Virtual education and student satisfaction in Israel University of Technology's virtual courses

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic changed educational processes worldwide to a fully virtual mode. Many educational institutions were not prepared for this change including Israel University of Technology. Around the world, many educational institutions including UISRAEL changed their distance learning format from blended learning to fully online education, creating a challenge for students and teachers. In this sense, the institution is implementing ICT as a teaching-learning resource as part of its methodology. In this research it was determined what kind of relationship exists between virtual education and student satisfaction in virtual engineering courses at UISRAEL. For the development of the research, students were considered to voluntarily respond to a survey designed to study the variables mentioned. To evaluate the results, the variables were operationalised according to dimensions, indicators, items, measurement scales and ranges. The results obtained generally indicate a high valuation of the variables virtual education and student satisfaction at UISRAEL.