Abstract:

The lockdowns in response to COVID-19 interrupted conventional schooling world-wide, and educational communities had to make efforts to maintain teaching and learning continuity during these lockdown periods. Pupils and students had to rely more on their own resources to continue in their education remotely and teachers had to adapt to new pedagogical concepts and modes of delivery of teaching, for which they were not trained. Education at higher education institutions has not been any exception of this.

To find out how the experiences obtained during the first wave of the coronavirus (summer semester of the academic year 2019/2020) influenced the carried out higher education at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, and how these experiences have been reflected within the second wave of the coronavirus (winter semester of the academic year 2020/2021), a comparative study of education processes led within the first and second wave was prepared.

In the paper there will be presented a part of comparative study results focused on conditions of students` home schooling environments during the given two coronavirus waves. The conditions will be discussed in frame of two aspects. This will be discussed broadly from the aspect of the technical equipment used by the university students and students` opinions with the experienced on-line forms of education. Additionally, it will be discussed in short also from the point of view of the home environment microclimate (influence of the home environment microclimate on the achieved home schooling results).

Keywords:

Coronavirus pandemics, on-line forms of education, learning achievements, technical equipment, microclimate of the education environment.