Emergency Remote Teaching Application due to COVID-19 – A Case Study of the Department of Mathematics (School of Science) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze students’ experience of the implementation of emergency distance learning by their department due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The subjects of the study were University students of the department of Mathematics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens selected with a convenience sampling technique. A semi-structured questionnaire was used which was distributed online. A total of 391 student responses were collected for analysis. The study’s results indicate that students identify some positive characteristics in emergency remote teaching such as: access to recorded video lectures, efficient time management, and comfortable environment. On the other hand, they complain about network instability, lack of technical means and lack of communication in e-learning lessons. It seems that the majority of students preferred courses combining face to face and e-learning methods and evaluated as excellent the synchronous form of distance learning that uses teleconference platforms and digital boards.