ONLINE TEACHING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC - WERE STUDENTS' EXPECTATIONS MET?

The aim of this paper was to investigate whether the expectations of students were met by teaching them online during (COVID-19) pandemic. Respondent samples were 27 students from course Coach in Sports on Year 2 at Faculty of Sports, University "Union - Nikola Tesla", Belgrade. As an instrument, there had been used an anonymous questionnaire made up of 10 questions. Results showed that more than 85% of students attended more than 50% of online lectures. Although most students, over 70% of them haven't had any online classes taught through an e-platform before this pandemic, most of them (80%) didn't find it difficult to follow through Meet Google platform. Almost 90% of them have graded that all lectures were accompanied by appropriate extra material put on the platform. Most of the students consider that online teaching and using online platforms for studying brings them both an easier and faster approach to relevant information, an individual way of teaching, an active way of studying, and more successful acquisition of new knowledge. More than 90% of students are completely satisfied with the quality of lectures, teaching organization, methods of work, availability of extra material, the relation between professors and administration staff with students. The most common reasons which disabled students from following online courses were the fact that the Internet connection and network didn't function at its best during the state of emergency. Summing up the results of this research, we can certainly prove that students' expectations were met by teaching them online through the period of the pandemic.