Teaching and Learning during the Pandemic Closure: The Higher Education Students’ Perspective

Abstract

The goal of this chapter is to determine students' readiness, perceptions, and feelings about distance learning during the pandemic lockdown. Distance learning happens while an instructor is physically located in a different place from the learner and uses emerging media and related experiences to produce learning opportunities. The study's participants are eighteen female undergraduate students participating in an Education Summer 2020 course at an Abu Dhabi federal college. It takes a mixed-methods approach, looking at students' reflective journals as well as their replies to qualitative and quantitative surveys. The study's important findings demonstrate that the educational institution was prepared for distance learning, as were the students.