Cited by 288Education during COVID-19 pandemicE-Learning and COVID-19Educational Innovations and Technology

Attempts, Successes, and Failures of Distance Learning in the Time of COVID-19

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Dietrich, Nicolas, Kentheswaran, Kalyani, Ahmadi, Aras, Teychené, Johanne, Bessière, Yolaine, Alfenore, Sandrine, Laborie, Stéphanie, Bastoul, Dominique +8 more·2020·Journal of Chemical Education

Abstract

Over 1.7 billion students around the world have had their education disrupted by the spread of the Coronavirus disease worldwide. Schools and universities have not faced this level of disruption since World War II. The COVID-19 pandemic presented a colossal challenge for teachers to urgently and massively adapt all their classes to distance learning in order to maintain educational continuity with the same quality. Even if some teachers and certain classes were ready to face the situation, a large majority had to adapt their teaching and learning in a very short time without training, with insufficient bandwidth, and with little preparation. This unexpected and rapid transition to online learning has led to a multiplication of teachers’ strategies for distance learning in lectures, tutorials, project groups, lab works, and assessments. The purpose of this paper is to present the feedback from students and teachers who participated in the lockdown semester of two different groups of a 5-year program in Chemistry, Environment and Chemical Engineering (100 students) at INSA Toulouse (France). The analysis has highlighted some great successes and some failures in the solutions proposed. Consequently, some guidelines can be given to help us all to learn the lessons of such a singular experience in order to face the unexpected future with more knowledge and more successful distance learning. Teachers have shown very strong resilience during this crisis, at the cost of significant personal commitment. They admit that they have learned more about distance education in two months than in the last 10 years.

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  • Studies that explicitly discussed online assessment tools mentioned student concerns about not completing tests in time and inflexible online quizzes, internet connections dropping out during tests, just-in-time quizzes on mobile devices, and educator concerns about online proctoring.

    “Studies that did explicitly discuss the use of online assessment tools mentioned student concerns around not completing tests in time and online quizzes being inflexible with answers (Dietrich et al., 2020), internet connections dropping out during tests and affecting completion (Means & Neisler, 2020), the use of ‘just in time’ quizzes delivered to students’ mobile devices (Chen et al., 2021),”

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Dietrich, N., Kentheswaran, K., Ahmadi, A., Teychené, J., Bessière, Y., Alfenore, S., Laborie, S., Bastoul, D., Loubière, K., Guigui, C., Sperandio, M., Barna, L., Paul, E., Cabassud, C., Liné, A., & Hébrard, G.
Affiliations
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
  • Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INRAE, INSA , , , ,
  • Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INPT, UPS , , , ,
Corresponding author
Dietrich, Nicolas
Venue
Journal of Chemical Education
Published
2020-08-03
Volume
97
Issue
9
Pages
2448-2457
ISSN
  • 0021-9584 (ISSN-L)
  • 1938-1328
OpenAlex
W3047334680
Cited by
288
References
74
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 39 · 2023: 60 · 2022: 75 · 2021: 88 · 2020: 6
FWCI
86.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Chemical Education (publishedVersion)
  • Open Archive Toulouse Archive Ouverte (University of Toulouse) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Indian National Science Academy
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Education during COVID-19 pandemic
  • Social Sciences › Education › E-Learning and COVID-19
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Educational Innovations and Technology
Keywords
distance education, COVID-19 pandemic, online learning, educational continuity, teacher resilience, teacher-student feedback, chemistry education, chemical engineering education, environmental science education, pedagogical adaptation

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