UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GOOGLE MEET PLATFORM IN TEACHING PROCESS UPON THE BREAKOUT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

During the Covid-19 pandemic, a lot of higher education institutions resorted to the Google Meet platform in order to facilitate the transfer from a traditional to online teaching process. Accordingly, there is an increase interest in the issues concerning the platform’s efficiency, its advantages and downsides, as well as the level of acceptance by crucial actors – students and staff members. This research aims at providing answers regarding the attitudes of students of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Nis (Serbia) towards implementation of the platform in question. In this respect, the research features the descriptive method, with the sample consisting of 211 students from various departments of the University. The instrument used in the research is a 5-point Likert scale, and the results show that students are mostly undetermined concerning the implementation of this platform, as well as that there are no statistically significant differences as regards independent variables of the research – sex, year of study, average grade, and department, except for certain items in the questionnaire.