Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Liberal Arts Education
An Empirical Study in Hong Kong
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22047743 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Qingyun Li (0000-0003-0274-0304, Teaching and Learning Centre, Lingnan University, Hong Kong 000852, China, corresponding author), Youliang Zhang (0000-0002-1171-1399, Beijing University of Technology, corresponding author), Zhongyang Zhang (0000-0002-9035-2880, Teaching and Learning Centre, Lingnan University, Hong Kong 000852, China) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 636 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Education Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2227-7102 • E-ISSN: 2227-7102 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/educsci13070636 |
| OpenAlex | W4381741792 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
The COVID-19 pandemic has instigated considerable unprecedented challenges to tertiary education in the aftermath of the mass shutdown of universities across Hong Kong since early 2020. Accordingly, shifting the traditional modalities to the online model has been opted for as the only reasonable alternative in the breakout period. It is, then, essential for educators to perceive the extent to which students’ learning attainments and experiences have been negatively impacted by these educational changes in the post-pandemic era. With the aim of examining the abrupt changes which the freshmen students’ e-learning experiences and their learning environment have undergone before and after the pandemic, the present quantitative study was conducted at a Liberal Arts Institution in Hong Kong, whose data was collected via the web-based questionnaire FYSLES, or “first-year student learning experience survey”. Quantitative analysis of responses indicated that students’ impressions and experience of liberal arts education, and students’ personalities and skills development, presented a U-shaped trend during the COVID-19 pandemic. The underlying rationale of this study is addressed to higher education policymakers to orient and add value to their safety measures, pertinent recommendations, as well as in context strategies that could be established in view of the pandemic’s detrimental effects
Geography · Higher education · Liberal arts education · Medical education · Pandemic · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Educational Environments and Student Outcomes · Law · Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 · Medicine · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |