Abstract

This paper aimed to shad the light on the student’s online experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. The coercitif of current situation by the unexpected circumstances caused by COVID-19 has led the universities around the globe to come up with an urgent solution and ideas to overcome those effected aspects of teaching and learning. Many universities have been compelled to close their doors and focus their efforts on online learning. Many universities has been forced to shut down the entire university and shifted onto online educational activities. The study targeted universities students in different university in Bahrain. To fulfill the study’s objectives, quantitative method was applied in this study. The major instrument for the study was a questionnaire, which was utilized to obtain the desired sample size. The study used Smart PLS to analyze the gathered data. The study findings reported that students’ online experience on virtual education during the COVID-19 pandemic era seems to be different from physical learning; the majority of them believe that learning is better in physical classrooms than through online education. More engagements from the relevant authorities by put in place more legislation and strict regulations in order to ensure the process and the effectiveness of virtual education.

Highlights

  • The study findings reported that students’ online experience on virtual education during the COVID-19 pandemic era seems to be different from physical learning; the majority of them believe that learning is better in physical classrooms than through online education

  • Based on the descriptive analysis of the study as showed in above Figure 1 and Table 1 and Table 2, 16.7% of the students were strongly agreed that learning takes place better in physical classrooms than through online education, where 33% of the students were impartial in reply to this item, and 28.6% appeared to be strongly agreed that learning is better in physical classrooms than through online education

  • In search of a new teaching method, prior research investigated the recent and previous related issues related to online education

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Introduction

The pandemic outbreak coronavirus illness has resulted in an immense quantity. This virus, which was first detected in China in December (2019), has touched every element of human life, socially, economically, and politically. All gatherings, even family gatherings, are in some way prohibited. Colleges have been compelled to lock doors, prohibit students and staff from attending, and transfer all educational activities to virtual activities (Bao, 2020; Gandhi et al, 2020)

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