Abstract
Universities around the world have faced a new pandemic, forcing the closure of campuses that are now conducting educational activities on online platforms. The paper presents a survey about students behavior and attitudes towards online education in the pandemic period from the Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania. A group of 300 students participated. The questionnaire was structured in four parts to determine student’s individual characteristics, student’s needs, students’ knowledge in using virtual platforms and students’ quality preferences for online education. The students said that online education in a pandemic situation is beneficial for 78% of them. A total of 41.7% percent of students appreciated the teachers’ teaching skills and the quality of online courses since the beginning of the pandemic, and 18.7% percent of the students appreciated the additional online materials for study to support their education. However, students found online education stressful, but preferred online assessment for evaluation. This pandemic has led to the new stage of Education 4.0, online education, and the need to harmonize methods of education with the requirements of new generations.
Highlights
The concept of education has changed dramatically over the last few years, with many questions being raised as to what the best mode of instruction is with the advent of technology and the Internet
If we look in time at the stages of the evolution of education, we can see that from a traditional system that focused on books and teaching on the blackboard, over time the use of technology induced a new stage known as Education
At the same time 41.7% of students believe that the pandemic situation has led to improved teachers’ skills through new teaching methods and techniques adapted to the online environment since the beginning of the pandemic, and 34.7% of respondents consider satisfactory the new tools used by professors in their online lectures
Summary
The concept of education has changed dramatically over the last few years, with many questions being raised as to what the best mode of instruction is with the advent of technology and the Internet. The waves of the evolution of education in history begin in the. 1780s, with the first wave concerning the individual context of learning and memorization, known as Education 1. The second wave of mass learning appears around the 1900s, known as Education 2. The Internet that allows learning known as Education 3, begin from the 1970s, and has the addition of computers, but only as an interface with students which produces knowledge. If we look in time at the stages of the evolution of education, we can see that from a traditional system that focused on books and teaching on the blackboard, over time the use of technology induced a new stage known as Education
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