Distance learning challenges and prospects during Covid-19 in the context of adolescent education

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study is to identify the challenges and prospects of distance education for adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The main research method was the survey. Teenagers, parents and teachers were interviewed (330 people). One of the leaders of the study was a representative of the Technical Institute of NEFU in Neryungri. The results of the study made it possible to identify and analyze the main inconveniences of distance learning that young people suffered from. The following difficulties were identified: different teaching approaches (48.2%), lack of technical devices (7.6%), an increase in the number of homework assignments (86%).

KEYWORDS:

• Adolescents
• COVID-19
• educational process
• online learning
• survey

Acknowledgments

Svetlana Dmitrichenkova, Alena Vobolevich and Elena Dolzhich have been supported by the RUDN University Strategic Academic Leadership Program.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).