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Due to the coronavirus pandemic, students and pupils moved from regular classrooms and school benches to virtual classrooms. Although it used to be difficult to imagine, classes are now taking place remotely. What are the challenges of this type of teaching? How do professors see this way of teaching and how do students and pupils see it? We talked to them, opinions and impressions were divided.
At most faculties of the University of Pristina, certain online systems had functioned even before – mostly when it comes to exam registration, bulletin boards… However, a state of emergency has been declared and interpersonal contacts have been brought to a minimum to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Due to the urgency, online classes started without much preparation. They are now taking place for most faculties.
The difficulty of starting this type of teaching was borne by the educators themselves, as well as the faculty service centers.
“We had a very short time to find the best way to transfer the teaching materials, to measure the scope and difficulty of tasks, taking into account the fact that students would receive assignments from all teachers, we had to prepare the materials and find contact details of all students. However, as time went on, the difficulties and dilemmas disappeared. We quickly adapted to this situation,” explains Emilija Redžić, Assistant Professor of Morphology of the Serbian Language at the Department of Serbian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philology in Kosovska Mitrovica.
Jelena Mihajlović, Professor of the Orthography of the Serbian Language and an Introduction to the Methods of Teaching the Serbian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philology in Kosovska Mitrovica, and her colleague Nikola Dančetović, a philologist from the Department of English Language and Literature, agree that there are no particular problems in conducting online classes.
Students generally contact professors for additional explanations and instructions regarding the teaching materials.
“And that is resolved very quickly by exchanging emails,” Mihajlović added.
“Since I am in constant contact with many colleagues, I can say with certainty that other teachers are also fully available to students,” Redžić added.
Students and professors now exchange information through emails and various media for communication via the Internet. There are no conversations, lectures, face-to-face discussions, so the question is whether they manage to learn the necessary in that way.
“Yes, they can, but a disadvantage is that sometimes it (communication) is taking slow,” says Dančetović.
