This study aims to evaluate the opportunities and limitations of switching from conventional, face-to-face education to online, asynchronous education made possible by the Fourth Industrial Revolution's technology. This transition has been considerably expedited in several nations by the COVID-19 epidemic. Desktop analysis was used to conduct the…

When moving a district to a 1:1 computing environment, a great deal of planning is necessary to ensure the program's success. Implementing this level of change requires those plans to simultaneously look at the big picture of how these devices affect instruction while also dealing with the minute details of supporting such an endeavor. With the…

Purpose: Numerous academic institutions have embarked on the pursuit of hybrid learning as an alternative approach, catering to students who opt for replacing a fraction of their conventional in-person meeting schedule with remote teaching. However, these new remote learning patterns have brought forth new stands against students' expectations.…

The widespread development of modern technologies, particularly the internet, has triggered an explosive growth of distance learning. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, moving to distance learning platforms to continue education has become necessary. Kazakhstan's radical teaching and learning mode change from face-to-face to online has brought…

Technology has been an indispensable tool for education following the COVID-19 pandemic. Some habits adopted during that period, such as remote learning and teaching, have not yet been wholly abandoned, even if they occur in a minor measure since they can improve learning by adopting technology and developing technological skills. The research…

Digital learning technologies have grown increasingly important in physics education, partly enforced through the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, digital technologies allowed for continued teaching and learning of students even when schools were closed. While research in psychology and educational technology has yielded many insights into…

While recordings of lectures proved invaluable for students' learning during the pandemic, as our university transitioned back to in-person teaching there was a call from many lecturers to remove the requirement to provide lecture recordings due to the perceived negative impact on attendance. To examine in detail the relationship between…

In this descriptive analysis, we consider the experiences of students who prefer face-to-face (F2F) classes but, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, had no alternative other than taking their introductory biology class online during the 2020-2021 academic year. We conducted focus group interviews with 12 college students who enrolled in an asynchronous…

Objectives: The present study describes the utilization frequency and competencies of educational technologies among academics at a university in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Participants were 391 faculty members and lecturers working in the faculties and vocational schools of a Turkish university during the 2020-2021 academic…

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to determine the differences in students' attitudes related to online and traditional teaching, then to determine the level of student satisfaction with online teaching, factors affecting it as well as to examine the problems students most often face during online teaching. Design/methodology/approach: The survey…

Although a number of studies have explored the experiences of remote English language teaching in response to COVID-19, yet to be addressed is English language teacher-educators' beliefs regarding their online tutoring practices. This article reports on the finding of a study which attempted to identify tutors' beliefs about the differences…

Tonia Hap Murphy is a Teaching Professor at the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame. For her, the biggest shock was moving from in-person teaching to online teaching. Notre Dame announced on March 11, 2020, that students, then on spring break, should not return to campus and would finish the semester online. Online classes would…

The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled the use of technology in education through platforms such as YouTube and immersive technologies (e.g., virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)). Despite their potential to improve equity, access, engagement, and cognitive achievement, studies comparing their impacts on learning outcomes are scarce. This…

The pandemic transformed higher education, making it clear that the future of education lies in the use of technology. Recognizing this development, this study examined the blended learning experiences of students and teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to propose targeted strategies for the evolving "phygital" (physical +…

Inspired by the Vietnamese government's national digital transformation program and the persistent COVID-19 pandemic implications, including the potential for disease resurgence, Tra Vinh University has adopted a strategic blended learning approach. This approach seamlessly combines traditional classroom instruction with advanced online pedagogy…