TECHNOLOGY FATIGUE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: THE CASE OF DISTANCE PROJECT-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

Year 2023, Volume: 24 Issue: 1, 234 - 245, 01.01.2023

Ensaf Nasser Al Mulhım

https://doi.org/10.17718/tojde.1034006

Cited By: 8

Abstract

Technology has invaded all spheres of life, including education and providing a lot of facilities. It has played a great role in managing education during the COVID-19 crisis. However, technology might prove detrimental if there is too much of it which may negatively affect its users in some way. This study aimed to investigate final-year students’ technology fatigue in distance project-based learning environments during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The study employed an online survey approach to collect data from 86 final-year students. The results showed that technology does not highly fatigue final-year students in distance project-based learning environments. Still, the study reported some factors that contribute to increasing and decreasing final-year students’ technology fatigue level, which may inform project supervisors and decision-makers on the best practice for implementing distance project-based learning without putting students under great pressure and fatigue resulting from technology. This study adds to a limited yet growing body of literature on a very important topic, technology fatigue, that has recently arisen in the academic sector especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when technology was the quickest and most ideal response to the global lockdown.

Keywords

distance learning, project-based learning environments, Saudi Arabia, technology fatigue, university students

Supporting Institution

Deanship of Scientific Research at King Faisal University

Project Number

Grant No. 206090

Thanks

The author acknowledges the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Faisal University for the financial support under Nasher Track (Grant No. 206090).

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