Distance Education for Interior Design Students between Current Constraints and Future Visions

Abstract

Distance learning is one of the solutions that a lot of local and international universities started to use. At the shade of Corona virus COVID19 this trend became very clear. Distance learning has been used instead of closing universities that led to create non-stability as it was a sudden choice that a lot of universities were not ready for passing it appropriately.Distance learning is like any new initiative action facing some obstacles and challenges as it is a new experience applied for the first time on interior design and furniture students in Damietta university; here comes the problem of the research: what are the obstacles facing interior design and furniture students in distance learning and its affectivity? And what is the criteria achieving the quality of distance learning?Starting from this the research aims at recognizing strength and weakness points from students’ point of views and measuring the affectivity of distance learning in Theoretical and practical courses for students of furniture and interior design. In order to achieve these goals we used the Descriptive analytical method and the questionnaires have been used. The importance of the study is a feedback for improving educational process for students to achieve the aimed goals. Also some future trends were suggested to support and enhance the success of distance learning. The problem is not the presence of challenges but succeeding passing them and finding solutions for them in a gradual way combining between distance learning advantages and traditional education system to overcome different obstacles to be ready for emerging crisis.

Keywords

• distance education; interior design; education obstacles; corona pandemic; quality of education