Abstract:

Background:
In connection to the outbreak of COVID-19 the government of the Czech Republic declared state of emergency for the territory of the Czech Republic March 12 through May 17, 2020, which also affected college and university education. For the duration of this state, free movement of people was banned. As a result it was not possible to teach students in classrooms, examine them face to face, carry out practical education or teach at clinical workplaces. Special measures did not concern distance education and examination, e-learning, distance submission of qualification theses, etc.

Goal:
To analyze technical-educational deficits and needs of students during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Methods: Retrospectively, by means of a nonstandardized questionnaire we gained data from 70 respondents (students of nonmedical health care subjects (NMHCS) of the Faculty of Humanities (FH) with TBU in Zlín at the time of final state exams (end of June 2020).

Results:
The pilot survey was supposed to find the purpose and scale of use of information and communication technologies by NMHCS students (registered nurse, midwife, social worker). The analysis shows that the respondents mostly have adequate connection to the Internet, and are able to use social networks for private purposes. However, the respondents cannot work with information and communication technologies such as LMS Moodle and MS Teams, digital library of TBU that were used most frequently during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Faculty of Humanities of TBU. The respondents agreed that both the teachers and students were not adequately and in time informed of the possibilities and limitations of these tools and the platforms substituting full-time form of study.

Conclusion:
It is necessary to train both teachers and students to be able to make better use of the technologies that were used during the pandemic. Workshops are supposed to be held at the Faculty of Humanities of TBU focused on more precise technical use of LMS Moodle and MS Teams, and using the possibilities of TBU’s digital library.

Keywords:

TBU in Zlín, students, nonmedical health care subjects, digital technologies, distance education.