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Traditional pre-university education in Romania has been replaced by online and hybrid education during the COVID-19 pandemic, carried out on a series of online educational platforms and using information technologies. So, the educational process turned into a distance education and through virtual communication. Taking as a starting point the research published worldwide about e-learning and the hybrid model, we present and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of online and hybrid education at pre-university level, with reference to the subject of Geography. To achieve our goal, we conducted a literature review on articles dealing with traditional pre-pandemic pre-school education and the online and hybrid model during the pandemic, taking into account our personal teaching experience on the subject, as well as the perception of our students. The present study is an attempt to comparatively evaluate the three teaching-learning models from the students' perspective through an analysis of an online questionnaire applied at two schools in Romania, identifying the effects and solutions. The results indicated similarities and differences between them and the fact that the benefits of traditional, online and hybrid education are when using appropriate teaching strategies and reveal that certain students have been affected by the new teaching-learning models used during the pandemic crisis.