Russian professors on distance education 2020

In April 2020, less than 30 percent of university professors in Russia found distance education fully or rather convenient for them. Higher education teachers tended to be skeptical towards that form of education, as more than 52 percent expressed a strong preference for their classes to be conducted in the face-to-face format.

Opinion of higher education professors on distance education in Russia in April 2020, by statement

Characteristic	Completely agree	Rather agree	Rather disagree	Completely disagree	Difficult to answer
It is better to conduct classes in my courses in face-to-face format	52.4%	35.4%	6.5%	1.5%	4.3%
Distance education is convenient for me personally	5.1%	22.8%	42.1%	25.1%	4.9%
Distance education is convenient for students	3.6%	23.3%	42%	17.9%	13.2%
I have more free time now	2.5%	9.1%	32.3%	53.4%	2.7%

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Release date

May 2020

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Region

Russia

Survey time period

April 10-15, 2020

Number of respondents

33,987 respondents*

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

Professors and teaching staff

Supplementary notes

*Representing around 15 percent of the total number of teaching staff of Russian universities.

The purpose of the study was to determine the level of support or rejection by prefessors of Russian universities for the transformation of education from full-time to distance education.

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