Empirical Study of Factors on Teachers’ Online Teaching Satisfaction in Higher Education Institutions

Abstract

Online teaching is the main teaching method during the COVID-19 period, and the evaluation and analysis of teachers' teaching satisfaction and the influencing factors are important for the subsequent development of teaching and improvement of methods. In this paper, a survey and research work was conducted with a sample of university teachers who participated in online teaching in China during the COVID-19 period. Firstly, six relevant influencing factors were assumed to be established, and a questionnaire containing 31 questions was set up and conducted according to the assumptions; then, principal component factor analysis was conducted based on the data of the questionnaire to derive the comprehensive factors affecting the satisfaction of online teaching of college teachers; finally, reliability analysis, validity analysis and correlation analysis were conducted on the comprehensive factors. The results show that there is a significant positive correlation between the five comprehensive factors of school policy support, platform, teaching effectiveness, course resources and coursework and online teaching satisfaction of college teachers. The article summarizes and analyzes the research results and puts forward relevant suggestions to provide new ideas for effective online teaching in the post-epidemic era.