COVID-19 and Online Teaching in the Perspective of University Teacher in Pakistan

Abstract

In Pakistan like the other nations around the world educational sector is highly affected by COVID-19. During this lockdown teachers may help their students to minimise the educational gap. An online survey was conducted from 31 December 2020 to 30 March 2021 to collect the information from teacher of different public and private universities. Descriptive statistics are used to find their attitudes about online education, and challenges  encountered related to e-learning. Around 78 percent of the participants take online classes during the pandemic among them majority (91.3 percent ) of them were staying at home and continuing their online educational support to the students. They could face some problem during the online classes and weak internet connectivity (69.31 percent ) and lack of logistic support (20.13 percent ) were the key problem they faced. Very few (1.6 percent ) of them think the process are not helping the students to bridge the educational gap. This study is helpful for government and the educational authority to find the overall scenario of online education during lockdown from teachers’ point view.