PARTICIPATION OF TEACHERS IN ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS IN THE POST-COVID PERIOD

ABSTRACT

The empirical study focuses on the intention of teachers engaged in higher educational institutions to use the online mode for teaching and learning. The researchers use the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology-2 for the purpose. Responses are collected from 240 faculty members of West Bengal (India) using the online survey method. The analysis of 231 responses is done with the help of Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) method to test and validate the proposed model. The analysis shows that performance expectation, selfefficacy, social influence and facilitating conditions significantly influence teachers' intention to use online teaching-learning method which leads to the actual use of this ICT-based mode of education. The study also finds that age of teachers has negative and significant influence on intention to use in contrast to the positive effect of discipline. However, institutional level has negative and significant influence on teachers' actual use of online teaching-learning method.