Online teaching in universities during the Covid-19 epidemic: A study of the situation, effectiveness and countermeasures

Abstract This paper studies the online teaching practices carried out in universities during the Covid-19 epidemic. This study, through interviews, questionnaires, and model construction, finds: 1) the number of learning sessions designed by teachers, teaching methods, problems encountered in conducting online teaching, class interactions are all significantly related to teaching effectiveness and support attitude; 2) as to the students, the gender, number of class platforms adopted, number of courses participation, difficulties encountered in online learning and preferred learning styles are all significantly related to course quality, learning effectiveness and support attitude.