presentation during the "How to Keep Students Learning during Schools Disruption in COVID-19 Situation" event, organized by the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University.

1. Romania and online learning during the
coronavirus outbreak
Gabriela Grosseck and Carmen Holotescu

2. instnsp.maps.arcgis.com/apps, worldometers.info/coronavirus
Current situation
Ministry of Education and Research – 10 March
• courses in all the schools are suspended (11-22 March)
• encourages the online courses and support for learning:
 Google and Microsoft free suites
 Teleschool with Romanian Television
• teachers will continue activities in schools - concers
• universities have autonomy for their decisions
Universities – 10 March
• suspended also the f2f courses (11-22 March); those with
foreign students - 2 weeks before (universities from Timisoara, Arad,
Cluj-Napoca)
• support for online courses
edu.ro

3. Online learning
exemplary mobilization & collaboration of Ministry,
teachers, students, parents, society
Romania was not found unprepared, having infrastructure, also the
experience of Open Education projects and movement
G.Grosseck, C.Holotescu, D.Andone – OERs in Romania, Springer chapter, 2020
Ministry of Education and
• Digital textbooks - manuale.edu.ro
• G Suite for Education, Office 365 - clasaviitorului.ro
• TeleSchool – Romanian TV - tvrplus.ro/live/tvr-2
• Customized Moodle, online materials, webinars,
OER directory - educred.ro
Online communities exchanging best practices
• CRED community - facebook.com/Proiectul-CRED-
265274661062902
• Coalition for OER - facebook.com/groups/REDRomania
andateleteacher.blogspot.com

4. Online learning
Open courses for students
• hubproedus.ro - project of Bucharest
City Halls
• kidibot.ro
• dacobots.com
• digitaliada.ro
Open courses for teachers
• iteach.ro
• suntprofesor.ro
• oerup.eu
LMSs and MOOC platforms
• reteauaedu.ro
• unicampus.ro
• digitaliada.ro
• https://west-university-timisoara.teachable.com/
Directories for OERs
• digitaledu.ro
• forum.portal.edu.ro
• didactic.ro
• dascali.ro
• scoaladinvaliza.ro
Guides
• edupedu.ro
• inaco.ro/ghidul-inaco-pentru-scolari
• facebook.com/CoronaCastRomania
Other best practices

5. Babes-Bolyia University, Cluj, ubbcluj.roUniversity of Bucharest, unibuc.roPolitehnica University Timisoara, upt.ro
Universities in Romania start to suspend courses amid
coronavirus concerns
West University of Timisoara,uvt.ro
Politehnica University Timisoara, upt.ro

6. https://masuripreventie.uvt.ro/ WUT Students’ Union, osut.ro
Started 11 March 2020 West University of Timisoara is
moving to online learning amid coronavirus concerns

7. edmodo.comGoogle Classroom
Moodle - elearning.e-uvt.ro

8. MOOC - teachable.com
Open Educational Resources // MOOCs

9. Thank you for your attention!
assoc. prof. dr. Gabriela Grosseck
Department of Psychology
West University of Timisoara
gabriela.grosseck@e-uvt.ro
prof. univ. dr. ing. Carmen Holotescu
Dean of Faculty of Computer
Sciences
Ioan Slavici University Timisoara
carmen.holotecu@islavici.ro
Stay safe!