Online Learning at the Time Of Covid 19: Pre-Service Teachers Reflections

Abstract

The most unintended consequences faced during pandemic COVID-19 is closure of traditional classes and continuation of the online classes. PST’s perception towards learning  at the time of COVID-19 was the outstanding part in this study.  Many studies explored how online education has influenced the improvement of student performance. However the study conclude that to meet the diverse learning community an alternative approach is needed. Therefore the study identifies the research questions to know the perception of PST’s and  documents their reflections towards online education. The PST’s of  II Semester 47 students from IGNTU were selected as sample, research questions in EDMODO-LMS platform were distributed and their reflection towards the use of online education during the crisis was documented (List et al., 2020).  The study identifies that there is a lacunae exist between the students who were distributed geographically in different location and their social-economic conditions also influences their performances. However the study also locates the reasons why some of them do less interaction is due to lack of electronic gadgets, network and internet facility were all deprived in this scenario. Therefore the study learns that how to meet the demand of the all students who were in crisis COVID-19 period and along with online education there was a need for hybrid class were students can improve their performance. Therefore the paper also ends with the suggestion of an alternative learning process to use the Blended Learning Approach.