Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.59.3.4
What Did we Learn in/about Distance Learning?
Ivana Matić
orcid.org/0000-0001-8340-2280
; University of Zagreb, The Faculty of Economics & Business, Croatia
Draženka Stančić
orcid.org/0000-0001-8098-5425
; University College Edward Bernays, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The coronavirus pandemic has significantly changed our lives, and so has our education. From
the traditional form, there was a sudden transition to distance education with the current
closure of schools and colleges, which very quickly pointed to the lack of research in Coratia
about this education type or what is and what is not distance learning. According to some,
it is a teaching that involves synchronous learning where teachers and students are physically
distant (Pryor, Wilson, Chapman, Bates, 2020) and independent and / or guided learning,
and often in the process the teacher becomes a student. Distance learning is not new. First of
the correspondent type, later of the online type, the purpose was to provide access to quality
education to those who do not have this opportunity for various reasons (employment, life
in rural areas, etc.) (Davis and Roblyer, 2005). Despite its many advantages, research points
out that student failure is much more common compared to the traditional one (Zucker and
Kozma, 2003). The main goal of this paper is to investigate the attitude of students towards
distance learning, their success in two moments of teaching and whether there are aspects of
distance learning related to their success. For the purposes of the research, a special questionnaire
was constructed based on interviews about attitudes and experiences in distance learning
with a focus group of students, and 213 students from fifth to eighth grade participated in the
main research. The results showed that students’ attitudes towards distance learning are positive,
that students regularly perform their tasks, but there are also aspects they are not satisfied
with, such as the amount of task assigned and social isolation. It was also concluded that with
the duration of distance learning there are reduced levels of success and that there are aspects
of teaching that are related to student success.
Keywords
distance learning; new aspects of teaching; success in teaching; aspects of success; positive and negative attitude of students about distance learning
Hrčak ID:
271639
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Publication date:
31.1.2022.
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