ICT in Education: A Comparative Analysis of Pre-Covid and Post-Covid Era

ABSTRACT

Technology is one of the modes of education to optimize teaching and learning methodologies in imparting knowledge. Talking about higher educational institutes, one can see the same pedagogy as it used to be a decade ago. However, these Institutes are plagued by many challenges like lack of infrastructure and inadequate technology access, and it is essential to see how these burgeoning technologies (ICT) are fostering and bridging this massive gap of teaching and learning and keeping pace with the rest of the part of the globe. ICT has revolutionized almost every sphere of society. The education system is one of the sectors that has also undergone a massive change with ICT incorporation. After the arrival of the worldwide covid pandemic, the use of ICT in education has increased extensively. This paper has performed a comparative analysis on ICT usage by the students and teachers of engineering institutions in pre-covid age and post-covid age. The survey method of data collection has been used in this research work. Analysis of results has revealed that the usage of ICT by the students and teachers has been significantly increased after the arrival of covid. Moreover, the presented work has highlighted the issues raised by the students and teachers in the post-covid time. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.