The limited research on university students' experiences in virtual classrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted physical classes and forced educational institutions to blindly switch from

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 8 representative gaps

• Effect of Virtual Learning on the Academic Achievement of Basic Science Students in Yenagoa Local Government Area (2026) · doi

  1. Educational institutions and teachers should adopt the use of virtual learning as an alternative when physical lessons are not possible rather than halting the while educational process like during floods 2. Government and educational stakeholders should create training opportunities for teachers to effectively make use of virtual platforms to carry out Instruction 3. Government and other stakeholders should provide resources to support digital or virtual learning as when needed, including devices, internet access, and software. 4. Teachers and educational institutions should combine virtual learning with traditional instruction to leverage the strengths of both approaches. 5. Alternative approaches for virtual learning should be explored to enhance students' achievement.

  Keywords: virtual educational learning teachers institutions alternative government stakeholders instruction approaches adopt physical lessons possible rather
• <b>Teachers’ assessment of challenges and prospect of online classes for teaching secondary school students in Ilorin Metropolis</b><b></b> (2026) · doi

  Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that; ii. i. All the stakeholders in educational sector (parents, teachers, school administrators, students, etc) should see the coronavirus pandemic as an eye opener to make them push and be in line with the growing technology by organizing online classes for students so as to enable them overcome some of these challenges. School administrators should make the teaching and learning of computer compulsory for all students so as to reduce digital divide and sponsors should find ways or providing virtual learning tools as well as all the needed facilities and support for the student to overcome these challenges should this situation present itself again and learners should cultivate the habit of learning with the growing and changing world as change is inevitable in life and there may be other situations that would also require online classes. https://akasa.com.ng Vol. 4 Issue 3, 2026 Copyright © 2026 AKASA All Rights Reserved

  Keywords: students learning school administrators make them growing online classes overcome challenges akasa based recommended stakeholders
• Exploring the critical challenges and factors influencing the E-learning system usage during COVID-19 pandemic (2020) · doi

  There is lack of agreement about the critical challenges and factors that shape the successful usage of e-learning system during COVID-19 pandemic; hence, a clear gap has been identified in the knowledge on the critical challenges and factors of e-learning usage during this pandemic.

  Keywords: critical challenges factors usage learning pandemic there lack agreement shape successful system covid hence clear
• Higher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses and Challenges (2022) · doi

  While stakeholders responded quickly during the outbreak, providing financial and material assistance, developing online learning, and facilitating international student mobility, the study finds that these measures are insufficient when compared to those in other sectors, and higher education stakeholders’ responses to COVID-19 have been fragmented, uncoordinated, and fraught with conflict and ambivalence.

  Keywords: stakeholders responded quickly outbreak providing financial material assistance developing online learning facilitating international student mobility
• Distance Learning: Rethinking learning design in higher education during the Covid-19 pandemic (2022) · doi

  The first part of the paper considers a rethinking of educational planning at the time of Covid-19, while the second and final part analyses student perceptions (using the questionnaire’s open questions) of their Distance Learning experience in the initial phases of the pandemic scenario.

  Keywords: part first considers rethinking educational planning time covid second final analyses student perceptions using questionnaire
• A Framework for Transitioning to Virtual Classes During Life-Threatening Pandemics Like COVID-19 (2022) · doi

  The limited research on university students' experiences in virtual classrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted physical classes and forced educational institutions to blindly switch from physical classes to virtual classes, served as the inspiration for this study.

  Keywords: classes virtual physical limited university students experiences classrooms covid pandemic disrupted forced educational institutions blindly
• CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONLINE LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN KENYA (2023) · doi

  The covid 19 pandemic caused a disruption in the education system in Kenya and the whole world, instutions had to get a way of continuing with the learning process without involving the learners physically, online learning which had not been explored in the previous years was now the only option remaining for the universities in Kenya and around the world.

  Keywords: kenya world learning covid pandemic caused disruption education system whole instutions continuing process without involving
• E-Learning Fatigue and the Cognitive, Educational, and Emotional Impacts on Communication Sciences and Disorders Students During COVID-19 (2022) · doi

  Future investigations may examine the long-term effects of the pandemic on students and their clinical skills, groups most susceptible to the negative impacts of e-learning, and ways to mitigate these effects to improve students' educational experiences and emotional well-being.

  Keywords: effects students future investigations examine long term pandemic clinical skills groups susceptible negative impacts learning