A Moodle platform can be successfully integrated into any course for the purpose of introducing e-learning as well as blended learning. The aim of this paper was to investigate whether students were content with having the Moodle platform as a part of the course English for Specific Purposes. The respondents were the students of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade. The primary objective of this research was to see whether students find e-learning, and the Moodle course in particular, favourable to their learning. Furthermore, we were also eager to hear about their attitudes towards communication with other students and the teacher as well as about their preferable form and way of learning. Finally, we wanted to learn how their self-assessment correlated with their attitudes towards e-learning in order to reach some conclusions for further research.

Internationally there are different requirements for measuring and monitoring health care practice and cross-border clinical placement. However, the quality of the clinical training settings has a significant impact on student experience and knowledge and eventually on the quality of the healthcare services. HealINT4ALL funded by the European Union aims to develop a global prepared health workforce regardless of cultural, political or educational context. Despite the great diversity due to the different needs, resources, regulations etc., there is a clear need for harmonised minimum training requirements especially for healthcare professions and from those benefiting from automatic recognition across the EU such as doctors, nurses and midwives, as reflected by the EU Directive (2013/55/EU). In offering international mobility, universities must ensure that learning environment standards are ethical and commensurate with their own quality assurance processes. For medical professions, demonstrating the quality of clinical practice internationally can be a challenging task. The project will innovatively adapt the newly established audit protocol and support tools to suit the needs of higher education for wider application in learning environments in medical-related professionals. The participatory co-creation methodology involving end-users in workshops to ensure alignment of the digital content with the learning needs of the students is essential to facilitate consistency and assure confidence for all stakeholders in the audit process and its outcomes. In order to facilitate quality assurance, consistency and raise standards of care, a digital interactive audit platform, supported by access to a central database is incrementally developed. The triangulation of the evidence obtained from the mapping exercise of the participating countries, provided the basis for the development of the first part of the digital audit platform.

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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic and the related sanitary rigour pose a great challenge for universities preparing young people to work in medical and medicine-related professions, including the profession of a physiotherapist. It is particularly difficult to conduct placements, during which both students and employees of the institution as well as patients will be provided with maximum safety, but at the same time high standards of education will be maintained. The aim of the study was to assess possible changes in the quality of placements that might have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic and the applicable sanitary regime. Material and methods: The study was conducted in October 2021 among 67 students of physiotherapy at the University of Applied Sciences in Tarnow, Poland. The sample consisted of both women (n = 49) and men (n = 18) who had completed at least one full work placement prior to the outbreak of the pandemic and at least one full work placement during the pandemic. Students voluntarily filled in a purpose-built electronic questionnaire, in which they responded to 20 questions referring the conditions of placements, cooperation with staff, the atmosphere in the institution and the skills acquired there. They determined on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 – has definitely changed in favour, 5 – has definitely changed in an unfavourable way), how professional practices have changed due to the pandemic and the sanitary regime. Students could also add their comments in the form of recommendations aimed at improving the quality of placements. They were invited to do it with the following statement: Provide an example of a practical solution that would help improve the quality of placements. Results: According to the respondents, the most unfavourable changes in the quality of placements caused by the pandemic are: increased stress related to placements, worse conditions for learning how to diagnose and plan therapy, limited opportunities to learn about modern methods of therapy and limited opportunities to work directly with the patient. The respondents also noticed positive changes in the quality of placements. These were the opportunity to work in a small group, a better atmosphere in the institution, more help from the staff and better familiarization with the place of the placement. Conclusions: The pandemic has brought both positive and negative changes in the quality of placements. Monitoring the quality of placements and surveying students’ opinions is a very important tool in improving the quality of education. It is worthwhile to carry out extra quality control studies at times of change to be aware of possible changes in the quality of placements induced by such challenging situations. It was also interesting to notice that students expect some of the changes related to the sanitary regime to persist after the pandemic has ended.

The notion of digital readiness has been attracting more attention in the area of education. It has been caused by the recent shift in educational practices caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper aims to define and investigate the digital readiness of VET schools for digitising teaching, distinguishing areas which need to be supported with additional tools and methodology in the future. To this end, a current situation regarding problems encountered at selected secondary vocational schools was analysed. The paper summarises a study carried out among secondary school teachers in five countries, probing their attitudes and gathering their experiences. It looks into both the technicalities of the educational process (e.g. quality of hardware, reliability of the Internet connection, access to educational software) and the skills involved (e.g. using educational software, the ability to access and adapt online / digital resources, the capacity to introduce new pedagogies and strategies or adapt existing ones). It appeared that the problem areas identified in the process of the study were country depended. However, the most frequently mentioned problems, such as lack of tools that motivate and autonomise students or issues with the hardware and broadband, were shared by teachers from the majority of the partner countries.