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

Laura Parte and Teresa Herrador-Alcaide
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Laura Parte: 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
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

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 19, 1-22

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: teacher burnout; feelings of isolation; sense of belonging; b-learning; e-learning; COVID-19 pandemic; accounting; higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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