ORGANISATION AND FUNCTIONING OF THE HIGH EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS OF THE ISLAMIC COMMUNITY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA DURING COVID 19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

UDK 378.1:28]:004.783  616.98:578.8

Covid 19 pandemic and the measures taken to control its spread have, to a great extent, limited circumstances and mobility of students and teaching staff throughout the world. Consequences of this pandemic are felt in all the segments of society, especially in educational segment which involves the most important part of the population of every state. The research carried out for the purposes of this article is of cross-sectional character and analytical descriptive method was used along with electronic survey. The work of high education institutions of the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FIN/Faculty of Islamc Studies-Sarajevo, IPF/Faculty of Islamic Pedagogy-Zenica and IPF/Faculty of Islamic Pedagogy- Bihać) was analysed. On the bases of the results of this analysis we may say that the high education institutions of the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina answered this challenge successfully and achieved the goals of education through reorganisation and through establishing electronic education wherever it was necessary. Electronic education and distance learning brought about a transformation of pedagogical and methodological approach, resulting in enhancement in competencies of both, university teachers and their students. This experience gained during the Covid-19 pandemic can be used as bases for planning some reforms in the future.