A managerial perspective over one year of online education in Romania. A case study at the University of Petroşani

¹ Head of the Management and Industrial Engineering Department, University of Petroşani, Petroşani, 332006 Romania
² Mining Engineering, Surveying and Construction Department, University of Petroşani, Petroşani, 332006, Romania
³ Management and Industrial Engineering Department, University of Petroşani, Petroşani, 332006 Romania

^* Corresponding author: eduardedelhauser@upet.ro

Abstract

The authors tried to analyse the implication of one year of online education in one of the smallest Romanian university. The analysis was seen as a challenge for the management of a university who was not prepare for e-learning or online education at the beginning of the pandemic crisis. They have made a double investigation, one from the professor perspective and another from the students one. They had investigated the main feature of a standard online or a classical eLearning solution, such as the meeting solution or the videoconference software, the collaborative work such as homework or projects and the testing method or the quizzes from both perspectives. Because the university didn’t adopt a unique solution they had made a comparison between the used solutions, and more important they identified the efficiency of the university management in implementing the online education in the pandemic crisis period.