7th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies (ICTCS-2022) will be held at Chandigarh, India - 9th - 10th December.
Authors - Smita Wagholikar, Arti Chandani Abstract - Year 2020 will be written in history as the pandemic year with the outbreak of Covid-19 in 2019 followed by crisis and stress across the globe, leaving a mark in the history of mankind. We have been witnessing, shock after shock, with new variants threatening again and again to world-wide economies. The institutes and universities were forced to close to avoid spread of the decease and had to shift from physical and offline learning to online learning and teaching mode. Educational Institutes, teachers, students and even parents could not fathom how could this happen and how to deal with it however in no time institutes quickly adopted to online mode by making necessary arrangement. This online mode has affected the student learning process and it has its influence on the overall quality which is being imparted to the students. The present study is being undertaken to exhume the students experience and knowledge to improve the quality, going forward. The researchers have taken qualitative approach to recognize this phenomenon which is otherwise difficult to measure using quantitative studies. The study reports various factors which could pave way for improving the quality of education in future where factors related to use of various tools for online assessment, ways to increase collaboration and interaction among the students are noteworthy. Major contributions of this study are to ensure that the students do participate in the online mode, by engaging them in the form of pre-reads, in-class quiz, short discussion etc., which will impact their learning, satisfaction and quality. The study also gives suggestion to improve the quality in future as in all probabilities, it is highly unlikely, that the world and education would be in future, as it was pre-Covid.