Iraqi University Students’ Emergency Remote Learning Experiences During Covid-19

Authors

  • Haitham Numan Mass Communication and Public Relations Dep, The College of Administrative & Financial Sciences, Gulf University
  • Mokhtar Elareshi Al Ain University of Science and Technology http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5706-3828
  • Dimitrinak Atanasova Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v16i18.31127

Keywords:

Covid-19, emergency remote education, Iraq universities, eLearning, students’ perceptions

Abstract


The Covid-19 outbreak spurred the adoption of eLearning in many countries around the world, but relatively little is known about students’ experience on the subject. This study examined university students’ knowledge and experience of face-to-face and emergency remote education in two well-known universities in Iraq. An online survey with random sampling approach was used, and a total of 323 respondents shared their learning experiences, satisfaction, preferences, and challenges using a remote learning system was analysed. The findings indicated that respondents were not able to cope with the remote teaching system in the short term, expressing somehow their negative experience with it overall. Given the instability situation in Iraq is hard to predict the successful outcomes of such system in the long term. Respondents’ preferences were still for a face-to-face education system, thus they highlighted the challenges for eLearning in Iraq, especially those related to improving the facilities e.g., Internet infrastructure and online system.

Author Biography

Mokhtar Elareshi, Al Ain University of Science and Technology

College of Communication and Media
Cover iJIM Vol. 16 No. 18 (2022)

Downloads

Published

2022-10-03

How to Cite

Numan, H. ., Elareshi, M., & Atanasova, D. . (2022). Iraqi University Students’ Emergency Remote Learning Experiences During Covid-19. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 16(18), pp. 162–173. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v16i18.31127

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 18 (2022)

Section

Papers

License

Copyright (c) 2022 Haitham Numan, Mokhtar Elareshi, Dimitrinak Atanasova, Abdulkrim Ziani

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The submitting author warrants that the submission is original and that she/he is the author of the submission together with the named co-authors; to the extend the submission incorporates text passages, figures, data or other material from the work of others, the submitting author has obtained any necessary permission.
Articles in this journal are published under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY What does this mean?). This is to get more legal certainty about what readers can do with published articles, and thus a wider dissemination and archiving, which in turn makes publishing with this journal more valuable for you, the authors.
By submitting an article the author grants to this journal the non-exclusive right to publish it. The author retains the copyright and the publishing rights for his article without any restrictions.
This journal has been awarded the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journals (What's this?)