Digital education appraisal and quality perception by students, teachers and trainers at the partner Higher Education Institutions (HEI) during the COVID-19 crisis

Abstract

This research forms part of the Erasmus+ project Digital Education for Crisis Situations: Times when there is no alternative (DECriS). The project is focused on innovative digital practices implemented in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS), their relationship to Digital Education (DE) in general, and the adoption of Open Education Resources (OER) in any learning situation, but especially in crisis situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The present report belongs to the Project’s Intellectual Output 2: “Digital Education appraisal and quality perception by students, teachers and trainers at the partner HEI during the COVID-19 crisis”. The aim of this output is to gain insights into the students’ and teachers’ attitudes towards DE and educational resources, in general, and towards canonical OER, in particular, mainly during the COVID-19 crisis and in contrast with their pre-pandemic experiences. A total of 39 interviews with teachers and 10 focus groups with students were conducted in the LIS centres of the five institutions that are project partners. For each partner, a report is presented with the results of the analysis of the teachers’ and students’ transcripts separately, structured in seven blocks: Context, attitudes and expectations; Adaptations; Problems; Advantages; Lessons learned; Good Practices; and Improvements.