Abstract:

Full-fledged online education in the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic, when full-time education is interrupted, is the main tool for overcoming the crisis in education. For this, it is essential to master the basic levels of communication throught the Internet. We talk about basic electronic communication, visual communication and team collaboration via the Internet, the processing of digital educational content and the creation of tools for feedback and diagnostics of students. The choice of communication tools is decided by the relevant university and it is also responsible for this choice.

The author of the article is based on a theoretical analysis of online educational approaches, analyzes and then he interprets the findings from the implemented empirical research with an impact on teaching practice in the conditions of universities. In the research, he surveyed the attitudes and opinions of university students on the impact of online education on the level of knowledge of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The total number of respondents participating in the research was 136 university students, of which 80 were women (58.82%) and 56 men (41.18%). To achieve the research objectives, we used the following research methods: analysis and synthesis of knowledge from relevant literature sources; questionnaire method - to find out the opinions and attitudes of university students and mathematical-statistical methods of evaluating research results.

Based on the evaluation of the testimonies of the research respondents, i.e. university students, we state that online teaching has a major negative impact on the quality of acquired knowledge and skills of university students. University students are also of the opinion that they are more comfortable with full-time teaching and do not recommend a gradual reorientation of university studies to online teaching in the future.

Keywords:

COVID-19 pandemic, online education, university student, student knowledge.