Romania suspended in-person courses in schools and universities from March 11-22 due to the coronavirus outbreak. The Ministry of Education encouraged online learning and provided free access to tools like Google Suite and Microsoft Office. Universities also suspended in-person classes and supported online learning. Romania was prepared with online learning infrastructure and experience from previous open education projects. The Ministry of Education and other organizations provided online textbooks, tele-school programs, customized learning management systems, webinars and open educational resources to support remote learning during this time. Universities like West University of Timisoara began moving classes online on March 11 and provided students with resources through platforms like Moodle, Edmodo and Google Classroom to continue their education remotely.

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!