დისტანციური განათლების გამოწვევები თბილისის საჯარო და კერძო სკოლებში

Distance learning is a form of teaching, which allows pupils and teachers to transfer learning-teaching to “digital” or “nondigital” platforms. It might be as Synchronous, Asynchronous and blended type of model. Its choice based on the desires and abilities of the students and teachers. Flexibility of this teaching represents for the positive side of distance learning. It can be taken at any time and place. With this teaching, it is also possible to decrease time and transportation costs.
In the conditions of the pandemic, the countries of the world faced with despair, to abandon learning and think about the unpredictable future, Spontaneously, distance learning was chosen. It is noteworthy that, Georgia also joined this situation. Since 16 March, Georgian schools stage-by stage move to distance learning model. In the initial days, there were not any central instructions by the government and schools with their human resources (teachers) managed, that face-to-face teaching transfer into the virtual world, so as to consider the national curricula.
It is noteworthy that students and teachers encountered certain kinds of problems during the course of this teaching. In particular, they did not have the Internet and the appropriate equipment in order to carry out teaching-learning.
It is significant to mention that Georgia has little experience in distance learning and this experience helped the education system to ensure teaching- learning process and overall, the semester was successful. Because of this interesting topic, we decided to write our master thesis, on the challenges of distance education in Tbilisi public and private Schools.
The aim of our research was to investigate the effectiveness and challenges of distance learning in selected schools.
The objectives of research are:
• To determine teachers' and pupils' readiness for distance learning, understanding their vision in terms of the difficulties and challenges of the issue.
• To determine the degree of student involvement.
• To determine the effectiveness of distance learning.
• To define the degree of satisfaction with the distance learning process
Research hypothesis is: The level of quality of students' learning decreases with distance learning.
We used so quantitative as qualitative methods for the study.
The results of the study revealed a number of problems. These problems were observed not only in students, also with teachers and in some cases, with parents.