Forced Distance Learning in Covid-19: Peculiarities of the Position of Lecturers, Students of IT and Humanitarian Specialties
7th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’21): Proceedings 2021
Diana Zagulova, Natālija Prokofjeva, Sabina Kataļņikova, Anastasija Špakova, Viktorija Ziborova, Alexander Averin

This research examines the attitude of faculty lectors, Information Technology students (IT) and humanitarian students (HS) towards the aspects of forced distance learning (DL) due to Covid-19. About 70% of the surveyed IT students and 50% of HS believe that DL can fully replace face-to-face classes and completely switch to DL, about 70% of lecturers have the opposite opinion. At the same time, IT had a 4.5 times higher chance of a positive attitude towards the transition to DL than HS. The majority of all respondents consider that their own notes are important and that classroom learning is better than online. At the same time, among IT that are ready to switch to DL, 69.03% believe that the perception of educational material is better in the classroom. Fewer IT students (30.1%) than HS (68.2%) and lecturers (100%) consider that printed textbooks are important. About 70-90% of students consider that the following DL disadvantages are important: communication difficulties, cocial isolation, the need of self-discipline and self-motivation and fears that the employer will not appreciate the knowledge gained from DL. For the majority of IT, lack of student events is significant, and for the majority of HS, lack of competition between students is important


Atslēgas vārdi
Attitude towards online education; distance learning; electronic questionnaire
DOI
10.4995/HEAd21.2021.13057

Zagulova, D., Prokofjeva, N., Kataļņikova, S., Špakova, A., Ziborova, V., Averin, A. Forced Distance Learning in Covid-19: Peculiarities of the Position of Lecturers, Students of IT and Humanitarian Specialties. No: 7th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’21): Proceedings, Spānija, Valencia, 22.-23. jūnijs, 2021. Valencia: Editorial Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, 2021, 271.-279.lpp. ISBN 978-84-9048-811. Pieejams: doi:10.4995/HEAd21.2021.1305

Publikācijas valoda
English (en)
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