Integrating Business Students’ E-Learning Preferences into Knowledge Management of Universities after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dávid Máté Hargitai, Florina Pinzaru and Zoltán Veres
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Dávid Máté Hargitai: Department of Marketing, University of Pannonia, Egyetem utca 10, 8200 Veszprém, Hungary
Florina Pinzaru: Faculty of Management, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration SNSPA, bd. Expoziției 30A s.1, 012104 Bucharest, Romania
Zoltán Veres: Department of Marketing, University of Pannonia, Egyetem utca 10, 8200 Veszprém, Hungary

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 5, 1-21

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic forced many universities to close doors and keep students completely online—a phenomenon that raised unprecedented challenges with lessons learned that should be integrated into future educational knowledge management strategies and practices. Special attention should be given to students’ learning habits. This paper presents the results of a semi-systematic literature review on the research problem and a survey of a sample of business students regarding their learning habits and preferences. Learnings of the research can be useful for the transition to an entirely online distance education, integrated in the framework of knowledge management strategies regarding e-learning in universities. The primary quantitative research was conducted before the start of the lockdown, and the results give useful insights that can be translated into mandatory elements for any strategy designed to assure a smooth and effective passage from in-class education to online teaching and learning. Students’ pre-epidemic learning habits, their use of communication tools and their preferences for solutions usable in distance education, with a special focus on gender and education level, have been investigated. Results are correlated in the paper with possible knowledge management strategies in universities as part of an approach with both academic and practical implications.

Keywords: online learning; e-learning systems; educational knowledge management; business education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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