Abstract:

University Education should guarantee successful professional integration. In the pandemic context, medical restrains regarding the health protection of the population have generated behavior modifications and individual or collective attitude in the context of social interactions. All these are interconnected with effective learning. The higher education environment represents the field of social and professional interaction between the actors who are involved in the University environment. In the pandemic situation, many students the specialization has adopted a strategy for the development of the learning process in the University year of 2020-2021 in the online environment, a fact which resulted in a series of modifications in the students’ behavior and attitude regarding learning and the quality of learning. It is interesting to analyze the way in which first-year University students are adapting and integrating into the university environment being conditioned to online studying caused by the Pandemic context. The purpose of the research is to identify the educational best practice which can be adopted in the university field to allow successful academic integration as a first condition for an effective learning. Therefore, the general objective of the research is to analyze the students' opinions regarding the implications that the adopted educational practices influence the interpersonal relationships between students, given the pandemic time. The objectives of the research are: measuring students’ perception over factors which influence successful academic integration in pandemic times (SO1); measuring the students’ perception regarding the importance of academic environment internal and external factors which can influence the process of adapting and integrating within the Higher Education environment during pandemic times (SO2). The research has a mixt vision: theoretical and empirical. The empirical research was accomplished through the survey investigation on a random group of 157 students registered in the 1st from 2 Universities. The hypothesis of the research has monitored the following explanations: conditions of educational process development in pandemic times influences directly the quality of the learning process in pandemic times between students and also teachers (I1); conditions of the developing the learning process in times of pandemic times contributes to the rise on preoccupation for individual study and growth of school performance (I2). The conclusions of the research: successful academic adaptation and integration are highly correlated to interpersonal interaction as in face-to-face; individual virtual interaction contributes to adopting attitudes and behavior.

Keywords:

Pandemic, university education, virtual group, university adaptation, university integration, effective students.