Impact Of COVID-19 On Student Learning: Opportunities, Barriers And Outcomes

Abstract

The impact of pandemic (COVID-19) has been observed in every sector all over the world. The education sector in India as well as the world is largely affected by this. It had enforced worldwide lockdown creating a lot of challenges to the students’ life. Around 32 crore learners were effected and they couldn’t attend colleges/schools and all educational activities halted. The outbreak of COVID-19 has taught us that change is inevitable. It has worked as a catalyst for the educational institutional to grow and adopt technology based platforms of digital learning that have not been used before. There has been a shift from traditional methods of teaching and learning to online learning. This study is aimed at depicting the impact of COVID-19 on student learning and associated opportunities, barriers and outcomes of the pandemic. The main concerns of this paper are to find out both positive and negative aspects of the pandemic on student learning in addition to suggesting some remedial measures. It unfolds the difficulties encountered while using online learning platforms, skills developed while studying during pandemic, interaction and communication with teachers, students’ opinion on online education considering the experience during Covid-19 pandemic as well as the satisfaction of the learners with present way of teaching (i.e online mode). It also recognises the perceived advantages and disadvantages of online education. For achieving the purpose of this study, questionnaire made in Google forms was used. The data was collected from students of University of Jammu, Union Territory of J&K, India, by simple random sampling.