How Students Perceive Online Teaching IT Subjects within the MS Teams Environment

Abstract

The presented research had two primary goals. The first goal was to determine students' attitude to lectures and exercises conducted through the MS Teams application. Students' attitudes to online teaching were identified by the students' activity within the subject Business Processes Modeling and students' opinions on the acquired knowledge's usability and applicability. Another goal of the research was to determine whether gender influences the perception of online teaching by students. The obtained results indicate that the MS Teams application lectures are more acceptable for students than face-to-face lectures. Also, in such a lecture, students are more active, more often asking the teacher questions. Surprisingly, MS Teams exercises are not considered more useful by students than face-to-face exercises. The results further showed that women assigned lower values to most factors than men. The results of the research predict the influence of gender on students' attitudes to online teaching. Additional, It would be necessary to determine whether the difference between men and women's average values is statistically significant. This difference can be verified in a larger group of respondents. Therefore, we plan to continue the research.