STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS TOWARD THE QUALITY OF ONLINE EDUCATION DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS TOWARD THE QUALITY OF ONLINE EDUCATION DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Summary/Abstract: COVID-19 pandemic has not only impacted human life but also impacted quality of online education, right after the shift from traditional face-to-face to e-learning. This study was conducted to investigate the perception of this type of learning amongst UPB students. This study used quantitative methods and was conducted by distributing an online questionnaire to UPB’s students. A total of 231 valid unduplicated responses were used to investigate the perceptions of online course-management, underlining factors that contribute to those perceptions (positive or negative), reconsidering the overall online learning activities initiated by university teaching staff. The following independent variables were investigated in this survey, based on students own online learning experiences, in contrast to traditional learning: interactivity, teacher facilitation, structure, learning style and self‐motivation. The findings of this research revealed that electronic learning, the core method of teaching the curriculum due to the wide worldwide spread the COVID-19 pandemic, requires an improvement of online instructional practices, in terms of a more interactive active approach, a well-thought-out strategy, a conceptual framework of online education combining knowledge from different domain: Pedagogy, Didactic, Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI), IT and Psychology - as potential determinants of a successful online learning.

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