Abstract
Saudi universities have put immense efforts in preparing and implementing home teaching as an alternative type of traditional teaching during the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis. The present study aims to focus on outcome of applying Emergency Remote Teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic at Saudi Higher Education. A quantitative research design was used to evaluate the students' perspectives in terms of preparation, implementation, and assessment. A total of 97 students were recruited from Prince Sattam bin Abdul-Aziz University. A self-administered questionnaire, comprising of two parts was provided to the students. The questionnaire's first part collected demographic details of the participants; whereas, second part was distributed into 34 items including preparation (7 items), implementation (8 items), and assessment (7 items), barriers to teaching practices during COVID-19 including 12 items. The results showed that majority of the participant students positively responded towards the application of emergency remote teaching during COVID-19 (3.86 +/- 1.13). Considering the dimensions, preparation (3.98 +/- 1.12), implementation (3.77 +/- 1.17), and assessment (3.19 +/- 1.30), majority of the students gave positive response on majority of the items. Moreover, there was no significant difference in the perspectives about applying emergency remote teaching during COVID-19 between both the genders. The study concluded that most of the students favored emergency remote teaching as it facilitated self-learning.