A Pilot Study on Comparison Of Workloads of Academicians Based On Working Periods During And Before The Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the world, changing people's social and working lives. As all educational institutions, especially higher education, suspended face-to-face education and switched to distance education. This change in working life has inevitably affected the working styles and workloads of academicians. In this context, it is aimed to reveal the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the workloads of academicians due to their working periods. For this purpose, the one-year face-to-face education period before the COVID-19 pandemic and distance education during the pandemic period transaction data were compared. For this purpose, transaction data were compared to the one year of face-to-face education before the COVID-19 pandemic and distance education during the pandemic period. The data used for comparison were taken from the system logs of a learning management system platform that was used effectively during the pre-pandemic and pandemic period. Pre-pandemic and pandemic period data were examined in terms of variables such as transaction density, day, and time zone of transactions. As a result of the study, it was determined that during the pre-pandemic period, the processing intensity of the academicians was higher than the processing intensity on weekends. However, with the transition to distance education during the pandemic process, it has been determined that the difference between weekday and weekend processing intensity has disappeared at a high level. It has been determined that the working time has shifted to the later hours of the day, approximately one hour with the pandemic.