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As a pandemic reached Nebraska, and teaching and learning went off-campus, an opportunity presented itself.
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“We decided to see how this was going for everybody,” said Andrew Robertson, institutional research analyst II, in the Office of Institutional Research. “We offer a lot of online programs. But we’d never done an entire student body working remotely.”
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It was, he said, “An unplanned but massive field test for distance learning.”
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And it was the perfect circumstance for a study, “Effects of remote learning on educational outcomes during COVID-19 quarantine<\/a>.”
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The initial survey, which included 1,045 respondents, including 708 students, is the first step in a larger series of surveys and research publications to improve quality of remote learning at UNMC.
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So what did they find?
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“Most of the instructors and students experienced only a small decline in educational quality, or otherwise completely unchanged,” Robertson reported.
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“There were a lot of positive perceptions among faculty and staff,” he said. “Staff responded very positively to remote working.”
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It wasn’t perfect, of course. Among students, 63 percent responded that they had difficulty focusing or paying attention during remote learning instruction or activities. And 49 percent, or about half, had a personal preference for face-to-face learning.
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“One of the things we saw,” Robertson said, “was that students consistently reported that they preferred not necessarily a return to the classroom, but a return to campus spaces. They wanted to visit and study with other students.
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“Now maybe not the same interest in getting back to lectures.”
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But instructors responded that 80 percent of students have adapted reasonably well to extremely well to remote learning.
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And there was a strong response that whatever “normal” will be, going forward, some elements of this past spring’s distance-learning model should be kept.
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In addition to specific questions to answer, the survey allowed respondents room for free-form response.
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“Those were a lot of fun to read,” Robertson said.
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Many said that distance learning allowed them to spend more time with families, and pets. And, seeing their instructors in their “home setting” — including with pets — led to a more personal connection.
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Faculty seemed more accessible.
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Even though learning was distant, “They felt there was more opportunity for direct student-teacher interaction,” Robertson said.
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See a summary of survey responses<\/a>.<\/p>\ngsMVMCYcRvW<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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