Abstract:

The school almost stopped in the face of de Covid-19 pandemic that has spread worldwide, and digital learning has become the lifeline for education. In a constantly moving world, a major change was needed in today's education systems. The challenge was the ability and ingenuity of educators to find solutions to suit the learning needs of students. The potential of online education lies in the opportunity to use online applications in order to customize learning according to the individual characteristics of each student to a greater extent than traditional education.

While social networks are built on the basis of algorithms that aim to sort us into clusters with same opinions, interests, tastes, mentalities ... thus diminishing the ability of users to reflect and create a certain reality, the online school must start from the premise that students must be educated to think for themselves, to be creative and vigilant so that they can perceive and eliminate mental passivity and tendencies to manipulate. Digital education must develop communities in which teachers and students work together to make it as attractive as possible, to share and develop teaching resources.

Real changes can often take place in situations of deep crisis, and the pandemic, by disrupting the entire educational system, falls into this pattern. One issue that deserves attention is the concern to use digital technology to complement, not replace, and build a culture that facilitates e-learning and the use of information and communication technology for lifelong learning.

In the current context, with the need to replace traditional with online education - because of coronavirus, questions about its effectiveness and ease of use have arisen. Assessing the continuous training needs of teachers is the first step towards identifying those resources that can really contribute to improving the quality of the educational act.

For this purpose, we conducted a study on the state of the high school and middle school education systems during Covid-19 pandemic in Romania from March to April 2020. The survey was applied in order to analyze their condition, to identify learning needs of teachers and issues they face and come up with solutions to reduce and even eliminate them.

As investigative tools we used questionnaires for teachers, students and parents. In order to collect the most coherent and useful data, and the most objective and relevant feedback on the learning needs, each questionnaire for students and parents contains 21 questions, and the questionnaire for teachers 24 questions. The sample consisted of 2822 respondents distributed as follows: 956 teachers, 1083 students and 783 parents.
This paper aims to present results of this study, the identified issues after the answers analysis and possible solutions.

Keywords:

Online education, Covid-19 pandemics.