ABSTRACT
The Lebanese educational system muddles through the Covid-19 pandemic with limitations to effective application of Online Teaching/Learning, and official indecisiveness towards going back to face-to-face instruction. A national survey on 7095 respondents from the different educational stakeholders in Lebanon was launched to by the Center for Educational Research and Development in order to identify the online learning experience of the Lebanese educational community. This paper analyzes the needs and the gaps of Online teaching in a country where approximately 70% of the schools had their first experience in online learning during the COVID 19 pandemic and where approximately 60% of the students attend online classes using their cell phones. The paper compares the perception of 3 groups: students, parents, and teachers. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.