University education and the new teaching configurations during pandemics [Articol]

Abstract

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the higher education system, including on the journalistic university training was able to emphasize the favourable circumstances for the development of a new form of university pedagogy – the convergent higher education. In this context, the teaching-learning-assessment methodologies and the traditional rules of organizing university training were redacted and obtained new valences and the parties involved in the teaching processes were determined, in order to deal with the challenges, to remodel their activity and communication and to develop new professional skills, mainly of a digital nature. The new configuration of university teaching represents the research object of the present study, whose main purpose is to establish its advantages and disadvantages. In this context, the scientific interest axis is centred: 1) on the changes which took place in the university teaching processes, as a result of the pandemic effects on the education system, and which triggered changes in the scientific-didactic strategies, practices and techniques, traditionally applied in higher education, 2) on the characteristics of the convergent type of teaching, which got extrapolated and started to be applied on a global scale under the influence of the expansion and amplification of the pandemic crisis and 3) on the changes that took place in the identity profile of the teaching staff, following the pandemic effects on their professional activity.