Abstract:

The period of the global coronavirus pandemic is reflected in several human activities. One of the areas affected by measures to prevent the spread of a pandemic is education. The face-to-face teaching, in the classical form, was moved from day to day to virtual environment. Teachers who had not used distance forms of teaching, nor as a support for full-time teaching until then, had to familiarize themselves quickly with this environment. The university studies of future assisting professionals are specific in this respect. It is based, among other things, on mutual interaction, such as the use of model situations, discussions and likewise. For this reason, it is interesting to focus on the opinions of teachers of these disciplines and find out how they evaluate the differences between distance and full-time forms of teaching.

The article focuses on the evaluation of the demands associated with distance and classical - full-time teaching from the perspective of university teachers of students in the field of social work in the Czech Republic. It will be evaluated how teachers perceive the differences in the diffuculty of preparation for the use of distance learning forms in comparison with the classical form of study and how they evaluate the demands of the course of distance teaching in comparison with the classical form of study. The presented results are a partial output of a larger research survey dealing with the evaluation of distance education during emergency measures taken by the government of the Czech Republic in the context of the epidemiological situation (COVID-19), which was conducted by means of a questionnaire survey in June 2020 among university teachers of students in the field of social work in the Czech Republic.

Keywords:

Social work, students of social work, distance learning, COVID-19.