Effective Teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Distance Learning and Sustainable Communication in Romania

Laurențiu Petrila, Gabriela Goudenhooft (), Beáta Fatime Gyarmati, Felix-Angel Popescu, Corneliu Simuț and Alina-Carmen Brihan
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Laurențiu Petrila: Doctoral School of Sociology, University of Oradea, 410610 Oradea, Romania
Beáta Fatime Gyarmati: Doctoral School of Sociology, University of Oradea, 410610 Oradea, Romania
Felix-Angel Popescu: Faculty of Juridical and Administrative Sciences, Agora University of Oradea, 410610 Oradea, Romania
Corneliu Simuț: Department of Historical and Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa
Alina-Carmen Brihan: Department of Political Sciences and Communication Sciences, Faculty of History, International Relations, Political Sciences and Communication Sciences, University of Oradea, 410610 Oradea, Romania

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 12, 1-26

Abstract: Telecommuting in education field, enforced by Romanian Government measures as policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic, has had a tremendous effect both on teaching professionals and on students. This paper investigates the first group, namely the teachers and their perception of online education versus students’ academic performance during distance learning, with a particular focus on the negative factors impacting educational activities: objective ones, such as the limits of technology, and personal subjective ones, as in the phenomenon of negative affect. The study is based on quantitative research that assesses the relationship between personal subjective factors (skills, affect, difficulties in adapting, level of preparedness, professional satisfaction) and technological objective factors (inadequate electronic devices, faulty internet services), with a view to establishing if online education is genuinely sustainable as a valid educational system in the long run. 881 teachers from Romania were subjected to reflect on the effectiveness of online education during the pandemic, resulting in a correlational study with some interesting conclusions and directions highlighted as characteristic for a sustainable educational program. All in all, it can be concluded that when teachers become experienced in online teaching, the efficiency of online teaching is set to improve and when improvement happens, online teaching becomes sustainable as a proper method of training via online-facilitated means of communication.

Keywords: online education; distance learning; educational services; digital competencies; effectiveness of online education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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