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COVID-19 Pandemic Affects Children’s Education but Opens up a New Learning System in a Romanian Rural Area

(1) Background: In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the educational system in Romania faced major challenges. Online knowledge development was necessary and mandatory during this time; (2) Methods: our study included a group of 140 preadolescents and used a phenomenology qualitative method to i...

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Autores principales: Oprea, Oana Miruna, Bujor, Iuliana Elena, Cristofor, Alexandra Elena, Ursache, Alexandra, Sandu, Bianca, Lozneanu, Ludmila, Mandici, Cristina Elena, Szalontay, Andreea Silvana, Gaina, Marcel Alexandru, Matasariu, Daniela-Roxana
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9856760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36670643
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10010092
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author Oprea, Oana Miruna
Bujor, Iuliana Elena
Cristofor, Alexandra Elena
Ursache, Alexandra
Sandu, Bianca
Lozneanu, Ludmila
Mandici, Cristina Elena
Szalontay, Andreea Silvana
Gaina, Marcel Alexandru
Matasariu, Daniela-Roxana
author_facet Oprea, Oana Miruna
Bujor, Iuliana Elena
Cristofor, Alexandra Elena
Ursache, Alexandra
Sandu, Bianca
Lozneanu, Ludmila
Mandici, Cristina Elena
Szalontay, Andreea Silvana
Gaina, Marcel Alexandru
Matasariu, Daniela-Roxana
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description (1) Background: In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the educational system in Romania faced major challenges. Online knowledge development was necessary and mandatory during this time; (2) Methods: our study included a group of 140 preadolescents and used a phenomenology qualitative method to investigate if the novel online teaching, implemented in a hurry during the pandemic without any previous teacher training, managed to replace face-to-face teaching; (3) Results: The students have expressed their joy for online courses, as long as they are kept interactive. Even though they feel nervous and worried when it comes to evaluation, the students claim they feel capable to learn all of the learning materials. Most of them are pleased by classes and do not get bored during them, feeling constantly motivated to actively participate in dialogue; (4) Discussions: Despite the lack of teaching-method standardization, our learning providers succeeded in accomplishing their tasks during online courses. Even in remote rural areas, they managed to assure the means for these children to access and take part in online courses; (5) Conclusions: our learning system must offer teachers the possibility to emphasize online education using adequate training programs aiming to develop technical and online pedagogical skills.
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spelling pubmed-98567602023-01-21 COVID-19 Pandemic Affects Children’s Education but Opens up a New Learning System in a Romanian Rural Area Oprea, Oana Miruna Bujor, Iuliana Elena Cristofor, Alexandra Elena Ursache, Alexandra Sandu, Bianca Lozneanu, Ludmila Mandici, Cristina Elena Szalontay, Andreea Silvana Gaina, Marcel Alexandru Matasariu, Daniela-Roxana Children (Basel) Article (1) Background: In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the educational system in Romania faced major challenges. Online knowledge development was necessary and mandatory during this time; (2) Methods: our study included a group of 140 preadolescents and used a phenomenology qualitative method to investigate if the novel online teaching, implemented in a hurry during the pandemic without any previous teacher training, managed to replace face-to-face teaching; (3) Results: The students have expressed their joy for online courses, as long as they are kept interactive. Even though they feel nervous and worried when it comes to evaluation, the students claim they feel capable to learn all of the learning materials. Most of them are pleased by classes and do not get bored during them, feeling constantly motivated to actively participate in dialogue; (4) Discussions: Despite the lack of teaching-method standardization, our learning providers succeeded in accomplishing their tasks during online courses. Even in remote rural areas, they managed to assure the means for these children to access and take part in online courses; (5) Conclusions: our learning system must offer teachers the possibility to emphasize online education using adequate training programs aiming to develop technical and online pedagogical skills. MDPI 2023-01-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9856760/ /pubmed/36670643 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10010092 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Oprea, Oana Miruna
Bujor, Iuliana Elena
Cristofor, Alexandra Elena
Ursache, Alexandra
Sandu, Bianca
Lozneanu, Ludmila
Mandici, Cristina Elena
Szalontay, Andreea Silvana
Gaina, Marcel Alexandru
Matasariu, Daniela-Roxana
COVID-19 Pandemic Affects Children’s Education but Opens up a New Learning System in a Romanian Rural Area
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title_full COVID-19 Pandemic Affects Children’s Education but Opens up a New Learning System in a Romanian Rural Area
title_fullStr COVID-19 Pandemic Affects Children’s Education but Opens up a New Learning System in a Romanian Rural Area
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 Pandemic Affects Children’s Education but Opens up a New Learning System in a Romanian Rural Area
title_short COVID-19 Pandemic Affects Children’s Education but Opens up a New Learning System in a Romanian Rural Area
title_sort covid-19 pandemic affects children’s education but opens up a new learning system in a romanian rural area
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9856760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36670643
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10010092
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