DIGITAL RESILIENCE IS THE NEW NORMAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION: STUDENT AND TEACHER PERCEPTIONS FROM ROMANIA

This paper aims to emphasize the fact that digital technologies in higher education are a necessity, both teachers and students must develop their ability to adapt and deal with informational technology challenges. Data collection was carried out through the administration of two online questionnaires, addressed both to students and teachers from the Faculty of Law and Economics, Spiru Haret University, in December 2021. The students shared their personal experience regarding distance learning in relation to the classical system (in classroom). Second questionnaire measures the frequency of teaching-learning methods, the ways of organizing the teaching materials existing in the eLearning platform, the media resources, evaluation methods used in teaching activities at distance and perceptions regarding some issues related with eLearning implementation. Based on the results, the authors highlighted that the online education process cannot be achieved through a simple translation of the didactic activity from the classroom to the virtual environment. The preparation of didactic materials for eLearning system requires more time and digital skills and special protection of intellectual property rights. The sanitary crisis accelerated the digitization of education, so that students are already aware of the advantages of E-Learning, but some disadvantages of this system can only be combated through blended learning

Aspects Regarding the Financing of Higher Education Institutions

In spite of its universally recognized importance, the literature reveals that higher education in most countries (and Romania is not an exception) is suffering from increasing austerity traced to some combination of rising costs and stating and even diminishing revenues. So it is obviously that we need some changes in the financing systems of higher education, systems that not to affect the quality of the educational services, moreover to be a support for them. This paper presents an analytical view of the other countries’ experience in the matter of financing higher education institutions from the cost sharing perspective, in order to offer solutions for Romanian higher education managers. Our work offers a new perspective and a point of discussions over the changes which must to be made in financing of public higher education system. The paper also reveals the advantages and limits of some of the methods used worldwide and, most of all, affirms the necessity of the implication of all stake-holders in financing higher education.higher education, public funding, fees