From Traditional Education to the Online Training Process in Romanian Higher Education – an Experiment Generated by the New Coronavirus Pandemic

Abstract

Higher education is undergoing a permanent modernization process, through which it should demonstrate the ability to provide the best results in ensuring the professional training of human resources, an essential condition for achieving economic and social progress. The spectacular development registered in the field of information and communications technology has had a significant impact on education and teaching, at all levels, contributing to the modernization of teaching-learning-assessment methods. The pandemic generated by the Coronavirus has caused a rapid reorganization of the entire activity, in new directions, including in the field of education and teaching. The content of this paper draws attention to an analysis of the online education trends at the international level and what the experiment of replacing the traditional school with the online school model has meant, for a period of two months, at the level of the Faculty of Economic Sciences/FES within Ovidius University of Constanta.

Keywords

• traditional higher education
• coronavirus pandemic
• online training
• future approaches