Naslov
Comparison of COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on Teaching at the International, National and Institutional Level: A Case from Croatia

Autori
Bubaš, Goran

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
12th International Conference The Future of Education, Conference Proceedings / Pixel International Conferences - Bolonja, 2022

ISBN
979-12-80225-51-1

Skup
12th International Conference The Future of Education

Mjesto i datum
Firenca, Italija, 30.06.2022. - 01.07.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
e-learning, higher education, COVID-19 pandemic, survey, Croatia, evaluation of online instruction

Sažetak
Some of the experiences of higher education students with online teaching and learning during a two-year period of the COVID-19 pandemic are presented in this paper according to (1) international surveys, (2) surveys performed at the state level in Croatia, and also (3) at the level of one higher education institution from the north-western part of Croatia. International studies indicated that at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic as many as 93% of students in Europe and 86.7% of students globally experienced cancellation of their on-site (face-to-face) classes. For most of the students the on-site classes were substituted with real-time (synchronous) online video conferences, sending presentations to the students, as well as asynchronous video recordings of lectures. According to international surveys the average rating of satisfaction with online lectures appeared to be rather favorable (around 3 on a 1-5 point scale). Furthermore, according to another large survey performed in the USA, about half of the surveyed students reported that they did not adequately adapt to remote instruction and that in the environment of remote learning most of them were faced with various obstacles like lack of motivation and interaction with other students. In September 2021 a survey was performed at the national level on the students at higher education institutions in Croatia and it revealed that in the academic year 2021/2022 a total of 35% of participants found on-site (face-to-face) classroom instruction as the preferred form of teaching, but also that as many as 29% of them preferred entirely online teaching. Most of the surveyed students in Croatia expressed satisfaction with (a) the possibility to access teaching materials remotely from home, (b) their interaction with teachers in a virtual environment, and (c) criteria and methods of online student assessment. At the institutional level of one higher education institution in the north-western part of Croatia two identical surveys were performed at the end of the winter semester of academic years 2020/2021 and 2021/2022. The results revealed an increase in the average rating of students’ satisfaction with the remote teaching that was performed online, as well as of interestingness of online teaching. Also, more teachers were evaluated as being good in their use of IT tools and techniques in online teaching in the 2021/2022 academic year.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti

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