Dr. Kakha Shengelia’s, Tengiz Verulava’s and Giorgi Makharashvili’s scientific work Challenges of Distance Learning at Universities during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Georgia was published in the European International Refereed Journal - JOURNAL OF LEARNING FOR DEVELOPMENT.
The journal is indexed in the SCOPUS international scientific database, CiteScoreTracker 2022 - 1.5.
The shift to distance learning, which is one of the most effective ways of combating the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to many challenges for society and the economy.
The paper examines the impact of the pandemic on distance learning from the perspectives of students and teachers. The majority of respondents prefer a hybrid of distance and classroom learning methods because it takes into account the uniqueness of individual subjects as well as the possibility of students' own choices.
As shortcomings, limited communication, technical difficulties, low quality Internet access and malfunctions, and complicated social relationships were mentioned.
