Technologic, Academic, and Psychological Demands in University Students during COVID-19 Pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.37226/rcp.v4i2.4915Keywords:
COVID-19, higher education, online courses, changes in educational modalities, students, universityAbstract
This research examined the technologic, academic, and psychological demands, experimented by a sample of 167 active university students from 17 institutions of higher education in Puerto Rico during may-june of 2020 during the pandemic of COVID-19. The sample was composed mainly by women (81.4%) with ages between 18 to 61 (M = 30.36, DE = 11.46). A cross-sectional non-experimental exploratory-descriptive design was implemented. The principal results show the problems related to stressors for assignments overload, bad implementation of online courses, lack of orientation from their universities, poor flexibility from their professors, among others. These results open the way to study the sudden changes of educational modalities (face-to-face to online) and their impact in students.
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