Virtual Teaching Learning Practice And Its Impact On Technical Courses During COVID-19: A Post Pandemic Study

Abstract

Novel Coronavirus Disease (CORONA-19) has enormously changed the traditional education patterns from elementary level to tertiary level and shifted the entire system on virtual platform. Based on Covid-19 and speculations about changes in teaching and learning pedagogies, the study examines the turning point in Indian technical education. To measure the quality of teaching technical courses on virtual mode, a survey  was conducted on a total 551 university students of technical courses.  The paper takes a quantitative as well as a qualitative approach to study the effect of online teaching learning program on technical courses which requires rigorous practical exposure and hands on sessions on equipment and machines with teacher. The data was analysed using structural modelling. The present research study highlights the challenges engineering students experienced during the online instruction during the pandemic period.  During our research, we discovered a number of challenges that had a negative impact on online engineering education. The paper explores the impact of corona virus on engineering education and practices. The research explores that the practice of virtual platform is not effective for the subjects need experiments and hands on sessions.  The result shows that it is very tough for students to concentrate for long hours in online classes and they end up getting frustrated.  The result suggest that the satisfaction with online classless can be achieved as the technical courses require more hands on training sessions with machines and equipment.