ABSTRACT
This online survey-based case study is a novel attempt to juxtapose the entwined experiences of teachers and students, their perspectives, and the effects of online teaching–learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The current work is an attempt to study the impact of the Pandemic on the mental health and emotional well-being of students and teachers across various parts of India. It presents a unique comparison of student responses at the beginning of the pandemic (in a previous study) with the recent data collected exactly one year after that, which shows a significant rise in negative emotional states, lower levels of satisfaction with personal progress, and much higher average screen-times. The novel dataset gathered for the current study has 572 responses of students with 51 unique attributes and 390 responses of teachers with 64 unique attributes were called “Covid-19 Go Away 2021” abbreviated as “C-19GA21” and was published on an open online data repository. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
ABSTRACT
Word Health Organization declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as pandemic on 11 March 2020. After that on 14 March 2020 the Ministry of Home Affairs, India decided to treat COVID-19 as a "notified disaster" due to the spurt in the cases related to coronavirus in the country, leading to a complete shut down from 24 March 2020. This has affected all sectors of the country including the education sector. The near-total closure of schools, colleges, and universities has disrupted academic activities at various levels. The objective of this online survey study is to understand the day to day living, activities, learning styles, and mental health of young students of India during this unprecedented crisis and assess how they are adapting to the new e-learning styles and how they are managing their social lives.