Paper—Perception of Selected Aspects of Online Learning by Czech Higher Education Students Perception of Selected Aspects of Online Learning by Czech Higher Education Students https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v12i5.32243 Katarína Krpálková Krelová 1() , Kateřina Berková 1 , Pavel Krpálek 1 , Andrea Kubišová 2 1 Prague University of Economics and Business, Prague, Czech Republic 2 College of Polytechnics Jihlava, Jihlava, Czech Republic katarina.krelova@vse.cz Abstract—The study is based on an analysis of real educational processes in the period 2020–2021, when the most signifcant pandemic waves of Covid-19 were recorded in the Czech Republic. In relation to this, the study aims to iden- tify the views of 968 students on the changed conditions of education and the perception of selected aspects of the transition to online learning by respondents from two higher education institutions in the Czech Republic, the frst of which is focused on humanities and the second specializes in economics studies. The research is aimed at discovering students’ attitudes towards the form of distance education forced on them by the relevant circumstances, the use of individual components of distance education to support teaching originally designed for the in-person form, the level and effectiveness of the use of information technologies in online learning and the potential of hybrid learning. For a greater degree of analyticity, a combined research model based on both quantitative and qualitative research has been chosen. Aspects of online learning that could be employed as complementary tools in the full-time conventional study mode have been identi- fed. Students of economics can better visualize the inclusion of online learning in the full-time conventional study mode. Master level students are critical of online learning. The results have been used to design and empirically validate appropriate learning strategies with refection on current student needs. Keywords—online learning, distance education, economics and humanities study programmes, digital competence, higher education institution 1 Introduction The Covid-19 pandemic brought numerous problems in connection with the forced rapid transition from in-person to distance education, which had not been prepared in systematic terms in advance. Digitalization in education and online teaching in the academic environment suddenly became a necessary reality for all teachers, all study programmes and all subjects of study, regardless of their conception, content, form and teaching methodology, instead of an often rather formal fashionable trend. User- friendly synchronous and asynchronous platforms for online learning started to be 4 http://www.i-jep.org