THE IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

The period of the pandemic was clearly stressful for almost all areas of daily life. While the area of the school education system, primary, secondary and higher education, is in the media's crosshairs almost every day, the extensive area of further education has mostly gone unnoticed. The fact is that we found ourselves in a new, specific situation that we were not prepared for. As far as it was possible, school education switched to another form (e-learning, distance learning, etc.), but this option was not always possible for material reasons. The introduction of online teaching was not only for schools and teachers, but also for students. There was a need for contact between teachers and students, access to information and additionally flexible professional support for the teacher. The aim of the contribution is to supplement the comparison of the individual waves of the pandemic from the point of view of education at the Department of Technology and Information Technologies, Faculty of Pedagogy of the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra.