Volume 18, No. 6, 2021
A Study On Impact Of Virtual Classes On Students’ Performance Due To COVID-19
Sonia Gouri , Shweta Singh , Himanshi Chaudhary , Dr. Manish Bhardwaj , Pranit Puri
Abstract
Covid-19 has affected the life of everyone in one or another sense. In fact, this pandemic has locked all the commercial and normal activities of people around the world. Education sector is also not untouched from the effects of this disease. It will have been more than one year since last March 2020 when the first lockdown was announced by Prime minister Shri Narendra Modi. As a precaution schools and higher education institutions were also locked and the teaching-learning process had to shift on virtual platforms overnight. In India, where the concept of blended learning has emerged in the last few years, all the teachers were not aware, trained and prepared for virtual classes. They had to struggle a lot with the technical glitches of conducting classes virtually. In present study, an effort has been made to analyze the impact of virtual classrooms on under graduating engineering students during Covid-19. A survey was done online with the help of a questionnaire by using a cluster and simple random sampling method for assessing impact of virtual classes during this pandemic. Then the findings were ascribed to various reasons like availability of proper devices, technical glitches, net connectivity, sharing of space at home with siblings and working parents. Obtained data revealed that even if virtual classes are the only way out during this pandemic, students are facing lots of issues in this situation. The result revealed the impact of virtual classes on students during this pandemic.
Pages: 1771-1780
Keywords: COVID-19, Virtual Classroom, Students, blended learning.