THE POSSIBLE IMPACT OF THE ONLINE LEARNING ON THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN SERBIA DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic of 2020 brought huge changes, leaving unforeseeable consequences for the global economy, the business community and people's lives. It has led many companies to resort to working from home. The pandemic also forced many educational institutions around the world and from the Republic of Serbia to adapt to the new reality by actively implementing electronic teaching. The aim of this paper is to determine whether this new teaching method could have affected the quality of teaching outcomes and educational processes in the country. In the article, Wilcoxon signed rank test was conducted on the grades of a selected sample of 100 students from a higher public school of economics from Serbia in order to determine the size and statistical significance of the difference between median samples, before and after the transition to electronic learning. The results of the analysis showed that the transition to electronic teaching most likely improved the quality of educational processes and results in Serbia, indicating a statistically significant difference between the sample medians. Despite the described limitations of the study, it is possible that this type of teaching has improved the quality, inclusiveness and resilience of educational processes in the country.