Investigating the application of emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic in higher education

Abstract

Saudi universities have put immense efforts in preparing and implementing home teaching as an alternative type of traditional teaching during the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis The present study aims to focus on outcome of applying Emergency Remote Teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic at Saudi Higher Education A quantitative research design was used to evaluate the students perspectives in terms of preparation, implementation, and assessment A total of 97 students were recruited from Prince Sattam bin Abdul-Aziz University A self-administered questionnaire, comprising of two parts was provided to the students The questionnaire s first part collected demographic details of the participants;whereas, second part was distributed into 34 items including preparation (7 items), implementation (8 items), and assessment (7 items), barriers to teaching practices during COVID-19 including 12 items The results showed that majority of the participant students positively responded towards the application of emergency remote teaching during COVID-19 (3 86 +/- 1 13) Considering the dimensions, preparation (3 98 +/- 1 12), implementation (3 77 +/- 1 17), and assessment (3 19 +/- 1 30), majority of the students gave positive response on majority of the items Moreover, there was no significant difference in the perspectives about applying emergency remote teaching during COVID-19 between both the genders The study concluded that most of the students favored emergency remote teaching as it facilitated self-learning