Authors:
Sangeeta Tripathi, Ahlam Al -Zubaidi 

Addresses:
Department of Mass Communication, University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman. sangeetakapil.234@gmail.com, ahlamz.sal@cas.edu.om

Abstract:

In this research article, we foregrounded the coronavirus outbreaks and the Oman government’s efforts to combat the Novel Corona outbreak in the Sultanate. The sudden change from face-to-face to online learning assisted academic institutions in remaining open and working steadily on improving the quality of teaching and learning as it recovered from two long years of the critical period of the pandemic. However, it brought lots of challenges to the academic world as well. It has increased psychological pressure to make new educational strategies and assessment plan that suits the new earning. In such circumstances, to achieve high-quality learning outcomes, the motivation and Engagement of the students are pre-requisite that give us a reason to pursue this study in the Omani context. The research article aims to explore the creative and flexible thinking of academics to motivate and engage students in attaining essential core course learning objectives and challenges of online learning to maintain quality education. It also examines assessment options and technical factors in the success of online learning. A qualitative method has been applied. The scheduled questionnaire has been devised for the survey. The 360 samples have been collected from Dhofar region academic institutions. IBM (International Business Machines), SPSS*Statistics (Statistical Package for Social Sciences), version 25, has been used to analyze the data. The findings help understand the need for observation, which requires changes in student motivation directly related to online learning.

Keywords: Online Learning; Students; Academicians; Course Content; Oman; Covid-19; Coronavirus Pandemic; Perception, Pedagogy; Motivation and Engagement.

Received on: 07/11/2022, Revised on: 28/12/2022, Accepted on: 01/02/2023, Published on: 04/03/2023

FMDB Transactions on Sustainable Techno Learning, 2023 Vol. 1 No. 1, Pages: 1-10

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