Polish Students in the Period of COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The aim of the article is to present the situation of Polish students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study, based on the voluntary participation of students, and having a clearly pilot nature was carried out using the selfmade questionnaire consisting of 28 questions, each of them regarding the implementation of the objectives outlined in the study. The study involved 160 full-time and part-time students of state universities embedded in two voivodships with the highest COVID-19 infection rate, i.e. in the Upper Silesia and Mazovia voivodships. Our studies have shown that the COVID19 pandemic time significantly impedes students education and psychophysical functioning. Over 98% of students study remotely at universities. The dominant forms of such education were: e-mailing students with ready-to-study materials and tasks for self-implementation, remote learning platforms such as e-university, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, meet, Classroom, Moodle, Click-Meeting, as well as other distant elearning platforms. For security reasons, libraries operating at the universities were also closed, which significantly hindered students from completing the process of remote education, as none of the universities provided a substitute form of using library collections.