Challenges of the transition to the on-line educational process during the pandemic

Education has changed enormously during the Covid-19 virus pandemic. It has changed at all levels of education, including the university level. In reorganizing their educational process, educational institutions had to take into account a number of actions and recommendations from the government and the epidemiological profession, as well as their available technological and human resources. During the first wave of the pandemic, when the new situation was solved in an ad hoc manner, improvisation was a normal response, while after this period a more organized response was expected. Educational institutions invested heavily in a technology platform for online teaching, benefiting from numerous government grants, and also used all their existing equipment. Great emphasis was also placed on staff training, particularly on strengthening their digital literacy skills, which are essential for the implementation of online education. However, there were many other challenges, mainly in the sociological and psychological fields, as exclusion could not be solved for all, online work and study segregate us and do not provide real human contact, which learners in particular desperately need, etc. The research was related to higher education in the wood sector in Slovenia. © 14th International Scientific Conference WoodEMA 2021 - The Response of the Forest-Based Sector to Changes in the Global Economy, Proceedings. All rights reserved.