How do university students feel about online learning?
- Lucy Fifield
- May 24, 2021
- 1 min read
[Photography by Lucy Fifield]
Most university students have been working online with no face to face teaching since Christmas. The government announced its new plans with students returning on the 17th of May, but many students have remained to study online.
Many have considered a return in person during May is pointless as most universities finish a week or two later. Most students have not even met their lecturers or classmates, and many have felt disappointed with the amount of money they spent on online learning, and many are campaigning to get their money back.
Students have missed out on a university life with freshers and meeting new people, and others have postponed to wait another year or have even dropped out. Other students have struggled with their mental health and have found it difficult to access help with being isolated during various lockdowns.
Many universities are staying online into the autumn term of the next academic year, but many are to blend online teaching and face to face. Students have called plans for online unacceptable if they are paying £9,250 for Zoom or Microsoft Teams.
The University of Liverpool is one of the universities that want face-to-face teaching as much as possible, but expects a blend of online and face to face in autumn.
Universities are having to plan for the next academic year without knowing what will happen.
A few students from various universities around the UK spoke about their experience from the last few months, and how online teaching affected their education.
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