Stakeholders’ perspective towards the contingency education model during covid 19 pandemic

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Covid-19 pandemic has an impact on worldwide education system. To avert the danger of human life, all school, colleges and university around the world have to be shut down. To circumvent the educational loss due to this pandemic, the educational bodies have decided to continue the teaching through online modes where instructor and students will be connected virtually. Objective: This new model is considered as Contingency Educational Model (CEM). There are three major stakeholders in this Model Students, Teachers and Parents. This paper is an effort to analyse the perspective of these stakeholders about this CEM. The scope of the paper is limited to the school and colleges of India Region. Methods: To evaluate the above-mentioned aspect, the questionnaire method of survey was adopted by the authors. A questionnaire was designed keeping in mind IES (Indian Education system) and CEM (Contingency Education Model). Some of the key factors that authors considered are the usefulness of this model, skill enhancement of users, ease of use, privacy & security, and intention to use this model. Results: Based on responses given by the respondents, these aspects are evaluated, using MS Excel & SPSS tools. The current paper has summarized the experiences of various stakeholders in the Contingency Education Model that has implemented on the recommendations of UNESCO. Conclusion: The CEM is very much required to save the education loss that Covid-19 might generate due to all over world lockdown. © 2021, Radiance Research Academy. All rights reserved.