Online Engagement and Satisfaction of Undergraduate Engineering Students During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the teaching-learning-evaluation process with the transition of universities to emergency remote education. As universities have moved to a new way of learning, student engagement and satisfaction became an evolving concern among academics. The aim of study was to explore the student engagement and satisfaction with online learning experiences in engineering courses in a hybrid approach during the pandemic. A total of 135 undergraduate students from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, responded to the online survey based on two previously developed surveys. According to the results, the online student engagement and satisfaction were at a medium level. Female student engagement was higher than male student engagement, and the 4th year students had higher satisfaction scores with online learning. The study found that student engagement was significantly correlated with satisfaction in online learning experiences. The results have implications for educational theory and practice in creating effective blended learning environments and for future research.