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Undergraduates' Barriers to Online Learning During the Pandemic in Greece

Authors: Marinos Anastasakis, Georgios Triantafyllou, Konstantinos Petridis

Published in: Technology, Knowledge and Learning | Issue 3/2023

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In this paper we explore the difficulties undergraduates from Greek Higher Educational Institutions faced during the transition to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By analyzing qualitative data from an online survey (N = 2093), we were able to identify the barriers undergraduates encountered during this transition and make inferences about the quality of the way online learning was implemented. The most frequently reported barriers include problems that undergraduates perceived as being caused by their lecturers, internet connection issues during an online lecture and the perceived limited social interactions that synchronous environments can afford. The paper argues that the way online learning was implemented by Greek Higher Educational Institutions did not result a meaningful learning experience for undergraduates. Our results are relevant to universities that are either forced in implementing emergency online protocols or wish to support their undergraduates’ learning experience.

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Title: Undergraduates' Barriers to Online Learning During the Pandemic in Greece
Authors: Marinos Anastasakis
Georgios Triantafyllou
Konstantinos Petridis
Publication date: 01-12-2021
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Technology, Knowledge and Learning / Issue 3/2023
Print ISSN: 2211-1662
Electronic ISSN: 2211-1670
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-021-09584-5

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