Open AccessE-Learning challenge studying the COVID-19 pandemic
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of web-based learning and teaching technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.299
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1548-1107
pISSN - 1548-1093
DOI - 10.4018/ijwltt.289537
Subject(s) - covid-19 , curriculum , diversification (marketing strategy) , context (archaeology) , pandemic , process (computing) , online learning , social media , distance education , computer science , knowledge management , psychology , mathematics education , pedagogy , multimedia , medicine , world wide web , business , paleontology , disease , pathology , marketing , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology , operating system
The research is devoted to the study of modern e-learning challenges in the context of social distance, the analysis of learning experience, problems and opportunities associated with online learning. The research was carried out at the ‘Blinded for peer review’ and involved 300 graduate students. A qualitative method based on a two-step process was used in the study. The online learning challenges and opportunities were analyzed with due regard to pedagogical, social, and technological aspects. The results of the study demonstrated that online learning is an efficient tool for the development of Hard Skills while being less effective for the improvement of Soft Skills; they also allowed us to identify important aspects of professional personnel training which should be taken into account while developing a strategy for harmonizing on-campus and online education with the diversification of curricula by various pedagogical technologies and digital tools, as well as bringing social interactions into classroom activities.