Students’ perceptions of gained and lost value: a case study of a summer school that had to suddenly move online

Abstract

[EN] In 2020, the early Covid-19 lockdown induced the abrupt migration of traditionally presential learning activities to online domains, as it was the case of inter-institutional summer schools. The following research corresponds to a case study in which our organization had to reformulate, in less than three months, one of its traditional summer schools while trying to keep the original goals. Through qualitative and quantitative surveys, we aimed at identifying the impact of our reformulation by analyzing students’ perception of gained or lost value regarding four topics: a) online teaching, b) pre-recorded business cases, c) online social events, and d) technical solutions. With an emphasis in knowledge and learning experience, the analysis revealed that students’ background and expectations may lead to identity and performance tensions. Our results may be of interest to those institutions which are currently turning traditionally face-to-face events into hybrid models.