The education users’ opinion about the E-learning in Covid-19 pandemic in the world: a review study

Covid-19 pandemic led to quite a lot of changes in the people’s life style and governments’ policies during 2020. Education aspect was not an exception; due to the need to social distancing and breaking the chain of transmission, E-learning became more common. The present study aimed at determining the opinion of education users about E-learning during Covid-19 outbreak. To accomplish this review study, all the papers (both in Persian and English) related to E-learning in Covid-19 pandemic from January to December 2020 were searched using the following keywords (both in Persian and English): covid-19, electronic education, E-learning, distance learning, modern education, student, and university. The search was done in the following databases: PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Google scholar and Science Direct. In this study, 200 relevant papers were found. After omitting the repeated cases, the eligible papers were extracted and analyzed. The findings of this study revealed that education users were not satisfied with E-learning due to many obstacles and preferred conventional classrooms. However, most of the studies highlighted the use of virtual education and acknowledged it as an appropriate method of education in these days. Lack of adequate infrastructures and educational equipment led to challenges for learners and teachers. Therefore, it is recommended to eliminate these shortcomings so that this type of education can be even used after controlling Covid-19. All in all, new ways of education (distance learning and virtual teaching) have had great contributions in achieving the educational goals.