The Transition from Traditional to Digital Teaching-Learning due to COVID-19: A Comparative Study

Abstract

The transition in the teaching-learning process came with an untimely pandemic. Whilst schools and colleges were closed due to nationwide lockdown, the Indian education system had to shift from traditional to digital education. This study aims to collect data from students and educators of both schools and colleges from rural and urban regions to identify the digital technologies widely used, the practical challenges they encountered, the strengths and weaknesses of this method, to discover the effectiveness of teaching-learning in digital mode, to know the preferences of students and educators on teaching-learning methods and to comprehend the potential of digital teachinglearning to be used in the future from their experiences of teaching-learning during the COVID 19 era. For this, the data was collected twice with a time interval of 10 months, the first survey was conducted in August 2020 and the second was conducted in June 2021. It also seeks the opportunities created and its potential in the future. This study also reflects how the students and educators adapted to digital teaching-learning and the change in percentage of the practical challenges they faced.