Edukacja zdalna realizowana w czasach kryzysu, wprowadzana w sposób nagły, bez uprzedniego przygotowania nauczycieli akademickich i uczelni, stanowiła dla wszystkich wykładowców nowe, nierzadko trudne doświadczenie. Konieczność korzystania z własnego sprzętu i domowego dostępu do internetu oraz brak czasu na przygotowanie realizowanych zajęć adekwatnie do wymogów technicznych i merytorycznych dydaktyki zdalnej sprawiły, że jakość edukacji uzależniona była od kompetencji i pomysłowości poszczególnych wykładowców. Proces nauczania utrudniał także brak gotowości studentów do podjęcia nauki w trybie zdalnym. Doświadczenia związane z kryzysową edukacją zdalną stały się udziałem nauczycieli akademickich większości uczelni, w których dotychczas taki tryb nauczania stanowił niewielki procent aktywności dydaktycznej. Celem podjętych w tym artykule analiz było poznanie i porównanie doświadczeń związanych z kryzysową edukacją zdalną zdobytych przez nauczycieli akademickich z dwóch uczelni, polskiej i ukraińskiej.

Abstract-This article is a report on the research on the perception of e-learning conducted among students of the first year of full-time studies at the Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw who were participating in the information technology course. The aim of this study was to evaluate the e-learning course of Windows Live Movie Maker program intended to create movies prepared by the author and to gather the opinions of students on e-learning. The author presents the most popular model for creating e-learning courses and suggests programs in which teachers can create their training. The author acknowledges a course he created as well received by students and advocates the implementation of this method of teaching in academic education.

Author analyses the use of new technologies by the pedagogy students from the generation of digital natives focusing on using the functions of mobile electronic devices and basic functions of Internet. Data has been collected with Google Forms. They allow to collect the data very quick, to see the responses immediately and to export the data to a spreadsheet. The aim of the study is to determine the level of student’s competence on the chosen field of information technology. Research shows that students have lower skills than they declare. Author advocates that this situation needs to be improved.

The article presents the results of a research questionnaire conducted among students and lecturers after the first, and repeated after the second, exam session during the pandemic crisis as this was the first time the examinations were conducted by distance education at The Maria Grzegorzewska University (Warsaw, Poland). Lecturers see the advantages of remote examination in the technological possibilities of conducting examinations (automation in checking and assessing the tests and archiving the results), time savings (immediate availability of results, flexibility of examination dates), and organizational improvements. Students indicate the comfort of writing the exam in a friendly environment, which reduces stress, and appreciate the possibility of obtaining results quickly and the need to spend less time on the exam itself. In the case of disadvantages of remote exams, lecturers indicate a lack of control over the independence and integrity of students, and students complain about the stringent time constraints, distractors and stress, as well as the level of the exam (both higher and lower compared to the level of traditional exams) and the adequacy of the grades obtained. Both groups consider technical problems that arise during the exam to be severe. Twenty percent of students admit to using unauthorized assistance during tests and exams. Academic teachers try to reduce the dependence of students by choosing an appropriate form of the exam (problem tasks, oral exams, open-ended questions, test variants), using special strategies (comparing students’ work, control questions, looking for parts of final papers on the Internet), and using technical solutions (requirement of turning on the camera, checking the metadata of files, the need to document work). The search for an effective and appropriate method of verification of learning outcomes is ongoing.

Artykuł przybliża sylwetkę Mariusza Zaruskiego jako autora idei wychowania morskiego młodzieży w Polsce, wskazuje jego pionierskie działania na rzecz rozwoju żeglarstwa oraz prezentuje współczesnych kontynuatorów jego myśli.