Evaluating Online Teaching During COVID-19 Through Faculty Perceptions - An Empirical Study

Abstract

The world crippled due to Corona outbreak, and everything came to standstill. The implementation of lockdown and social distancing completely paralyzed the global activities. Entire education system all over the world, shifted from traditional face to face learning to online teaching-learning method as a panacea during the time of crisis. “We are in this together - We will get through this together “was the positive thought of every teacher and student, when the suspension of in-campus activities and transmission to online education was declared in all educational institution in almost all countries, as part of the curfew measures taken to curb the Covid -19 Pandemic.This paper makes an attempt to identify holistic picture of whether transition to online teaching was successful, highlighting the pros and cons of online teaching during Covid-19 through the perceptions of teachers of Mangalore. The paper employs both quantitative and qualitative approach. An online survey was conducted. The findings from the study suggest that, though pandemic utterly disrupted an education system, the pros-online teaching, being the only option for continuation of academic activities was whole-heartedly adopted by dedicated teachers and it overweighed the cons, especially in current global scenario. Though overnight shift to online teaching was not easy and face to face with virtual blended interaction was preferred the most.