Exploring Emergency Remote Learning Experience of Chinese International Students During COVID-19

• In Event: Student Experiences During COVID-19: Remote Learning, Inequity, and Sense of Belonging

Abstract

Through the "small narratives" of seven students, this qualitative study explores the emergency remote learning experience of Chinese international students who studied in different time zones during the pandemic. Emerging stressors from the pandemic context, intertwined with traditional stressors in international education, have exacerbated detrimental impacts on their different dimension of wellbeing. However, new opportunities also emerge for online learning. Chinese international students developed various survival tactics to cope with stressors by balancing, constructing, and negotiating the options and resources they recognized as available and suitable. This study points to implications for a reimagination of international education in the post-pandemic era based on care-oriented human-centered pedagogy, for actions by the host institutions, and for community resilience of marginalized groups.

Author

• Hui Huang, University of California - Los Angeles
  Presenting Author