International Journal of Education and Management Engineering (IJEME)
IJEME Vol. 10, No. 5, 8 Oct. 2020
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A Critical Review by Teachers on the Online Teaching-Learning during the COVID-19
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Author(s)
Malik Mubasher Hassan
1,*
Tabasum Mirza
2
Mirza Waseem Hussain
2
Index Terms
Online Teaching-Learning, ICT, and COVID-19
Abstract
The world has witnessed a sudden change in the teaching-learning processes due to the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19. The worldwide compulsive lockdown for ensuring the preventive measures to stop the spread of this infection has equally affected education sector as other business sectors. As all of us know that quality education is the only long-term rescue for all the challenges and therefore, the need to find out the alternative solution to the traditional classroom teaching-learning is the concern of all stakeholders and the only option found is online mode of teaching-learning, which was somehow already available and had attracted an intense attention during this period. The aim of the paper is to study the teacher’s perspective in India about this mode of learning, challenges and issues faced by them in migration to online platform, experience about online tools/platforms used for instructional delivery and their suggestions to improve the process for effective teaching. This study will help in gaining insight towards the possible improvements in the ongoing mode of online teaching and in future situations also. The results obtained based on sample collection through web based questionnaire clearly gives some information, which could be an eye opener for enhancing the implementation of the online teaching-learning among the learners especially teachers, who can further help in implementation of the large. Although, the online mode was already in place and was utilized in blended form to a substantial level in the developed countries, but in developing countries like India, where teachers are not familiar with online platforms/tools, lack of knowledge and skills to handle the online ICT infrastructure in a challenging situation. The results also give an impression about the need of professional development with special focus on digital literacy skills and awareness among the teacher community about the merits of online platforms for the teaching-learning process.
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Malik Mubasher Hassan, Tabasum Mirza and Mirza Waseem Hussain. " A Critical Review by Teachers on the Online Teaching-Learning during the COVID-19 ", International Journal of Education and Management Engineering (IJEME), Vol.10, No.5, pp.17-27, 2020. DOI: 10.5815/ijeme.2020.05.03
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