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This research examines the problem of the attitude of students and teachers to the online learning format, to which many universities in the world were forced to switch due to the COVID-19 pandemic occurred in 2020. This research aims to study how teachers and students relate to the online learning format, as well as to analyze aspects of communication and meaning transfer in online and classroom lessons. The object of the study was 104 students of higher educational institutions, as well as 38 teachers of higher educational institutions. Students answered questions from February 14 to March 3, 2021, and teachers from February 16 to March 12, 2021. The responses were collected using Google Forms. To study different aspects of the perception of online learning and aspects of transferring understanding of the content of academic disciplines among students of higher educational institutions, 2 original questionnaires were developed: a questionnaire for students, which included 17 questions, and a questionnaire for teachers, which included 21 questions. The questions concerned the attitude toward the online learning format, aspects of communication, and meaning transfer during class, as well as aspects of transferring the understanding of academic subjects. The results obtained indicate that teachers and students perceive the online learning format in different ways. Teachers have some difficulties in working in an online format, while students do not see significant difficulties in this format in terms of communication and understanding of academic subjects.
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Pronenko, E., Tsakhilova, K., Popova, D., Belikova, M. (2022). Teachers and Students in the Digital Age: Attitude to Online Learning, Analysis of Aspects of Communication and Meaning Transfer. In: Beskopylny, A., Shamtsyan, M. (eds) XIV International Scientific Conference “INTERAGROMASH 2021”. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 247. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80946-1_53
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