Conference paper 2021

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

eLearning and Software for Education Conference
Conference · pp. 483-491
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. © 2021, National Defence University - Carol I Printing House. All rights reserved.

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E-learning Interactivity learning styles course-management online instructional practices

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Author Affiliations
National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Funding & Acknowledgements
National Institutes of Health, NIH
Grant: NIGMS 1-U01-GM08778
This research was conducted in the context of the Multinational Influenza Seasonal Mortality Study (MISMS), an on-going international collaborative effort to understand influenza epidemiological and evolutionary patterns, led by the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (http://www.origem.info/misms/index.php). Funding for this project comes in part (LS) from the RAPIDD program of the Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, and from the Office of Global Affairs’ International Influenza Unit in the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. SB acknowledges financial support from RAPIDD program of the Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute of Health MIDAS program (Modeling Infectious Disease Agent Study, grant number NIH NIGMS 1-U01-GM08778].
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HHS
This research was conducted in the context of the Multinational Influenza Seasonal Mortality Study (MISMS), an on-going international collaborative effort to understand influenza epidemiological and evolutionary patterns, led by the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (http://www.origem.info/misms/index.php). Funding for this project comes in part (LS) from the RAPIDD program of the Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, and from the Office of Global Affairs’ International Influenza Unit in the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. SB acknowledges financial support from RAPIDD program of the Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute of Health MIDAS program (Modeling Infectious Disease Agent Study, grant number NIH NIGMS 1-U01-GM08778].
Fogarty International Center, FIC
This research was conducted in the context of the Multinational Influenza Seasonal Mortality Study (MISMS), an on-going international collaborative effort to understand influenza epidemiological and evolutionary patterns, led by the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (http://www.origem.info/misms/index.php). Funding for this project comes in part (LS) from the RAPIDD program of the Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, and from the Office of Global Affairs’ International Influenza Unit in the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. SB acknowledges financial support from RAPIDD program of the Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute of Health MIDAS program (Modeling Infectious Disease Agent Study, grant number NIH NIGMS 1-U01-GM08778].
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, DHS
This research was conducted in the context of the Multinational Influenza Seasonal Mortality Study (MISMS), an on-going international collaborative effort to understand influenza epidemiological and evolutionary patterns, led by the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (http://www.origem.info/misms/index.php). Funding for this project comes in part (LS) from the RAPIDD program of the Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, and from the Office of Global Affairs’ International Influenza Unit in the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. SB acknowledges financial support from RAPIDD program of the Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute of Health MIDAS program (Modeling Infectious Disease Agent Study, grant number NIH NIGMS 1-U01-GM08778].
Science and Technology Directorate, S&T
This research was conducted in the context of the Multinational Influenza Seasonal Mortality Study (MISMS), an on-going international collaborative effort to understand influenza epidemiological and evolutionary patterns, led by the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (http://www.origem.info/misms/index.php). Funding for this project comes in part (LS) from the RAPIDD program of the Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, and from the Office of Global Affairs’ International Influenza Unit in the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. SB acknowledges financial support from RAPIDD program of the Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute of Health MIDAS program (Modeling Infectious Disease Agent Study, grant number NIH NIGMS 1-U01-GM08778].
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