Online Education in Hungary and Armenia during the Pandemic and Its Aftermath

Abstract

After the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic our lives have been profoundly
changed, including higher education, where a digital form has emerged as a result.
This paper presents some of the results of nearly two and a half years of research
conducted in two countries. The first objective was to analyse the experience of
the transition to digital education, digital competencies and equipment of staff
during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the second was to summarise the impact of
the alternatives to digital education at universities after the pandemic. It was also
aimed at describing how digital education at the universities of these two countries
with very different cultures has been tackled and whether the experiences are
different. The research was carried out by means of a questionnaire including 592
instructors from Hungary and 111 from Armenia. The researchers analysed the
data using SPSS 28 statistical software. Univariate and multivariate analyses were
conducted, including frequency, mean and standard deviation tests, cross-
tabulation analysis, ANOVA, independent samples t-test, and correlation. analyse
The current study suggests that the two culturally different countries did not have
completely different practices, and also the smoothness of the transition to digital
education has a major impact on how digital solutions are integrated into
university education in the two countries in the future. To conclude, the pandemic
induced the emergence of online education, which is here to stay with us in the
future to supplement traditional, offline forms.
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