Teaching Disruption by COVID-19: Burnout, Isolation, and Sense of Belonging in Accounting Tutors in E-Learning and B-Learning

Parte, Laura; Herrador-Alcaide, Teresa

doi:10.3390/ijerph181910339

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Teaching Disruption by COVID-19: Burnout, Isolation, and Sense of Belonging in Accounting Tutors in E-Learning and B-Learning

Laura Parte

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Teresa Herrador-Alcaide

Department of Business and Accounting, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Paseo Senda del Rey, 11, 28040 Madrid, Spain

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Academic Editor: Paul B. Tchounwou

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(19), 10339; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910339

Received: 2 September 2021 / Revised: 22 September 2021 / Accepted: 27 September 2021 / Published: 30 September 2021

(This article belongs to the Topic Burden of COVID-19 in Different Countries)

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This study examines burnout syndrome, feelings of isolation, and sense of belonging in a sample of accounting tutors enrolled in e-learning and b-learning modalities before and after COVID-19 disruption. The study also includes several sociodemographic and labour variables to better understand the three dimensions. The participants were tutors enrolled in two accounting courses at higher education during the academic years 2019–2020 and 2020–2021. Our results do not show high levels of tutor burnout syndrome, neither before COVID-19 disruption nor after COVID-19 disruption. Findings also reveal that the isolation perception of accounting tutors is not high in both periods, while the sense of belonging of the teaching community is high in both periods. The evidence also suggests some variations in dimension scores according to sociodemographic and labour variables, but the evidence should be interpreted with caution due to the sample size. Despite this limitation, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that evaluates burnout, feelings of isolation, and sense of belonging in a tutor collective in e-learning and b-learning before and after COVID-19 disruption. View Full-Text

Keywords: teacher burnout; feelings of isolation; sense of belonging; b-learning; e-learning; COVID-19 pandemic; accounting; higher education

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Parte, L.; Herrador-Alcaide, T. Teaching Disruption by COVID-19: Burnout, Isolation, and Sense of Belonging in Accounting Tutors in E-Learning and B-Learning. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 10339. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910339

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Parte L, Herrador-Alcaide T. Teaching Disruption by COVID-19: Burnout, Isolation, and Sense of Belonging in Accounting Tutors in E-Learning and B-Learning. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(19):10339. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910339

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Parte, Laura, and Teresa Herrador-Alcaide. 2021. "Teaching Disruption by COVID-19: Burnout, Isolation, and Sense of Belonging in Accounting Tutors in E-Learning and B-Learning" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 19: 10339. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910339

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