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What Have We Learned about Online Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic - a Croatian Polytechnic Case Study

Nowadays we undoubtedly live in a digitalized society. Digital omnipresence can be seen in the way we eat, walk or talk. Despite the pros and contras regarding the benefits of digital technologies, our digitized lives are reshaping all aspects of societal life leaving no space intact. Even the higher education bastion has capitulated and embraced digital, online educational mode under the pressure of the recent COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The recent fact inevitably enabled all the members of the academic community to transfer fairly easily to full online education mode so suddenly forced by the COVID- 19 pandemic situation. In our research efforts to understand the implications of these imposed societal changing forces in higher education, this paper’s main aim is to tackle the relation between established traditional offline and digital online education technology forced upon HEIs during the lockdown to overlap the social gap emerged by the COVID-19 pandemic, from the two main stakeholders standing point: students and teachers. The research has been conducted at the Polytechnic in Pozega, Croatia for the period from 2016 to 2020 using a comparative analysis method and a questionnaire in traditional vs online student and teacher experience. The study encompassed about 1000 students and 63 teachers. The research itself consists of four main parts. The first part discusses the influence of online assessment on students’ success in final exams. The second and the third parts compare the results of teacher and course evaluation surveys at the end of summer semesters in a timeline frame mentioned above. The final part of the research problematizes polytechnic teachers’ attitudes and perception towards online teaching and assessment

COVID-19 ; online education ; survey

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