Struggles and Successes of Online Teaching: The Teachers’ Lived Experience

Abstract

The continuous transformation in education brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic includes teaching and learning online. There is a plethora of literature and studies on institutions immediate responses to the abrupt shift from face to face to online teaching and the current context of virtual education. However, to further understand the ground level of teachers’ experiences, this study is conducted. Through Husserlian descriptive phenomenology, higher education teachers from different private and state universities were interviewed to clearly describe their experiences. Based on their narratives, it was found that there were different struggles and areas of successes in their online teaching experiences.  The following emerged as themes (1) struggle in the use of technology, (2) struggle in online classroom management, (3) struggle on Internet connectivity, (4) increase in time management skills, (5) increase technological knowledge, (6) increase in flexibility.