Health Sciences Students’ Satisfaction with Quality of Online Distance Education
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51985/JBUMDC202220Keywords:
Online Education, Students` satisfaction, Medical educationAbstract
Objective: To assess the students' satisfaction with the online distance education at constituent institutes of a Medical
University of Karachi.
Study design and setting: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2021 March at JSMU to find out the experience across
all the institutes of the university during the covid pandemic.
Methodology: A sample size of 338 was calculated through Open Epi. Ver. 3.0, keeping a confidence interval of 95% with
a 5% chance of error from 357 students. Performa was specifically designed for this study, consisting of 3 parts that are
content, teacher, and technical review, which contains 16 questions.
Results: Python ver. 3+ was used for descriptive analysis of the responses. A total of 338 responses were received. The
lowest responses received in the teacher`s review were that most of the teachers inspired me to explore the subject further
(Neutral = 33.73%), the lectures were boring and uninteresting to attend (Neutral = 28.4%), in the content review the lowest
response. In the content review, the lowest response was for “your expectations regarding learning objectives were met”
(Neutral 31.07%) and in the overall review, the subscale lowest response was for technical issues like problems in audio
visual (Agree=33.4%), the learning environment was collaborative (Neutral=32.54%)and failure to meet the learning
objectives by the teachers.
Conclusion: The responses of the students show that they were overall satisfied with distance education during the pandemic.
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