Abstract :
The latest COVID-19 pandemic is a specific and unusual event. It forced universities to close their doors and move fully to distance
education. The sudden shift from traditional education to full distance education created many challenges and difficulties for
universities, faculty members, and students. &is study aims to investigate the challenges and obstacles faced by undergraduate
women in Saudi Arabia universities while using online-only learning during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. Moreover, this
study provides some recommendations to address these challenges from undergraduate women’s perspectives. The study used a
qualitative research methodology to investigate the challenges and difficulties. The participants were undergraduate women
selected using random purposive sampling technique from the population of College of Computer and Information Sciences
(CCIS) at Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University (PNU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. &e final sample consisted of 68 undergraduate women who responded to a predesigned open-ended questionnaire that was sent via e-mail to targeted respondents.
&e data gathered from the questionnaire were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results of the research revealed that the
most obvious challenges identified by the participants were technical issues, lack of in-person interaction, distractions and time
management, lack of a systematic schedule, stress and psychological pressure, missing the traditional university environment,
limited availability of digital devices, and lack of access to external learning resources.
