The present study was undertaken to obtain a clearer picture of teachers' online instructional delivery and identify difficulties that might require intervention. Specifically, the following research questions are addressed: (1) What are teachers' practices to promote learning in a fully online learning space? (2) What challenges do teachers…

The importance of the study lies within the gap in practice where online education focuses primarily on the student experience and technology, leaving little focus on the successes and challenges of the instructors. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to look at the perceptions of adjunct faculty towards the successes, challenges, and…

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted traditional design education, forcing educators to adopt digital classrooms for architectural design instruction, which has led to various challenges and suboptimal student performance. This research explores effective online design teaching methods, particularly across different design modules…

The present study seeks to provide an overview of online learning, the concerns of remote teaching, the challenges facing online teaching, and the strategies that might be adopted to enhance students' engagement in the educational process. The study found that effectiveness, quality, engagement, costs, and equity were the most reported concerns…

This study examined faculty experiences and perceptions regarding online education during the COVID-19 global health crisis. An online survey was assessed for content validity using a team of faculty experts in online teaching and learning. It was administered to a convenience sample of faculty at a Midwestern university. Of the 963 faculty who…

Online teaching became a mandate during the COVID-19 pandemic. Irrespective of technical expertise of teachers or students each one of them were made to sit before their mobile or laptop to complete the course curriculum and their examinations. The present study was carried out amongst university students, to find out the perception and…

The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the impact of the rapid shift to online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic on a community college. This study focused on examining the attitudes of the faculty towards online teaching and their teaching practices. Additionally, the study aimed to understand the impact of the rapid shift to…

In 2020, the world was affected by a highly transmissible new influenza A virus called the coronavirus (COVID-19) (CDC, 2020). Due to social distancing restrictions, academic nurse educators (ANE) needed to suspend traditional teaching and clinical methods to decrease the potential for disease transmission (Wyatt et al., 2021). ANEs turned to…

COVID-19 presented educators with a quick transition to virtual teaching. The problem was that secondary teachers in southwest Florida had to overcome obstacles, including preparedness, to teach successfully using different modalities during the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic. Research on this topic is important because teachers' perceptions will…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries imposed restrictions on daily movements and operations, which resulted in the physical closure of academic institutions. As the world moved online, a University in Guyana also transitioned its programmes. However, operating in an online environment was fraught with challenges relating to inadequate…

This paper aims to study the effects that asynchronous and synchronous instructional methods have on student perceptions and attitudes towards online education. We analyze both qualitative and quantitative survey responses from 496 students in three large (greater than 200 enrolled students) first-year calculus classes at the University of Guelph.…

In the years 2020 and 2021, a total of 1,142,352 international students pursued their higher education degrees in the U.S. (SEVIS, 2022), many learning in English for the very first time. International students benefit from interaction in the classroom to support their learning and continued English language development (Loewen & Sato, 2018).…

The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine how the instructor uses transformational leadership with the students in the classroom and how this interaction impacts the online learning experience for the student. By incorporating this leadership style to the instructional learning methods used in the classroom instructors can reinforce what…

With most research mainly done on the challenges of students in online learning, this study is conducted to go to the personal level of struggles of teachers during the shift of teaching methods from traditional to online. Teachers from different countries (Ghana, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates, the Philippines, Japan, and…

Once considered a marginal and untrustworthy pedagogical approach by higher education institutions, online learning has become mainstream. Consider this -- the entire educational system -- at the global level, from P-12 to the college level, shut down following the declaration of the lockdown period of the novel coronavirus disease 2019.…