ASSESSMENT OF DISTANCE LEARNING FOR ONLINE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE STUDENTS DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS

Abstract

To ensure that educational knowledge is well delivered, education strategies have been changed to be online rather than in the field due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate online education systems during a pandemic in Jordan. Electronic forms were distributed via
students' emails to 559 students at the Faculty of Agriculture, Jerash University to study readiness, behavior, and obstacles of distance education through the students' impressions. A total of 1073 online surveys were analyzed using program SAS (2012) to determine the effects of gender, age of students, specialization, and academic year on distance education. The results of the study showed a significant difference between total scores for readiness, behavior, and obstacles of distance education. The age of the students also had a significant effect on distance education in general and within the status of
readiness, behavior, and distance education obstacles. Where it was found that the higher the student's age by one year from the average age, the higher his general acceptance, readiness, and behavior towards distance education with percentages (0.12±0.06), (0.17±0.06), and (0.40±0.14)% respectively,
while obstacles decreased by (0.22±0.004)%. The study concluded that age students of above (27.18±0.25) years played a positive role during the COVID-19 crisis in distance education.