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Analysis of Variables that Influence University Student’s Perception About Virtual Education Adopted Due to COVID-19

Abstract:

The changes in higher education due to the COVID-19 pandemic have forced the maintenance of a virtual education system, transforming face-to-face classes into online classes through different platforms available for this purpose. However, these classes, which can be synchronous or asynchronous, are new to many students, many universities, and several professors, so there is little information about their adaptation and which variables can affect students’ better acceptance of this system. This study seeks to determine how the students’ perception of the new educational system is altered by the access to technological tools to attend classes and, at the same time, how the adaptation of the university and professors to the new system influences said student perception. This study investigated the effects of these variables on students’ perception by utilizing a questionnaire that obtained 617 complete responses, and the obtained data were analyzed using the linear regression model. The results found show that the student’s perception of the new system improves as the capacity of the university and professors to adapt to the recent education model increases, and it also improves when students have access to technological tools. Furthermore, the variable of adaptation of the university and professors shows a greater incidence in improving student perception. These results lead to the search to implement strategies that will allow the capacity of these two variables to increase and achieve a better acceptance of the new system.