Learning during COVID-19: (Too) isolated yet successful
In a world changed by the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 universities had to completely rethink and immediately transform their teaching to a fully online setting. As a result, students had to learn from home and organize their learning by themselves. In a natural experiment, data about learning process...
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| description | In a world changed by the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 universities had to completely rethink and immediately transform their teaching to a fully online setting. As a result, students had to learn from home and organize their learning by themselves. In a natural experiment, data about learning processes indicate that students learned more engaged and achieved higher learning success in this new situation compared to the traditional learning process. However, the students experienced a three-fold isolation: (1) physical isolation, (2) social isolation, and (3) learning isolation, which resulted in a stressful learning experience. In conclusion, these affective challenges indicate that this exceptional learning setting should not be normalized, even though positive outcomes were achieved during COVID-19. Beyond the situation in the pandemic, it can be deduced that students who learn at a distance need additional support to not (only) learn in isolation. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-dcaf246ca9974d8fbad4885077ac740b2025-08-20T02:26:19ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Education2504-284X2025-05-011010.3389/feduc.2025.15492021549202Learning during COVID-19: (Too) isolated yet successfulFlorian Berens0Florian Berens1Florian Berens2Sebastian Hobert3Sebastian Hobert4Center of Methods in the Social Sciences, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, GermanyCampus Institute Data Science, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, GermanyHector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Tübingen, GermanyCampus Institute Data Science, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, GermanyChair of Application Systems and E-Business, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, GermanyIn a world changed by the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 universities had to completely rethink and immediately transform their teaching to a fully online setting. As a result, students had to learn from home and organize their learning by themselves. In a natural experiment, data about learning processes indicate that students learned more engaged and achieved higher learning success in this new situation compared to the traditional learning process. However, the students experienced a three-fold isolation: (1) physical isolation, (2) social isolation, and (3) learning isolation, which resulted in a stressful learning experience. In conclusion, these affective challenges indicate that this exceptional learning setting should not be normalized, even though positive outcomes were achieved during COVID-19. Beyond the situation in the pandemic, it can be deduced that students who learn at a distance need additional support to not (only) learn in isolation.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2025.1549202/fullCOVID-19 pandemicdistance educationonline learningemergency remote teachinglearning analyticsnatural experiment |
| spellingShingle | Florian Berens Florian Berens Florian Berens Sebastian Hobert Sebastian Hobert Learning during COVID-19: (Too) isolated yet successful Frontiers in Education COVID-19 pandemic distance education online learning emergency remote teaching learning analytics natural experiment |
| title | Learning during COVID-19: (Too) isolated yet successful |
| title_full | Learning during COVID-19: (Too) isolated yet successful |
| title_fullStr | Learning during COVID-19: (Too) isolated yet successful |
| title_full_unstemmed | Learning during COVID-19: (Too) isolated yet successful |
| title_short | Learning during COVID-19: (Too) isolated yet successful |
| title_sort | learning during covid 19 too isolated yet successful |
| topic | COVID-19 pandemic distance education online learning emergency remote teaching learning analytics natural experiment |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2025.1549202/full |
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