ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic forced teachers to suddenly stay at home and adapt to a change in our educational style. The form of education forced by the pandemic still persists at Slovak universities. Now, our students learn online only for two years already, without any personal contact with their teachers or classmates. This situation revealed our unpreparedness, both technological and also pedagogical. During the last years, we have continuously eliminated technological problems, but unfortunately, the pedagogical shortcomings still persist. The paper presents the project "Holistic Education and Training of University Teachers in the Field of Economics", which main goal is to create and evaluate an educational platform for teachers with a focus on the crucial knowledge and skills of teachers, important for transition into student-centered education not only in the field of economics. Outcomes of the project help teachers to master new pedagogical approaches, methods that are supportive of education innovation that leads into understanding how to encourage key competencies of our students. In this contribution, we identified the challenges that we face in connection of undergoing reforms in order to reflect changes in the human society and present the mentioned project that supports the teachers to do their job better. © 2022 Croatian Society MIPRO.
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent quarantine measures to stop its spread in particular states have significantly affected the educational process at all levels of the educational system. Almost instantly, teachers and students were forced to change their common practices in education, access to information and its sharing, including our educational institution. Although the Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle was previously actively used in the educational process of our course, in order to streamline studies in state of emergency, it was necessary to change the approach in its environment. It was required to implement and actively use multiple tools of LMS which have not been used before and to change the rules of implementation and evaluation of the students. Our course is dedicated to the informatics for the students of the economic studies. In Slovakia, still persists the general opinion that information and communication technologies (ICT) should be the domain of men, because of its technical background, although there is a gradual improvement in the view of women in the field of ICT. Given the above facts, it was interesting to investigate, how this awareness of the need for active use of ICT and its knowledge will reflect in students’ activity during the studying of the subject. Therefore, during the pandemic quarantine, the activity of our students was monitored and their opinions and feelings were compared between the genders. The paper will show the description of the implementation and adjustment of the educational process during the pandemic quarantine and the subsequent evaluation of the data obtained from different perspectives, especially focusing on the different approaches of both genders in the study. © 2020, Institute of Economic Sciences. All rights reserved.