ONLINE EDUCATION – REALITIES OF THE URBAN AND RURAL ENVIRONMENT OF BIHOR COUNTY DURING THE SARS COV 19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

Covid-19 has been declared as a pandemic disease by the World Health Organization on March 11th, 2020. During that period clinical education, students receive both in-class theoretical lectures and seminars. In Romania before this period the era of COVID-19, distance e-learning was not adopted as a modality of teaching within schools. In this article, we intend to underline and address the situation of on-line teaching from institutions pertaining to Bihor county in pandemic context in both urban and rural areas. Romanian education in general and that of Bihor county in particular had certain shortcomings in terms of online teaching. First of all, access to the Internet was a generalized challenge for both urban and rural students; as anticipated, the higher percentage was recorded in rural areas. Students' possession of or access to devices for synchronous online education left much to be desired at the time, the data provided displaying a more difficult situation in rural areas.

Keywords

• bihor county
• education
• urban and rural areas
• covid pandemia