THE CHALLENGES OF ONLINE TEACHING IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
THE CHALLENGES OF ONLINE TEACHING IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: The transition to online teaching presupposed the acceptance of the need to implement changes in terms of paradigm, mentality, training, so that classic and modern psychological and pedagogical theories were reconsidered. This article also aims to identify, in the teachers' perception, the specific elements of the design and development of online teaching activities, and to identify the teachers' perception of the degree of support received from support and guidance providers, as well as the support and guidance needs of teachers. Also, the study of the difficulties encountered by teachers and students in online didactic activities, as well as the teachers' perception of the degree of completion of the didactic contents by the students. At the same time, we were interested in identifying the actions taken by university teaching staff to support student motivation in the context of online teaching activities. The confirmatory research carried out by us based on the questionnaire had as subjects, 32 university teaching staff. The article ends with the descriptive statistics of the results obtained and with the formulation of the most important conclusions regarding the challenges of online teaching. The main difficulties encountered by students during the online learning period concerned the use of technology as well as the lack of non-performing devices. University teaching staff consider the continued use of digital tools and resources in face-to-face activities to be important and helpful.

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