Abstract:

The diverse international institutions have been investigating the force majeure circumstances impact on humankind’s life under the COVID-19 pandemic conditions including schooling. The World Economic Forum claimed, “The COVID-19 has changed education forever.” ¹ It is an inarguable fact that the digital technologies and the online learning have transferred from the teaching-learning process peripheral to its nucleus.

The present case study has focused on the following issues:
i. to explore how students perceive the forced online learning;
ii. to analyse how students evaluate their experience;
iii. to develop further teaching strategies.

The target audience, the senior secondary students from the two vocational schools, answered the questions of the e-questionnaire, participated in the discussions, did the written creative works which aims were to provoke them to explicit their viewpoints. The case study rationale was based on the necessity to re-consider the prior-pandemic digital teaching and learning, to receive feedback from the students concerning the activities and classwork organisation over the last five academic terms, to generate the new approaches, methods, and tasks for the various teaching modes including online, distance, hybrid, and blending learning. The received data allowed to highlight the respondents’ attitude and their preferences to the various activities they did on the different Internet platforms. The honest critical students’ vision on the new challenges in education assisted to establish a new path in digital teaching.

References:
[1] C. Li, F. Lalani, “The COVID-19 pandemic has changed education forever. This is how”, World Economic Forum, April 29, 2020. Retrieved from URL: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/coronavirus-education-global-covid19-online-digital-learning/

Keywords:

COVID-19 pandemic, online learning, students’ perception, students’ self-reflection, foreign language teaching (FLT).