The Acceptance and Challenges of Online Learning over Covid-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT

Over the Covid-19 pandemic, physical education has been shifted to online education internationally. Parents, students and teachers faced numerous obstacles from the sudden transition of face-to-face classes to online learning. In this research, three categories of respondents are being studied who are students, teachers and parents, to find out the acceptance and challenges of online learning among them. The research is conducted to determine how online classes have affected students, teachers and parents mentally and physically. Quantitative survey questionnaire has been used to collect all the data from each category. The finding indicates, people still prefer physical classes despites all the conveniences of online learning. The result also indicates the paramount of face-to-face communication in human communication, particularly education. Future research can look more in depth into how the demographic and courses students enrolled affect their acceptance and challenges toward online education, and, what are the improvements to better the interaction via online classes. The study is significant for government and the involved parties to endeavor more challenges in the unknown future. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.