Multifaceted Challenges and Opportunities: Chinese Exchange Students’ Experiences in the U.S. Transnational Online Learning Ecology (Poster 5)

• In Event: Saturday Poster Session 1:15 pm
  In Poster Session: Online Teaching and Learning SIG Poster Session

Abstract

Transnational distance education has become an emerging trend in promoting academic collaboration and exchange during and after the pandemic. Guided by the learning ecology framework, concurrent mixed methods research was conducted to understand Chinese exchange students’ experiences and perceptions of a cross-cultural online learning environment in the United States. We distributed an online survey and applied multiple regression and thematic analysis to analyze quantitative and qualitative data. The merging of both types of data analysis indicated: the confirmation of the importance of English learning resources, the transformation of online learning practices, the insufficiency of students-to-instructors interaction, discordance of technological self-efficacy and the disadvantages of technology-assisted instruction, and discordance between the usefulness and difficulties of learning activities and assessments.

Authors

• Xinyue Ren, Old Dominion University

• Yi Zhou, Guangxi University