Impact of Online Classes on Students, Teachers and Parents: A Study

Abstract

India is fighting with a pandemic called Corona virus disease which is known as covid-19 from the end of 2019. Thus, India has been declared covid-19 outbreak as a prevailing disease in all its States and Union Territories because of the absence of proper medication and vaccination for the treatment of covid-19.  The pandemic made government of India to impose lockdown in the country for the first time from 25th March 2020 to break the chain diffusion of corona virus. Due to the lockdown all educational institutions were adopted online teaching method in the place of traditional education system by the guidelines of government of India. Therefore, there is a need to analyse the impact of online teaching in various perspectives.  This paper focuses on the key aspects relating to online teaching by considering and assessing multiple parameter such as different environmental settings of students, (like understanding capabilities, satisfaction, quality of instruction, performance and problems of the students), teachers (performance of the students and barriers faced by teachers) and finally satisfaction of the parents. To assess the influence of teaching via online mode; on students, teacher and parents an online survey was carried out. The study followed simple sampling method to select the respondents i.e. students along with parents and teachers who are studying and working in the government universities of Andhra Pradesh in India. The study is qualitative in its manner, the data acquired through semi-organized interviews, examined using qualitative data analysis strategies, and data presented using frequency tables.