University students' trend towards using e-learning During crises: the Corona pandemic as a model

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Higher Technological Institute of Media

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The current study sought to reveal the university students ’trend towards using e-learning during crises: the COVID-19pandemic is a model, based on the descriptive approach, and the questionnaire was applied as a tool to collect data electronically on a sample of (341) Egyptian university students, and the study reached a set of results, the most important of which are following: The university students of the study sample have a clear trend towards the use of e-learning during crises, even if its levels are many, but they want to do the learning, and this was confirmed by the test of the validity of the first hypothesis, where a statistically significant difference was found between the scores of the students in the study sample, Most of the students in the study sample use new media tools in one way or another in e-learning to a high or medium degree, It became clear that "WhatsApp" was the most new media application from which students benefited from the study sample in e-learning, and The "high" level of students in the study sample revealed the preference of traditional education over e-learning, and that there is a negative high trend towards the use of e-learning for them.

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