6 th International Scientifc Conference ITEMA 2022 – Proceedings DOI: https://doi.org/10.31410/ITEMA.2022.63 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7928-7467 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6409-4005 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8629-6719 Usage of E-platforms Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom in Education Anton Vorina 1 Nikolina Vrcelj 2 Vuk Bevanda 3 Keywords: Online teaching; Google Meet; Microsoft teams; Zoom Abstract: The crisis caused by COVID-19 has forced educational institu- tions to use electronics for educational purposes and thus to digitize the entire process of lectures as well as exams and other school activities. Dis- tance learning is, of course, welcome at a time when it is necessary to lim- it oneself socially as much as possible to help curb the spread of infections. But everything has both good and bad sides and e-learning is no exception. Rapid changes in this area required even faster adaptation by teachers, pro- fessors, or lecturers, as well as pupils and students. The latter, already born in the age of electronics and accustomed to drastic innovations in this feld, probably had fewer problems with this. The purpose of the research is to identify the advantages and disadvantages of e-learning observed by users. The research will be limited to three of the most widespread e-meeting pro- grams. These are Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Assuming that these are the three most used programs, the satisfaction of the users of these programs is also an important issue in the research. Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 4.0 License (https://creative- commons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduc- tion and distribution of the work without further permission. 1. INTRODUCTION W ith the development of technology, online education has become increasingly popular around the world since 2013 (although it is still not the most popular method), and the COV- ID-19 crisis has further accelerated the digitization and use of electronics in education. Despite the ever-faster unfolding and more frequent use of electronic tools for learning purposes, in most cas- es, they were only an additional element, a diversifcation of the classical form of education. How- ever, the current global situation has forced educational institutions to use exclusively e-learning. Teaching methods and student habits have completely changed. E-learning is not just about mov- ing the physical classroom to the virtual. There is much more. It is about adapting the traditional system to new technologies, opportunities, values, needs and, last but not least, events in the feld of economy. For efective e-learning, we must therefore adapt the entire model, not just the equip- ment or space. E-learning plays an important role in the development of future educational mod- els, and systems. Which, in fact, is somehow sensible or necessary in the age of digitalization. All over the world, we are robotizing production, digitizing homes, and gadgets, and increasingly de- veloping advanced smart devices, so it is high time we took a step forward in the feld of education as well. E-learning also ofers the possibility of abandoning methods based primarily on memori- zation and mechanical training. The new form of learning emphasizes the importance of encour- aging students to actively participate and research, to independently search for and process infor- mation, to analyze and solve problems, and to communicate and cooperate efectively. It encour - ages students to think more actively, participate more actively and be more independent. The de- velopment of students is at the forefront and not so much the subject itself. As e-learning takes advantage of modern technologies, it consequently eliminates time and space constraints. One of the advantages of this is the possibility of choosing the learning environment of each individual 1 Celje School of Economics, Higher Vocational College, Slovenia 2 Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans, Belgrade, Serbia 3 Faculty of Social Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia Received: November 15, 2022 Accepted: January 18, 2023 Published: June 12, 2023