Journalism Students Attitudes towards Online Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic

One of the global challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has posed, is the transition to an online learning format. The goal of this research is to show the results of study, how effective online learning was during the corona pandemics. The research was conducted in 8 Journalism schools of Georgian Universities and on the whole, 174 students participated. This representative study included 3 state and 5 private universities and quota selection was carried out--22 students participated from each university. This survey was conducted using Google forms from 20 August 2021 till 20 December 2021. The main research questions were: how effective is online learning? what are the advantages and the disadvantages of full online learning? And would you like to use online learning after the end of pandemic? As the research revealed, a large number of students negatively evaluate online learning, especially in practical journalism courses, and prefer face-to-face learning. [For the full proceedings, see ED631133.]