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Explore Chinese People's Nostalgia for Online Learning in the Post-epidemic Era in 2023

Rui XueUniversity of Nottingham Ningbo China*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

The theme of this paper is to explore that in 2023, when the epidemic and online learning symbolize the end, people begin to miss the period of online learning, the causes of this phenomenon, and the specific content of nostalgia. In the previous research, scholars discussed the three aspects, students, teachers, and online courses, which profoundly demonstrated the influence of students' self-control, teachers' mastery of the interaction with students and network equipment, and the content of online courses on students' efficiency and experience. In addition, it also shows whether online learning brings helpful or awful aspects to students and families. Undoubtedly, it improves the original approaches to learning and brings people a memorable and profound memory. Therefore, based on the previous articles, this paper is committed to studying why, in 2023, Chinese students begin to miss the online learning and the specific content of the miss. This paper adopts qualitative analysis. First, 20 related posts are selected from Weibo according to keywords and then artificially classified and analyzed. Then, 10 participants who experienced online learning during the epidemic were selected and interviewed to draw conclusions. The experimental study found that most participants still maintained a positive attitude toward online learning and miss it. In addition, this paper also puts forward that with the trend of people missing online learning, the form of classes should also be reformed to benefit different kinds of people's needs and start to move closer to the combination of online learning and offline learning.

Keywords: Online Learning; Online Course; Chinese; COVID-19
Published: April 19, 2024
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/29/20230790
Volume: CHR Vol.29
pp. 265-271
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