Distributed Mode to Education in Morocco: Explorating Students’ Experience of Distance Learning During Covid19

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10.2991/978-2-38476-036-7_23How to use a DOI?

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distributed approach; quality assurance; ICT integration; learner autonomy; active digital citizenship

Abstract

Like most countries, COVID19 pandemic lockdown forced Morocco to resort to distance learning to ensure the continuity of instruction. Being a novel experience in Morocco, it posed a wide range of difficulties and faced various criticisms. This was mainly attributed to lack of infrastructure, high internet access cost, and lack of or inadequate ICT teacher training (Bachiri and Sehli 2020). Nevertheless, this paper argues that distance learning can be the future mode of education if adopted within a distributed approach. Adopting a mixed-method approach, the study surveyed 444 students from seven Moroccan universities, and interviewed a focus group of 54 students from Mohammed V University in Rabat online. The administered questionnaire aimed at investigating learners’ perception of the online learning experience as well as its perceived influence of the enhancement of their autonomy related constructs as defined by Bradley et al. 2017. Data analysis included the use of descriptive and inferential statistics along with interpretive content analysis. The findings reveal that distance learning can be an asset to make strides towards learner’s autonomy enhancement, quality assurance, and ICT integration if properly adopted as a hybrid mode. This has multi-leveled policy and pedagogically related implications for the implementation of distance learning and enhancement of learners’ individual agency, and youth’s active citizenship.

Research Contribution: This study evaluates online learning in Morocco during Covid19. It highlights the potential gains it brought about to learners’ agency and the avenues it opened for ICT integration and active digital citizenship development. The results are informative for educators and policy makers because they offer new perspectives for quality assurance which is conceptually framed within a distributed approach to education.

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TI  - Distributed Mode to Education in Morocco: Explorating Students’ Experience of Distance Learning During Covid19
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