Academic Writing Skills in the Online Platform- A Success, a Failure or Something in Between? A Study on Perceptions of Higher Education Students and Teachers in the UAE

During the unprecedented events of the COVID19 outbreak, most universities in the UAE and worldwide had to move to online teaching. The current study is about the perceptions of undergraduate students and teachers of the extent of success of switching to the online platform to meet the undergraduate courses' teaching and learning goals in academic writing classes. Two Likert-scales surveys were given to students and teachers in a higher education institution in the UAE to explore the participants' perceptions, and the results were analyzed. The study concluded that both teachers and students were satisfied with the outcomes of studying online, and they did not face real challenges.