ONLINE EDUCATION – A POST-COVID TEACHING TREND? STUDENTS PERSPECTIVE
ONLINE EDUCATION – A POST-COVID TEACHING TREND? STUDENTS PERSPECTIVE
Author(s): Ioseb Gabelaia, Olga Maria Cristina BucoveţchiSubject(s): Higher Education , Health and medicine and law, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Distance learning / e-learning
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: online learning; teaching-learning; pandemic education; student experiences; communications;
Summary/Abstract: The global pandemic obliged universities as a whole to move their educational activities onto online platforms. Many universities were not primed for such a sudden change, therefore their online teaching‐learning methods progressed steadily. The present demarche aimed to identify students’ perception towards online education during COVID-19 pandemics. The study applied qualitative and quantitative research methods to explore and analyze information. The research process was divided into two main phases: literature review, and survey study with closed and open-end questions. The study received responses from 156 randomly selected students on various study levels. The vast majority of the students agreed that currently, online education is teaching- learning trend. Students positively evaluated the educational process, while indicating that the instructors were getting better with software platforms. Lastly, most of the students believe that online education is second to the in-person classroom experience.
Journal: Conference proceedings of »eLearning and Software for Education« (eLSE)
- Issue Year: 17/2021
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 374-381
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
