Investigation and Analysis of Online Teaching in Higher Vocational Colleges during the COVID-19 Epidemic

Abstract

Affected by the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, responding to the call of “Ensuring learning undisrupted when classes are disrupted” by the Ministry of Education, schools at all levels and types in China had launched online teaching. This paper takes 210 teachers and 3952 students in a local higher vocational college in Anhui Province as the research objects, and investigates from two perspectives of online teaching and learning. The results show that there were some problems in online teaching, such as network jam, interference in home learning and lack of learning monitoring, however, timely online training, abundant online resources, convenient live broadcast tools and stable teaching platform had ensured the orderly development of the online teaching. Teachers and students were highly satisfied with online teaching. In the post-epidemic era, online teaching will be integrated with offline teaching, which become “normalized”. Therefore, this research proposes that it is necessary to make more in-depth exploration and efforts in strengthening network technology support and guarantee, improving teachers' and students' information literacy, enhancing teachers' informatization resources construction ability and teaching design ability, and so on.