University Students' Perspectives on the Rapid Technologization of Education: A Quantitative Research on the Higher Education in Romania

ABSTRACT : In the context of rapid technologization of education after the Covid 19 Pandemic, the Higher Education is facing mixed approaches to the phenomena of embracing technology in their process of education. The study aims at analyzing the students perception of technology in the education system, comparing two major education systems: the physical one with the online based one. The quantitative research was conducted on over 150 students from universities across Romania, both public and private, with the objectives of quantifying the advantages and disadvantages of both systems in the perception of students of economic sciences programs. Plagiarism, evaluation as well as teaching and learning economic sciences subjects were analyzed, the results showing how most of the students 59,6% perceive that learning in an online environment is more efficient, as well as 75.2% of the responders perceiving online education more flexible than the digital one. On the other hand, it is seen how 77.3% of the subjects considered that traditional education improves the social skills better than the online one. This paper contributes to the analysis of the perspective on the rapid technologization of higher education in Romania, in the economic sciences area.