Professors on e-learning impact on quality Russia 2020

Higher education professors in Russian universities were rather pessimistic about the impact of the distant learning caused by the COVID-19 outbreak on the future of university schooling. Only 14.5 percent of survey respondents believed that the educational system would benefit from distance learning and that higher education would improve, while almost 43 percent strongly disagreed with that, stating that the quality of higher education would worsen as a consequence of the pandemic.

Opinion of higher education professors about the impact of distance education on the quality of higher education in Russia in April 2020

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Positive impact	14.5%
Negative impact	42.7%
No impact at all	20.3%
Difficult to answer	22.5%

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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

The original question was worded by the source as follows:
Do you think that the current situation caused by a coronavirus infection will lead to an improvement or deterioration in the quality of higher education in Russia or will it have no impact?

* 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 professors of Russian universities for the transformation of education from full-time to distance education.

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