Abstract
The purpose was to investigate the Arabic language teachers' perspectives on online VC effectiveness during and beyond COVID-19. Participants were 340 teachers. This study employed cross-sectional descriptive method, with the main focus on Arabic Language teachers' perspectives on online VC effectiveness during and beyond COVID-19. Findings from descriptive analysis of the teachers’ responses on the importance of using virtual classrooms in distance education program shoed that the rank agree comes first, where teachers responded with agree in 17 items, 2 with strongly agree and only one item for disagree. Using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), findings showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the responses of the study sample towards the use of virtual classrooms by gender, while academic qualification and years of experience contributed significantly, where those with higher qualification, and who are experts had positive perspectives on online VCs effectiveness during and beyond COVID-19.
 KEYWORDS. Virtual Teaching, Online Virtual Classroom, Covid-19
Highlights
Covid-19 has invaded most countries of the world, and this has forced all educational institutions to shift to e-learning or distance education
Findings from descriptive analysis of the teachers’ responses on the importance of using virtual classrooms in distance education program shoed that the rank agree comes first, where teachers responded with agree in 17 items, 2 with strongly agree and only one item for disagree
What is the importance of using VCs in the distance education program as perceived by Arabic language teachers?
Summary
Covid-19 has invaded most countries of the world, and this has forced all educational institutions to shift to e-learning or distance education. School aged children and young people in most countries around the world have had to stay in their homes after the closure of schools (WHO Regional Office for Europe,2021). This pandemic made schools offer their courses online while staff worked remotely in order to protect millions of students and themselves (Altun etal.,2021; Alyoussef 2021; Bilgin, and Erhan, 2021; Karaman et al.,2020). The use of the Internet and educational institutions began, and knowledge was exchanged through the means of communication. The search results in Google revealed that there are more than (400) universities and electronic colleges (Online University), and that more than (35,000) teachers and (250,000) students use e-learning before the Corona pandemic, and that there are university portals and that there are more than (1700) Online university course in the United States only(Al-Rahmi et al.,2020)
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