COVID-19 pandemic and the E-learning in higher institutions of education: Faculty of engineering and technology at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan as a case study

ABSTRACT

Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemics has spread rapidly around the world, sending millions of people into quarantine and lockdown. Based on that, the management of higher educational institutions had to use Internet technology in teaching as the only option to continue all the academic activities across all higher education institution worldwide. This paper aims to investigate how engineering students are coping with the e-learning methods adopted by Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan during the pandemic. A total of 470 have participated in this study from the faculty of engineering and technology at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan. From the findings of the survey, it was clear that students are satisfied with the online teaching and learning instituted by Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, despite few identified challenges.

KEYWORDS:

• COVID-19
• education quality
• online learning
• higher education institution

Declaration of interest statement

We have no known conflict of interest to disclose.