Learning Sustainability through Digital/Social Media (DSM) and its Impact on Students in Qatar

Abstract

During COVID-19 pandemic, schools worldwide were compelled to embrace remote classrooms, relying more heavily on Digital and Social Media (DSM) to deliver lessons. This paper suggests a website as a digital solution, and it provides an insight from teachers and students’ perceptions on utilizing it by investigating the impacts of using the website in one of Qatar preparatory schools. A qualitative approach is followed to analyze the obtained data from interviews via qualitative coding technique.  The results show that students were increasingly motivated and interested in topics related to sustainability and environmental issues pertinent to the case of Qatar after posting on the website. Furthermore, findings from teachers’ perspectives reveal that the ease of sharing, commenting, and documenting students’ reflections made them more prone to use the website. The study concludes with a set of recommendations to improve DSM learning in Qatar.