The Evaluation Case Study of Online Course During Pandemic Period in Mongolia

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the quality of online courses during the COVID-19 pandemic at Mongolian University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, highlighting challenges, methods used, and insights gained from a structure-oriented evaluation model.

Contribution

It presents a case study of online course evaluation during the pandemic, using a structure-oriented model to assess e-learning quality in a context lacking a dedicated LMS.

Findings

Identified challenges faced by professors and students in online teaching.

Showed the effectiveness of using multiple platforms for online education.

Provided insights into strengths and weaknesses of the online learning process.

Abstract

This paper describes a test and case study of self-evaluation of online courses during the pandemic time. Due to the Covid-19, the whole world needs to sit on lockdown in different periods. Many things need to be done in all kinds of business including the education sector of countries. To sustain the education development teaching methods had to switch from traditional face-to-face teaching to online courses. The government made decisions in a short time and educational institutions had no time to prepare the materials for the online teaching. All courses of the Mongolian University of Pharmaceutical Sciences switched to online lessons. Challenges were raised before professors and tutors during online teaching. Our university did not have a specific learning management system for online teaching and e-learning. Therefore professors used different platforms for their online teaching such as Zoom, Microsoft teams for instance. Moreover, different social networking platforms played an active role in communication between students and professors. The situation is very difficult for professors and students. To measure the quality of online courses and to figure out the positive and weak points of online teaching we need an evaluation of e-learning. The focus of this paper is to share the evaluation process of e-learning based on a structure-oriented evaluation model.