Open AccessBlended learning in lifelong adult education in the aspects of covid-19 epidemical restriction
Author(s) -
Lilita Ābele,
Dina Barute,
Lāsma Ulmane-Ozoliņa,
Baiba Rivža
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
landscape architecture and art
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.152
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2255-8640
pISSN - 2255-8632
DOI - 10.22616/j.landarchart.2021.19.14
Subject(s) - lifelong learning , covid-19 , pandemic , blended learning , digital learning , medical education , psychology , mathematics education , pedagogy , educational technology , medicine , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Digital skills are one of the most important skills that were highlighted in the times of COVID-19, including areas like landscape architecture. COVID-19 pandemic raised possibilities for blended-learning in adult education that were not used much before the pandemic. Data shows that Latvia’s inhabitants digital skills compared to the EU average is much lower and there is a need for innovative ways to attract lifelong learnersto participate in skills’ advancement courses. At the end of 2020, a survey was conducted with the aim of the survey to find out the society's self-assessment of digital skills and the need to improve them for remote working. Results showed that a high number of respondents are willing to participate in blended learning courses and areeager to develop their digital skills.