Abstract
The shift to an online education paradigm has been dramatically seen in educational systems and universities due to COVID-19 across the world, especially in United Arab Emirates. The emergence of COVID-19 forced educational institutions to divert all strategies from physical to online platforms for the safety of students, instructors and all the other staff members. However, this is not the case in educational institutions only because other governmental and non-governmental institutions are affected in the same way around the world. The objective of this research is to understand the behavior of students due to a sudden shift towards an online education experience in university environment and gauge their preference either on physical or online education system for the future. The research collected data through an online questionnaire from 210 undergraduate university students which further helped the researcher to draw the discussion and conclusion. The research proves that a high majority of students are willing to change from physical education to an online platforms and they believe that they can perform well by the adoption of this new platform of online education system. The research recommendations are helpful for the educational policy developers.
Highlights
The outbreak of COVID-19 in United Arab Emirates along with other countries in the world may cause significant disruption to the provision of education, training and mobility opportunities for learners, teachers and educators across the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
It is difficult to measure the number of students from which universities in UAE participated in the survey of this research because majority of the students used
Online education and e-learning have always been an important part of the education system, as they come with many benefits that physical education cannot provide
Summary
The outbreak of COVID-19 in United Arab Emirates along with other countries in the world may cause significant disruption to the provision of education, training and mobility opportunities for learners, teachers and educators across the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In December 2019, the World Health Organization received a report of a group of pneumonia cases from an unknown source in Wuhan, China. This would later be known as the Coronavirus pandemic. It was classed as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30th January by the World Health Organization and would soon go on to be classified as a pandemic on 11 March [1], [2]. COVID-19 continues to rampage globally and has resulted in a mass closure of facilities
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