The Covid-19 pandemic forced higher education institutions around the world to shut down and students to receive online education from home. This presentation reports on the findings of a study that explored undergraduate students’ and teachers’ experiences of online education during the pandemic in the context of higher education in Kenya and Nepal.  Adopting the Building Equitable Learning Environments (BELE) framework and employing a qualitative research design, the study used semi-structured interviews to explore the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on equitable access to education. The results show that students and teachers, particularly from rural settings, faced several challenges and experienced some new opportunities that will be discussed in this presentation.

Presenters

Agnes Kukulska-Hulme is Professor of Learning Technology and Communication in the Institute of Educational Technology, where she leads the Future Learning Research and Innovation Programme and the Innovating Pedagogy series of reports. Her interests include mobile language learning and mobile technology use in low-income countries and among disadvantaged learners and communities.

Fereshte Goshtasbpour

Fereshte Goshtasbpour is a lecturer in Online Teaching at the Institute of Educational Technology. Her research focuses on learning in open and scaled online educational and professional contexts. More recently, she has been working on projects  that examine scaled online teaching in low-resource contexts.

Saraswati Dawadi is currently a research associate at the Open university at the Institute of Educational Technology. Her research focuses on equity, diversity and inclusion in education, role of technology in promoting or reducing educational marginalization and girls’ empowerment.

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