For the last decades University educators tried to find the ways to introduce various kinds of online learning and teaching in higher education. Researchers and practical instructors tried to analyze the advantages and drawbacks of these education, to create different tasks and educational trajectories to attract learners and teachers to a wider use of modern information communication technologies in educational environment. In 2019 the situation in the world has changed so greatly, that the higher education had to move online. All seminars, lectures, exams, the presentations of diplomas and graduation thesis had to be held online. All participants of higher educational institutions, namely, managers, instructors, researchers, and, naturally, students faced many challenges in the frames of this new educational reality. Apparently, the main goal of a University is to teach and train students. So, the question of how comfortable they feel under the new imposed conditions, how effective and efficient the education is in lockdown is of primary importance. To settle these questions a survey among the students at Law Institute RUDN University was held. The goal of this paper is to present the output of this survey and make some finding that might be useful for the perspective.
Keywords: online education, modern challenges, imposed educational environment, lockdown.