Authors:

Asha Brahmakshatriya, Vishwa Dave, Isha Rana, Vishakha Makvana

Abstract:

The COVID-19 pandemic has phenomenally affected education systems in India and all over the world.  To combat COVID-19, lockdown was imposed on March 25, 2020 (India); which has forced to transform curriculum into an online format, which is a challenge for all the educational process participants including teachers and students. It has changed the traditional education system to the educational technologies, where teaching and assessments are conducted online.

For the research purpose, personal interview with faculties and management took place. As well as, faculties of various self-financed colleges were approached for questionnaire, from which, 26 responses have been considered for the research purpose. They were asked to respond to several sets of questions describing their online teaching experience after the launch of online education amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis of the participant’s answers helped to identify the following main challenges experienced by university teachers: computer literacy level, the university electronic environment and support, academic staff readiness for online teaching and assessment of different home environment settings for teachers.

Keywords:

COVID-19 pandemic; electronic educational environment; online education 

Vol & Issue:

VOL.14, ISSUE No.Special Issue 1, january 2022