The present study examines students' lived experience of the online education challenges in the Covid-19 era. The method is qualitative and field. The qualitative method used in the present study was Phenomenology. Participants included online learning students. Participants were sampled using purposive sampling with homogeneous sampling and a maximum diversity approach. This problem is continued until the theoretical saturation is reached. Finally, 14 interviews are conducted. The data collection tool is a semi-structured interview. Thematic analysis is used to analyze the data. The results showed that there are 5 main themes and 33 sub-themes. The results show that the online education challenges in the Covid-19 era included technical, managerial, Essential, cultural, and human challenges. In other words, paying attention to the identified challenges can pave the way for improving the online education situation in the Covid-19 era.

Keywords: schools, Covid-19, online education