COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities in the Online University Education

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic had a very severe impact on the education both in schools and in universities. In the span of several weeks, educators around the world had to transform completely the teaching method and students had to adapt to the new form of learning. The following article reviews the opinions of university students based on three different studies – one before the pandemic and the distance learning, one in the middle of it and one in the end of the distance learning. The goal is to see how students' thinking and perceptions of online learning has changed over the last three years as a result of different conditions