Abstract
Like most university students worldwide, the engineering students at the School of Information Sciences (ESI) have to deal with their school closure and the new paradigm of distance learning. Despite efforts made by the administration and the teachers to accompany students, an internal survey conducted by the end of October 2021 revealed that almost all students, especially first-year ones, did not accept distance learning. This paper describes our experience to improve students’ satisfaction with distance learning by involving them in their courses’ design process. Four courses were concerned by the experience and were designed following the ADDIE method. Last-year students participated in the ADDIE analysis step, while the first-year students participated in the last step by evaluating the co-created courses. Courses were co-created with students as most of them got involved in the ADDIE development step and enriched courses by realizing extras activities. Results showed that students were highly satisfied with courses taught in the context of this study.
Highlights
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we work, learn, eat and chill out [1]
An internal survey conducted by the end of October 2021 revealed that most ESI school students disagreed with distance learning
As we chose flipped classroom (FL) as an instructional strategy and regarding the fact that all the courses had to be taught in full distance learning, we proposed synchronous and asynchronous activities (Fig. 10)
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we work, learn, eat and chill out [1]. It is still changing every single action in our daily life. In Morocco, a national lockdown was decided to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The lockdown started in March 2020 and lasted for three months. Like many other universities worldwide [2], our engineering school ESI switched to full-distance learning during the COVID-19 lockdown. ESI or school of information science is an engineering public school located in Rabat, Morocco’s capital. Since the COVID-19 situation in Morocco did not improve by September 2020, with almost three thousand new positive cases and fifty deaths per day [3], the ESI school has continued full distance learning for the first semester 2020-21
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