Abstract
During attempts to prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic in China, higher education programs shifted their traditional educational models to online models. This paper aimed to explore how Chinese universities organized online teaching and learning during the pandemic. It investigated the factors affecting the implementation of online teaching and provided policy recommendations for improving the quality of education in the post-pandemic period. The primary data for this study came from in-depth interviews with nine students and five teaching and administrative staff at eight major universities in mainland China. Literature was obtained in both English and Chinese from January 2020 to September 2021. Peer-reviewed journals, policy reports, and university documents regarding online education in Chinese universities were reviewed, and their challenges and countermeasures were investigated. The paper found that the implementation of online education was affected by various sources, including technologies, teachers’ teaching skills, network information literacy, and students’ learning motivations and self-directed learning skills. Based on the insiders’ views, the paper suggested that to promote the quality of online education in the post-COVID-19 pandemic, higher education institutes and programs could develop their infrastructure construction, improve teachers’ quality of teaching, and focus on students’ learning motivations.
Keywords
pandemics, online teaching, online learning model, higher education in China, pandemic
ORCID Identifiers
Youliang Zhang: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1171-1399
Yidan Zhu: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2105-5436
Tongjie Chen: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4090-7274
Tongfei Ma: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7093-9552
DOI
10.5038/2577-509X.8.2.1336
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Y., Zhu, Y., Chen, T., & Ma, T. (2024). Online teaching and learning at Chinese universities during COVID-19: Insiders’ perspectives. Journal of Global Education and Research, 8(2), 161-179. https://www.doi.org/10.5038/2577-509X.8.2.1336
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