Education in Online Environment from Students’ and Teachers’ Perspective

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https://doi.org/10.23947/2334-8496-2021-9-2-203-226

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COVID-19, online teaching, outbreak, education, assessment, quality

Abstract

The pandemic related to COVID-19 has affected education particularly in terms of the massive shift towards online teaching and study. Students and teachers had to face new challenges they had not met before. The aim of the paper is to research how both, students and teachers perceive the online educational process, to identify advantages and disadvantages of online teaching, as well as to analyze and evaluate the quality of online teaching in comparison with the attendance form of education from both students’ and teachers’ perspective. In order to fulfill this purpose, we carried out two separate questionnaire surveys (among students and teachers at the Faculty of Economic Informatics at the University of Economics in Bratislava). Based on conclusions resulting from our research, we can affirm that both students and teachers prefer the attendance form of education rather than online teaching, students mainly because of need of socialization, personal contact with teachers and classmates, better and faster communication with teachers, and active class discussion. The attendance form of education eliminates technology related problems, such as outages of the Internet, electricity, missing technology equipment, and this form of education is performed on higher quality level in comparison with online education. Among the most frequently limitations of online education mentioned by teachers were anonymity of students, complexity of preparation of study materials, and cheating during exams and tests. There are also some advantages the online education offers, such as time savings, more effective, creative and flexible modern way of teaching, and recording lectures.

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Published

2021-08-31

How to Cite

Blahušiaková, M., Mokošová, D., & Šoltés, E. (2021). Education in Online Environment from Students’ and Teachers’ Perspective. International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education (IJCRSEE), 9(2), 203–226. https://doi.org/10.23947/2334-8496-2021-9-2-203-226

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Received 2021-05-11
Accepted 2021-08-04
Published 2021-08-31

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