An Investigative Study of Students’ Perspective Towards Transition to Online Teaching During COVID-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT

In this particular manuscript, an intensive study is done to synthesize the students’ perspective regarding transition from traditional to online teaching and learning mode for four different engineering subjects during the COVID-19 pandemic. A sudden switch was unexpected for the students and it deeply affected their epistemological beliefs, anticipations, assessment techniques and pedagogy of learning the subject. A sudden reliance on technology had its own responses and time management skills needed to be transformed. Since Engineering is practical oriented course and requires a lots of hand on practice, the students were skeptical to this change. An Online Teaching Survey was administered to the students and statistical tools were used to analyze student perceptions. Heterogeneous responses favoring traditional, hybrid and online mode were witnessed, although the emphasis was for traditional mode for the engineering subjects under study. This led to the amiable suggestion that the teaching mode is subject specific and this study would help us to support our teaching with the appropriate mode. © 2022 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.