Abstract
The aim was to investigate the role of online stakeholder groups, Instructional Design and Student satisfaction in predicting Quality of distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey method was used . The online stakeholder groups, Instructional Design and Student satisfaction are the IVs, while the dependent variable is Quality of distance education. Students were selected for data collection. An online questionnaire was used to collect data from the target students. Data were collected via an online questionnaire survey. I shared with students an online link via Facebook and WhatsApp groups to reach most of the University students to fill up the online questionnaire. This study has unique implications for universities as it provides guidelines for universities to implement distance education effectively ,hoping to facilitate students learning. This research study contributes to the literature of distance education. It is a unique study in its handling of variables such as online stakeholder groups, Instructional Design and Student satisfaction as predictors of distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
 Keywords: online stakeholder groups, Instructional Design ,Student satisfaction ,Quality of distance education
Highlights
Since the end of the year 2019, the world has witnessed a major event that threatened us and targeted our lives which is the spread of the Corona virus
The current study provided evidence that quality of distance education is a vital element for students success in an emergency situation like COVID-19
These results of this research study are in line with previous studies which proved that distance education has a positive effect on student satisfaction ( Nortviget al., 2018; Tahoon, 2021;Vate-U-Lan, 2020)
Summary
Since the end of the year 2019, the world has witnessed a major event that threatened us and targeted our lives which is the spread of the Corona virus. This epidemic originated in China the Chinese province of Wuhan and spread in the parts of the earth(Altun, Salih Ahmet and Caner ,2021). As a result of this event, the education sector was exposed to a tremendous crisis, perhaps the most dangerous in contemporary history, as it caused the interruption of more than 1.6 billion children and youth from education in 161 countries during the school year in 2020, and this came at a time when most of these countries are suffering (Altun, Salih , Ahmet , and Caner,2021; Bilgin and Erhan,2021 ). Among them( Ammary,2020) :
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