Communicators in e-learning – recommendations for teaching practice at the times of coronavirus COVID-19 – report from pilot research

• Dorota Anna Siemieniecka

  Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0745-9960

The text presents an excerpt from qualitative research conducted in the situation of coronavirus COVID-19 at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. 50 students took part in the qualitative research. The aim of the aforesaid research was to determine the ways in which students use Internet tools for educational purposes at the time of the pandemics and what are their expectations concerning the educational use of Internet communicators by their lecturers. The research was to diagnose the state of e-learning (with respect to the group of NCU students) and, after data analysis, to make recommendations for educational practice. The results obtained show that the majority of students use communicators for educational purposes, especially to work on projects with their colleagues. They also seek help in a group of their friends, whereas lecturers rarely appreciate possibilities of using communicators in education. 

1. Dorota Anna Siemieniecka, Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń

   Head of the Department of Didactics and Media in the Institute of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. She is a member of Polish Pedagogical Association and Polish Society of Cognitive Sciences and main editor of scientific journal Cognitive Science- New Media- Education.
   Member of the media pedagogy section Committee of Pedagogical Sciences
   of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her scientific interests, research and teaching activities fo-cus on the issues of didactics, creativity in education, creative teaching, the use of media in the education process, as well as the cognitive aspects of media in education. She is also the chair-man of the scientific and organizational committee of a series of international conferences devot-ed to the issues of education based on educational technologies (http://www.edukacja.torun.pl/konferencje-i-seminaria/konferencje-organizowane-przez-kdimwe/).

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