue 6, p1389
- ISSN
0018-1560
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10734-021-00748-x