Journal
EDUCATION SCIENCES
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/educsci10110313
Keywords
readiness; digital media; university students
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The year 2020 brought many changes to our everyday life but also our education system. Universities needed to change their teaching practices due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Words like digital media, online teaching and online learning were present in all of the discussions. The main issues here were the technical infrastructure of students and universities all over the world. However, to have good technical infrastructure does not mean that everybody is also ready to use it. Thus, the present study focused on the issue of university students' readiness for online learning. The quantitative research goal was to evaluate German university students' readiness for using digital media and online learning in their tertiary education and compare them with students from the United States. Overall, 72 students from the researchers' university in Germany and 176 students from multiple universities in the United States completed the Student Readiness of Online Learning (SROL) questionnaire. Results show substantial differences between the two groups of students, with U.S. students being more ready for online learning. The results and limitations were discussed, and practical implications and further ideas were provided.
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