Higher education students' experiences and opinion about distance learning during the Covid‐19 pandemic.
Background: The Covid‐19 pandemic has created significant challenges for the global higher education community. Understanding of students' perception has important implications for the quality of the learning process, as it affects students' engagement in learning, helps educators rethink the princi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 37; no. 6; pp. 1682 - 1694 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2021
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