University Students Going Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Since March 2020, with the first outbreak of COVID-19, university education in Greece shifted to online teaching. Taking into account the principles of effective online teaching and with a view of making course content consistent, relevant, and meaningful to students, the authors of this chapter decided to transform a compulsory course of the Department of English Language and Literature into a blended course with elements of a remote flipped classroom. This chapter aims to present the decisions taken for the adjustment of the course and to present university students' evaluation of this course focusing their opinions of the revised course structure and challenges they faced while completing the course. The results revealed that although student response to fully online distance learning was not overwhelmingly positive, their response towards the flipped classroom model was. This points to the great potential the flipped classroom model can have for introducing pedagogies that combine distance learning with face-to-face teaching.