Challenges of Online Teaching During COVID-19 in the Context of Higher Education: From Teachers Perspectives

Abstract

Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, most of the worlds teaching activities had to shift online in a few days or weeks, and this sudden and unprecedented teaching practice brings significant challenges to teachers. However, there are numerous empirical research studies conducted to understand the challenges of online teaching; these relatively decentralized and independent studies involve teachers and students across different countries, and a review paper is needed to summarize these challenges to form a new theoretical framework. Therefore, this paper aims to review the challenges teachers face in online teaching during Covid-19 in the context of higher education. The results demonstrated four dimensions of challenges teachers faced during online teaching in the higher education context: technological, pedagogical, psychological, and managerial. Challenges and obstacles from four dimensions hinder college teachers success in online teaching during Covid-19. The results help us better understand the challenges that teachers encountered when teaching online during Covid-19 in the context of high education, thus providing sufficient assistance for educational institutions, school managers, and relevant key stakeholders to carry out online teaching practices smoothly in other emergencies in the future.