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ReviewFrontiers in psychology2025

Exploring the impact of online education on student engagement in higher education in post-COVID-19: what students want to get?

Ziqi Deng, Zhi Yang

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Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ziqi DengSchool of Continuing Education, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Zhi YangGriffith Business School, Griffith University, Southport, QLD, Australia.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 has led to an unprecedented impact on traditional higher education classrooms. To ensure that students can continue receiving quality education, online learning has become a mainstream mode of instruction. Therefore, increasing student engagement become a key priority for teachers in online teaching contexts. Few reviews examine student engagement in education in the post-COVID-19 era. To address this gap, the present study aims to explore the key factors that influence student engagement in classroom settings in this context. We identified 30 papers related to our research focus from 498 articles retrieved from the Web of Science and Scopus databases, following the 2020 PRISMA framework. After reviewing related studies, this study examined the characteristics of student engagement about cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions. We also analyzed the impact of online education on student engagement. Our findings suggest that emotional, cognitive, and behavioral engagement are interconnected and influence one another. In addition, teachers' support for students' cognitive and emotional needs plays a vital role in fostering their behavioral engagement. This article can help educators better understand the definition of engagement and the factors that influence student engagement in the classroom.

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higher education studentsonline educationpost-COVID-19student engagementteaching and learning

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PMID40703719
PMCPMC12284282

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