Challenges of E-learning in Shenyang Jianzhu University

Abstract

The purpose of the study explores the challenges of online education from three aspects, include: lecturers, students, and the external environment. This paper conducts through an online questionnaire survey of 389 faculty and students from eight colleges of Shenyang Jianzhu University based on the Likert scale to measure the degree of identification between lecturers and students in online learning challenges during the pandemic, identified the most important challenges faced by lecturers, students, and the external environment through quantitative analysis, and gave recommendations for various problems. The study was conducted from May 2022 to November 2022, and the quantitative results are as follows:1) The biggest challenge for lecturers is the cognitive overload caused by e-education, with the Degree of approval index (DAI); 2) and the highest approval index (HAI) for students' lack of self-directed learning ability and self-control; 3) From an environmental point of view, network stability issues plague all respondents (lecturers, students) and are the most urgent problem to solve. As for the further data analysis, we found the factors of age and self-control ability were also influence on cognitive load.