THE IMPACT OF COVID 19 ON THE ROMANIAN MILITARY EDUCATION
THE IMPACT OF COVID 19 ON THE ROMANIAN MILITARY EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian military education system, like other military and civilian educational systems worldwide, has been affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Sanitary measures such as lock-downs and the need to respect social distancing have had profound implications on the education process, such as the need to move the classes in hybrid and online formats, depending on national regulations and the severity of the outbreak in various countries and regions. The aim of this paper is to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of online compared to regular military education, with particular focus on the Romanian military education system. The pandemic has highlighted numerous failures in the current educational system, some of them specific to the online education (such as lack of training for teachers in designing online courses, lack of training for students on using e-learning technology) and some more general, related to the educational system itself (such as a lack of foresight and strategy related to e-learning, whose implementation had to be done on emergency basis, with the associated problems). At the same time, the COVID 19 pandemic has brought to the public and decision maker’s attention the undeniable advantages of e-learning, both in the civilian and military education systems. In the second chapter, the paper offers potential solutions and forward steps into implementing online procedures, techniques and tools to further develop online education and training in the field of military education that could be of use in a post pandemic world. The main conclusion of the paper is that digitization is a priority in a globalized world and online education as part of it has expanded to the circumstances of the Covid-19 crisis. The Romanian military education system should strive to correlate the needs of students, teaching staffs and institutions and to integrate the resulting effects will lead to a more innovative and effective driven learning process.

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