Experience of using distance technology to teach Chinese undergraduates during the COVID-19 pandemic

Olga Fedotova,Vladimir Latun,Igor Filkevich,Elena Platonova,Oleg Igumnov,D Rudoy,A Olshevskaya,V Kankhva

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202021022019

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the organization of the educational process in Russian universities. The object of the research is the experience of implementing e-education and the transition to distance technologies for continuing education of Chinese undergraduates in the Russian metropolitan university. Russian universities had the technical capabilities and used various electronic educational platforms. In the same time, the results of the survey showed a decrease in the satisfaction of Chinese full-time students when switching to distance learning. The study shows the significant factors that had a negative impact on the educational process using distance technology to teach Chinese undergraduates during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors have grouped these factors into five groups (technical, language, emotional, and financial, content of lecture). Identification of these factors made it possible to develop a program to improve the educational process and enhance the satisfaction of foreign students studying at Russian universities.

Highlights

The rapid spread of COVID-19 infection since January 2020 has become a pandemic and has made significant adjustments to the organization of the educational process in Russian universities
Before the introduction of electronic education in all Russian universities in connection with a new coronavirus infection, Russian universities had accumulated some experience in using educational technologies based on information and telecommunications networks, which ensured the interaction of students and teachers at a distance
The main objective of our work is to describe some results of the experience of using distance technologies for teaching Chinese undergraduates, highlighting the negative factors in mastering the educational material and determining the satisfaction of Chinese undergraduates with the results of e-learning in the second semester of the 2019/2020 academic year

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Introduction

The rapid spread of COVID-19 infection since January 2020 has become a pandemic and has made significant adjustments to the organization of the educational process in Russian universities. The transition of Russian universities to e-learning and the widespread use of distance learning technologies entirely was a landmark event for the Russian educational environment. Before the introduction of electronic education in all Russian universities in connection with a new coronavirus infection, Russian universities had accumulated some experience in using educational technologies based on information and telecommunications networks, which ensured the interaction of students and teachers at a distance. All Russian universities had the technical capabilities and used various electronic educational platforms.

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