An Opportunity for Both Distance and Face-to-Face Learning

Abstract

There is no single opinion about the organization of the learning process in emergency and epidemic situations. Even more face-to-face learning, blended learning and distance learning have own advantages. The goal of each teaching team is a realization of learning combining the advantages of all three types of learning processes. For learning choosing, the wishes and possibilities of the students must be taken into account. Very often, for reasons beyond their control, they are not able to attend classes in person. The reasons may be their health condition, country borders closing, transport blockage, etc. This is another reason to develop different learning models that best meet the needs of individual groups of students. If it is necessary and if it is possible, these models can be combined. This will make the learning process more flexible and adaptable. As more flexible the learning process is, as more students will be able to benefit from it.Engineering training has its own specific requirements due to the practical orientation of the knowledge to be acquired. These requirements must also be taken into account when choosing a learning method.This paper proposes an opportunity for combined learning both face-to-face and distance learning. On this way theirs advantages are saved.