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Shailoo Bedi; Jillian Roberts; Celeste Duff – SAGE Open, 2024
Research indicates that the adverse effects on post-secondary students from the COVID-19 pandemic are unprecedented on a global scale. Specifically, there is limited research that focuses on international students' mental wellness, resilience, and well-being experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study qualitatively explores the resilience…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, Mental Health
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Elizabeth Hilliard; Brittany Twiss – SAGE Open, 2023
Isolation, quarantine, and fear of the Coronavirus have led to increases in mental health concerns in adults and teens. While research has begun documenting the increased rates of mental illness resulting from the pandemic, there has been little in-depth exploration of how teens from diverse backgrounds are experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic. The…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Adolescents, Resilience (Psychology)
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Hessah Saleh Aldayel – SAGE Open, 2024
With the spread of COVID-19 all over the world, the transformation of the educational system and the implementation of remote lessons became the only possible variant to continue the process of teaching students for English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers. This tendency was unexpected and became rather difficult for teachers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, COVID-19
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Mensah, Isaac Kofi; Zeng, Guohua; Luo, Chuanyong; Lu, Mengqiu; Xiao, Zhi-Wu – SAGE Open, 2022
This research paper investigated the adoption behavior of college students toward the e-learning system amidst the current COVID-19. The model was developed and validated based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to analyze the data. The data was generated from 316…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Intention, College Students, COVID-19
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Brian Mumba; Yasmin Sultana-Muchindu – SAGE Open, 2024
The study examined students' attitudes toward online learning classes introduced during the pandemic lockdown among students at the University of Lusaka. The study adopted a quantitative methodology with descriptive and comparative design methods. The study developed an attitude scale toward online learning and administered it to 1,542 students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Online Courses, COVID-19
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Fereshteh Ahmadi; Saeid Zandi; Mohammad Khodayarifard; Önver A. Cetrez; Sharareh Akhavan – SAGE Open, 2023
The coronavirus pandemic changed the academic world in many ways, and most academic institutions continue operating through teleworking. The aim of the present study was to determine how satisfied the university community (faculty/staff members and students) in Iran has been with remote work, and the ways in which they have dealt with the lockdown…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, COVID-19, Pandemics, Teleworking
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Jiang, Xiaohua; Nam, Benjamin H.; Tian, Xiaoyong; Jin, Hui – SAGE Open, 2023
Despite the growing body of literature on the structural problems of emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, far too little empirical research has been conducted on university academics' challenges in online pedagogy and what is needed to facilitate their teaching during a time of educational crisis. Thus, this study selects a…
Descriptors: Coping, Emergency Programs, Distance Education, Web Based Instruction
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Gurban, Masouda A.; Almogren, Abeer S. – SAGE Open, 2022
The purpose of this study was to look at factors that might influence whether or not academics will use e-learning during the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The goal of this paper is to look into the effect of perceived interaction, educational materials, playfulness, perceived enjoyment, self-efficacy, perceived usefulness, and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Mariam A. Alterkait; Manal Y. Alduaij – SAGE Open, 2024
Based on the information system success and situational strength theories, this study explores the moderating effect of learner quality and instructor quality on the relationship between information quality and student satisfaction with e-learning. Survey data were collected from 333 college students, and the proposed relationships were assessed…
Descriptors: Learning Management Systems, Educational Quality, Online Courses, Student Attitudes
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Mohammed Ali, Alkahtani – SAGE Open, 2021
Faculty at the special education department of the University held mixed concerns about e-learning opportunities for Students with Disabilities (SWD) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research investigated their attitude using a questionnaire survey. The sample was 70 faculty members who specialized in tutoring students with disabilities. The…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Students with Disabilities, COVID-19
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Zhang, Kun; Wu, Haoxian – SAGE Open, 2022
The outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019 had soon become a pandemic, leading to the lockdown of schools all around the world. To mitigate the negative impacts brought by COVID-19, the educational institutions of all levels have inevitably shifted from face-to-face teaching to online teaching. For English language teaching, fully synchronous online…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses
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Sijing Zhou; Yu Zhou – SAGE Open, 2024
Prior research on online language learning is extensive but mainly focused on higher education setting. However, secondary school learners' distance learning experiences and psychological profile have been largely neglected due to the fact that teenagers are rarely involved in distance learning. This situation has changed with schools moving their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, High School Students, Psychological Patterns
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Jiyoon Yoon; Katie Koo – SAGE Open, 2024
This case study aims to investigate the effectiveness of an online science enhancement program in retaining ethnic minority students in science by providing them with opportunities to interact with cultural role-models of scientists and engineers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study draws on foundational theories of identity formation and…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, High School Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Cultural Influences
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Chen, Chen – SAGE Open, 2021
This study explores international Chinese as a foreign language students' use of embedded scaffolding materials to facilitate their learning in an autonomous online context during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 60 international students enrolled in a Chinese university participated in the study. Data were collected via participants' reflective…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Online Courses
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Ali, Holi Ibrahim Holi; Al-Saadi, Zulaikha; Scatolini, Sergio Saleem – SAGE Open, 2022
This study seeks to contribute to the incipient pool of research on graduate attributes (GAs) by reporting on a study of the GAs of Omani English language teacher (ELT) education programs and the role being played in this area by the Oman Authority for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Education (OAAAQA), formerly known as Oman…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction