Temporary emergency and learning change in modern higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: the attitudes of nursing students

The current situation in the world’s universities is distance/remote/online/virtual teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. There was no massive distance teaching and learning practice before the pandemic. Therefore, it can be argued that the scientific sources analyzing distance teaching and learning were designed to discuss and analyze the experiences and attitudes of technology enthusiasts and visionaries. The aim of this article is to discuss forced innovations in online education models, and to reveal the experiences and attitudes of first-year students in the university nursing study program towards communication on the university intranet and virtual learning environment (VLE). The article presents a case study. The students’ perspective is relevant today as it can help highlight activities that are acceptable for VLE students. This can serve in the future for the development of the qualitatively new learning environments for students. Introduction. The COVID-19 pandemic emergency affected all human activities. Not an exception is the education system, which is related to the economic situation of the states, the labor market, and innovations in the society. The listed aspects can be called external aspects. The internal aspects, i.e., sudden change during the pandemic, the challenges of online teaching and learning, the experience of universities in the field of online teaching and learning, can be analyzed and applied in the future for the development of education systems. The pandemic has radically changed people’s lives and activities. This is a temporary emergency, but experts in various fields of science are already predicting significant changes in various areas of people's lives.[...].