Exploring Online College Students’ Satisfaction with Distance Education During the COVID-19

Because of the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic, most universities have successively launched emergency distance education. Consequently, this special project report will focus on the university students’ level of satisfaction with distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is because the level of satisfaction among college students with online distance teaching and learning during the pandemic is likely to affect these students’ learning outcomes and academic performance. Therefore, this special project report aims to explore the college students’ satisfaction level with distance education due to COVID-19 and draw implications from the results. Firstly, it reviews several empirical studies and relevant theoretical discussions concerning students’ satisfaction with online distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Secondly, it reviews and analyzes the factors that influence students’ satisfaction with online distance education. Then, based on the review of the research results and views of previous scholars, this project will draw some implications on online distance learning. At the end of this paper, the limitations of this research will be described.