High school students’ experiences with emergency remote teaching

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the closure of schools in Turkey and the online delivery of education through digital tools. The aim of the study is to reveal the experiences and opinions of high school students in the emergency remote teaching process. In this sense, data was collected with semi-structured interview form with 25 high school students. The data obtained within the scope of the study were analyzed by content analysis method. The results show that student experiences are shaped around four dimensions as a learning environment, affective, technological literacy and teaching-learning process. In general, it shows that students have difficulties in integrating into the new learning environment. In order not to experience similar problems in the future emergency remote teaching process and to integrate more effectively, a systematically and effectively planned distance learning system should be designed, and the necessary trainings should be provided for educators to master online pedagogy.

Keywords

• Emergency remote teaching
• High school students
• Experience
• COVID-19

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