Analyzing Mental States, Perceptions, and Experiences of Teachers and Students: An Indian Case Study on Online Teaching–Learning

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.