A STUDY OF ONLINE TEACHING EXPERIENCE OF TEACHERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS DURING LOCKDOWN

To break the spread of the novel corona virus, all the state governments across the country shut down schools and colleges temporarily and declared lockdown in 2020 and again continued in 2021. The pandemic has significantly disrupted the higher education sector. For the continuation of teaching process, most of the State government opted online mode of teaching. The purpose of the present study is to examine the experiences of the teachers in higher educational institutions about online mode of teaching during lockdown due to COVID 19 pandemic. The study is limited to the sample frame of 46 faculty members including Principals, HOD's , Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors of Government, Government-Aided colleges and Private institutions. The primary data collected with the help of questionnaire created in Google-form due to the time constraints containing both close-ended and open- ended questions. Respondents belong to Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Gujarat and the Haryana state. All the compiled data were analyses as per the responses given by the respondents.