A Managerial Research of Online Education in the Primary and Secondary Romanian Education System During COVID 19 Crisis

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

^* Corresponding author: eduardedelhauser@upet.ro

Abstract

The authors tried to analyse the implication of one year of online education in the Romanian primary education, lower secondary education, upper secondary education and even in the early childhood system. COVID-19 was seen as a social phenomenon world-wide and also in Romanian, that affected many elements of the society, including education. The study is based on a survey and used the online questionnaire investigation composed of 10 questions and authors have received more than 2500 answers from the respondents. The investigation took place during 29th of January 2021 and 11th of February 2021. The study concluded that, in the Romanian primary and secondary education system most schools migrated quickly to an online education system. The result shows also that over 82% of the students have participated rhythmic to online education and 50% to 60% of them used a Google Classroom platform or another virtual classroom. In the authors opinion the future of the Romanian education system will represent from now on a continuous debate between classic and online education, considering that only 10% of the Romanian students have no access to Internet and another 8% of the students did not have a computer, a laptop, a tablet, or a smartphone and obvious could not take online classes.