en تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <ul> <li style="text-align:justify; margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Source Sans Pro;"><span style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span><span lang="EN-US">With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, universities were obliged to shift from in-person to online education to continue educational activities. This mandatory migration from face-to-face to online structures has been accompanied by challenges and opportunities.</span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify; margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Source Sans Pro;"><span style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span><span lang="EN">Our study found that </span><span lang="EN-US">challenges of online education from the perspective of student teachers included challenges related to the LMS (high cost of the internet, lack of adequate network coverage in rural areas, weak servers), faculty (teachers&#39; weakness in online teaching, refusing to use all of the LMS facilities, a large amount of assignments), and student (family environment, hardware equipment, enhancing cheating motivation, unfair competition, vision problems). </span><span lang="EN">In addition, according to student teachers, </span><span lang="EN-US">opportunities for online education included</span> <span lang="EN-US">flipped teaching, evaluation with a feed-forward approach, mastery learning, strengthened self-confidence in shy learners, and easy access to faculty members.</span> <span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify; margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Source Sans Pro;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:107%">Overall, the results indicate that online education, despite all the challenges, provides opportunities which can be effective if used appropriately.</span></span></span></span></li> </ul> Lived Experiences, Student Teachers, Online Education, COVID-19 Pandemic, Challenges &,,,,,,, Opportunities in HE 129 135 http://johepal.com/browse.php?a_code=A-10-158-4&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Seyed Hedayat Davarpanah 10031947532846001028 10031947532846001028 No University of Isfahan Negin Barat Dastjerdi 10031947532846001029 10031947532846001029 Yes University of Isfahan Zeinab Shirzad 10031947532846001030 0009-0007-6483-7765 No University of Isfahan