Abstract:

In the spring of 2020, the Czech Republic was hit by a pandemic called COVID-19, which affected the whole world. Due to this situation, all primary, secondary and tertiary schools in the Czech Republic have switched from a full-time form of teaching to a distance form. During the extraordinary measures ordered by the Ministry of Education, various methods of distance learning began to be used, and the most suitable ways of setting up communication between teachers and students were sought. Until then, higher education for helping professionals, especially social workers, has been set to the preference for contact teaching. Social work is a specific field where, in addition to knowledge, so-called soft skills are also important - for example, interviewing.

The article deals with the evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of distance forms of teaching from the point of view of social work teachers at universities in the Czech Republic. The presented results are a partial output of a more extensive research survey dealing with the evaluation of distance learning during emergency measures taken by the Czech government in the epidemiological situation (COVID-19), which was conducted by a questionnaire survey in June 2020, on the pros and cons of distance learning.

Keywords:

Covid-19. Distance Education, Teachers.