ONLINE TEACHING- LEARNING PRACTICES DURING PANDEMIC: A PERCEPTION OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF B. ED PROGRAMME

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic caused several difficulties for schools, colleges, and universities. Around the world, continuing education is fraught with problems and difficulties for governmental institutions. In addition, they had persistent problems that had an impact on their day-to-day operations during this crisis, such as changes to daily routines, travel limitations, and other problems. Teachers quickly and abruptly embraced digital learning for the teaching-learning process. Online instruction has taken the place of in-person instruction. The present paper focuses on the perception of teachers and students towards online teaching learning activities at the time of Covid pandemic. The researcher had developed a Likert Scale and structured interview questionnaire to explore the perception of teacher educators and students on online teaching learning practices during Covid-19 pandemic. Two five-point Likert Scales (one for teacher educators and one for students) were developed consisting of 12 items each. These tools were sent through Google forms in B. Ed Colleges of GGSIPU in which 202 students and 30 teachers had responded about their perception regarding online teaching learning practices. The responses of teachers’ interview and Likert scale perception is found to be aligned to each other. The teachers have mentioned in interview that they found traditional teaching is better than online teaching which also received high mean average in perception scale. The perception of students was bended towards involving hybrid/blended learning mode in classroom so that they can experience positive features of both online and traditional learning practices.