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CASE STUDY: CHANGE OF APPROACH IN LEARNING PROCESS OF MICROECONOMICS SUBJECT DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AT THE UNIVERSITY
University of Zilina (SLOVAKIA)
About this paper:
Appears in: ICERI2021 Proceedings
Publication year: 2021
Pages: 7527-7531
ISBN: 978-84-09-34549-6
ISSN: 2340-1095
doi: 10.21125/iceri.2021.1685
Conference name: 14th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
Dates: 8-9 November, 2021
Location: Online Conference
Abstract:
Students and teachers meet many technical problems during the COVID-19 pandemic. Getting used to this way of study and work was not easy. In the higher education sector, there are a number of commercial e-learning tools and open sources tools too. Before of the Covid-19 pandemic, the economic subject of Microeconomics at the university was taught in the traditional way. The traditional way was that students attended the university physically and the subject was teach during "exercises". This approach has changed and students and teachers have moved to the MS Teams online environment. This change brought a lot of work on the part of teachers as well as students. Teachers had the difficult task of explaining the subject covered to the students via the Internet and also keep students attention. Microeconomics is based mainly on mathematics and calculating examples with explaining this subject through distance by internet is difficult task. Teachers have found a way to make this change and have even improved the way they teach. This was by the use of a tablet together with special tools, where students could participate directly at the „exercises“ and did not lose attention and motivation. The aim of the paper is to show what way of teaching this economic subject was used and to point out the fact, it had a positive impact on students' results.
Keywords:
Learning tools, online environment, economic subject, innovation, COVID-19 pandemic.