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‘Lockdown’: Digital and Emergency eLearning Technologies—A Student Perspective
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Desireé Cranfield ,
Andrea Tick ,
Renette J. Blignaut ,
Karen V. Renaud
Electronics, Volume: 11, Issue: 18, Start page: 2941
Swansea University Author:
Desireé Cranfield
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DOI (Published version): 10.3390/electronics11182941
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent emergency measures had a fundamentaland disruptive impact on societies and, in particular, on the educational sector. The transition of themodality of educational delivery from face-to-face to online occurred within days; this researchstudy considered the con...
| Published in: | Electronics |
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| ISSN: | 2079-9292 |
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Basel, Switzerland
MDPI AG
2022
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61260 |
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent emergency measures had a fundamentaland disruptive impact on societies and, in particular, on the educational sector. The transition of themodality of educational delivery from face-to-face to online occurred within days; this researchstudy considered the concepts of digital trust and digital access, using structuration, postmodernism, and critical social theory as lenses to understand Higher Education (HE) student experiencesduring the first wave of the lockdown. The study compared these aspects in Hungary, South Africa,and Wales (UK) with different digital and network readiness indices. The digital development ofthe countries is presented using both the Digital Intelligence and Network Readiness indices. Theresearch approach was cross-country, international, comparative, inductive, and quantitative. Theresearch study found that there was a significant relationship between the countries’ GDP and theirnetwork readiness, impacting students’ online learning experiences. Significant differences werefound between the participating universities in terms of digital access and digital trust; this researchprovides valuable insights for informing future pedagogical approaches and teaching best practice,specifically for residential universities. Understanding challenges and barriers to student learningexperiences, and the impact of inequitable access to digital technologies and communication, is keyfor future pedagogical policy and practice. Several recommendations are made to inform practice |
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| Keywords: |
COVID-19; higher education; student learning; digital technologies; digital trust; digital access; online learning; equitable access; country comparisons |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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This research received no external funding. |
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18 |
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2941 |