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Abstract

The contemporary COVID-19 pandemic has significantly intensified the informatic sphere of education by forcing e-learning, becoming the most reliable form of health protection and preventing virus spread. Before the pandemic's beginning, an officially determined model of e-learning did not exist in the higher education sector. It was expressed only through indirect communication via e-mail (consultations and material exchange) or through web information bulletin boards. However, during the isolation (summer, 2020), e-learning came to life worldwide and also at the faculties of Sarajevo, thanks to which the summer semester was successfully brought to an end and maintained through the academic year 2020/21, although the practical teaching of certain "more demanding" subjects has yet to be realised in the classroom in compliance with crisis measures. At the University of Sarajevo, most of the faculties switched to classroom teaching at the beginning of the winter semester of the academic year 2021/22, except for part-time students, while as of the beginning of the new year of 2022, all the faculties switched to e-learning. However, the exams for specific subjects are still held in classrooms. E-learning requires considerable efforts for teaching staff and students (preparation of technical equipment, the introduction of a reference platform for the realisation of teaching and exams, mastering the management tools), which initially created certain disapproval and "resistance", but e-learning has been shown to have a series of benefits: electronic materials, easy access, objective results, live communication etc. Research results have shown students' satisfaction with e-learning.