Korišćenje elektronske knjige u vreme zdravstvene krize od strane studenata učiteljskih i pedagoških fakulteta Zapadnog Balkana

Abstract

The closure of educational and cultural institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to changes in the traditional teaching model and the transition to online teaching. Since access to textbooks and professional literature was significantly difficult in completely new conditions, the resources of information and communication technologies were included in the teaching process, among which the e-book took an important place. The authors examine the experiences of students of teacher training faculties and faculties of education (N = 394) in relation to (a) the use of e-book for study purposes; (b) the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of e-book for study purposes and (c) the factors that initiated the use of e-book. Research results show that two thirds of the respondents use this book format. According to the experience of more than a third of students, the current health crisis has contributed to the use of e-books to a greater extent than before, while a quarter of the respondents were motivated to start using it. The use of e-books was initiated mostly under the influence of professors and by independent internet search. Future class teachers and preschool teachers from the Western Balkans are open to the use of modern technologies, and the current pandemic has intensified the use of e-books for the purpose of their education, which has contributed to overcoming the dif- ficulties caused by the health crisis, as well as to gaining competence in efficient work with future generations of readers of various forms of text.