Students’ Virtual Classroom Experiences in the Post-COVID-19 Era

This study examined students’ desirability for virtual classroom attendance, identified students’ perceived challenges in virtual classrooms, and established students’ preferred mode of instructional delivery in the post-COVID-19 era. These were to explore the experiences of Nigerian university students in receiving university education in the post-COVID-19 Era. Using the survey approach of quantitative design, the study covered 35,000 undergraduates and postgraduate students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. It drew 25 respondents randomly from the 13 faculties and two colleges in the university, making a total of 375 samples for the study. A 25-item electronic Google survey titled ‘Post COVID-19 University Education’ (PCUE) was designed and circulated via various students’ platforms on social media (WhatsApp and Telegram) to elicit responses. The data collated were analysed and presented descriptively. The study found that university students: do not attend virtual classrooms regularly, encounter challenges that restrain them from participating in virtual classes, and prefer the hybrid mode of instructional delivery. It was, therefore, suggested that the hybrid mode of instructional delivery should be further encouraged among university teachers.