Background: Medical educators’ dissatisfaction may cause them to leave the practice of teaching, where
it is often hard to replace those who have left. In addition, medical teaching staff dissatisfaction may
indicate adverse quality for institution/ university organizations.
Objectives: To assess teaching staff satisfaction with online learning during the COVID pandemic at AlNahrain University /College of Medicine, Baghdad/Iraq.
Methodology: A cross-sectional study included a convenient sample of 50% of the teaching staff
participating in the online academic year 2020-2021. The faculty satisfaction questionnaire was taken
from the "Bolliger and Halupa" study, based on the validated Online Course Satisfaction Survey (OCSS)
questionnaire that contains four major categories: Interaction, instructor planning, institutional support,
and affordance.
Results: The study included 85 medical college teachers from all departments. The total satisfaction level
of participants in this study was 25.6%, which is considered low. The total satisfaction score given by the
participants was (0.98), the highest score of (1) was given to the items of affordance questions, and the
lowest was given for student–instructor interaction and course design and development (0.79, 0.89),
respectively.
Conclusion: The satisfaction of teaching staff with online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic was
generally low, especially regarding student–instructor interaction and course design and development.
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