(Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, etc.), email, etc. The internally displaced students had to adjust themselves
both to new technical and academic requirements. IDSs who changed affiliation had to adapt to new
curriculum, new rules and processes of assessment, testing and examination.
Despite some difficulties IDSs experienced while adapting to new online learning platforms, online learning
technologies themselves facilitated students’ adaptation to new learning and living conditions. The positive
impact of online learning technologies on teaching and learning internally displaced students is evidenced
by international studies (Gillett-Swan, 2017; Lwin & Sungtong, 2022; Bawa & Bayaro, 2017). Though the
above studies were conducted in different contexts and were not related to the war in Ukraine, we can
trace the common features: accessibility, flexibility, mobility, larger academic freedom of internally
displaced students, etc.
4. Conclusions
Adaptation of internally displaced students is a complex process that can be successful only in the case of
creating supporting learning environment and favorable conditions for living and learning. The study
revealed that most difficulties in adaptation of internally displaced students for new living and learning
conditions are caused mainly by psychological problems, as well as the peculiarities of the surrounding
environment, in particular – communicative. Also, the findings of the study proved that to achieve the
successful adaptation of internally displaced students to learning in new academic environment, the whole
range of academic and social programs should be implemented. In this context online learning technologies
are a powerful tool that contributed to continuous studying process of internally displaced students, the
intensification of their academic mobility, ensuring international standards for the high quality of
educational services and gaining international experience in the academic field.
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