THE CHALLENGE OF WORKING ONLINE IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN TIMES OF COVID 19 – A PSYCHO-DIDACTIC APPROACH.

The pandemic context, that went off a year ago, has compelled all of us to adopt a new mode of working and communicating. The universities, at least in Romania, had to pass overnight to working exclusively online, which triggered changes at the level of interhuman relationships and behaviours of the students and teachers, as well as a transformation of the teaching and learning strategies. From a face-to-face type of instruction, where the activities mediated by technology had only a relatively limited place, to a kind of activity unfolding fully online, to which the types of teaching activities and techniques had to be adapted, as well as the learning ones. These are the two main aspects that we are going to approach in this paper, by analysing the challenges of working online in the higher education, from the point of view of the behaviour as to information, transmission of knowledge, creation of the know-how, as well as be-how, and from the viewpoint of the new student-teacher relationships. The analysis will focus on the teaching – learning strategies within the Covid-19 pandemic conditions, i.e. a fully online type of education, imposed by the special sanitary conditions, with a strong psychological impact, and not on the general didactic principles of turning digital, which have already been in current practice, in a sporadic manner, for some time now. We are going to study equally the interdependence relationship between the social, economic and psychological context, and the changing of the working methods with the students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]