Student challenges and experiences following the rapid shift to online distance learning in higher education

To better mitigate the drastic consequences of COVID-19 initiatives for university teaching, it is important to understand how students experience the drastic shift to online distance learning, which began with the campus closures on 13 March 2020. Based on an early survey among KU's Faculty of Health Sciences 7000+ students, This project will collect longitudinal data from Danish students across universities and vocational colleges during April, May and June 2020. This data will be used to uncover the students' experiences of distance learning during the corona crisis, with special focus on the many mutual associated challenges related to learning, technology and mental well-being that we need to understand in order to adapt and improve distance learning. The goal is to increase the institutions' capacity to deal with current and future lockdowns in a way that reduces and alleviates the many study-related, psychosocial and technical challenges that students face when the campus closes