The emotions of upper secondary level students in a virtual learning environment

Abstract

In recent years and derived from the pandemic that is experienced today, online education has been advancing by leaps and bounds. It has demanded that educational actors face and adapt to a series of changes that have been generated by the implementation of digital environments in the teaching-learning process. It is in this scenario where the objective is to identify the students’ emotions from High school with respect to their learning in a virtual environment. They experience a series of emotions that according to Lin, Su, Chao, Hsieh and Tsa, (2016) can generate the ideal environment to develop more successful learning processes through positive emotions. To achieve this objective, a quantitative investigation was developed, and a questionnaire with a Likert scale was designed and applied to a sample from the Enrique Cabrera Barroso Regional High School. This instrument revealed the emotions they experience in a virtual learning environment during their learning process and their interaction among the actors. Considering the results, we find that students experience a series of internal emotions that are decisive for adapting to a virtual environment.