What is it they want? Student perceptions of emergency remote teaching

ABSTRACT

The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus made it necessary for schools around the world to adopt emergency remote teaching (ERT) practices;many schools opted to move to online classes. This chapter reports on student perceptions of ERT at a Mexican university. Data were collected through focus groups with 106 undergraduate students and analyzed qualitatively using thematic analysis. Themes that were identified include negative aspects such as barriers to learning and incomplete university experience, but also positive aspects such as convenience of online learning and technological affordances of online learning. Findings show that synchronous online classes helped the participants feel more connected during an emotionally fraught time. © 2022, IGI Global. All rights reserved.