PMTS students during Covid-19 outbreak: a survey

After the outbreak of the pandemic, the Master’s Course in Planning and Management Systems of the University of Bergamo continued teaching activities with on-line classes and workshops. In a very short period, students and professors had to adapt to a new way of communicating, mainly based on an on-line platform for hosting meetings or live events, with various possibilities for students to interact with professors (for example, chats, webcam and microphones, and screen sharing). In order to understand their reactions to such a new situation in their lives and their learning, students participated in an internal survey, the results of which are analysed in this chapter. The response rate was very good, with 96 students completing the survey – half from first year and the other half from second year. Eighty per cent of respondents were from Italy and twenty per cent from many other countries, including Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, India, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam, which provided a very good representation of many cultural backgrounds and approaches.