Post-Pandemic Research on Students Perception towards Online Education Environment

Abstract

After the Right to Education was passed in 2009, India is continuously working on strengthening its education sector, offering free and compulsory education and this progress is significantly affected by the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic. Education during Covid-19 was totally dependent on the digital infrastructure that include internet, laptops and smartphones along with the edtechs’. This change brings an opportunity for every stakeholder of education system to adopt new and innovative techniques to rebuild and reshape education system. Digital format of education system did not stop post Covid-19, however it has an addition to the traditional teaching pedagogy. During the pandemic it was a forced implementation and post pandemic it has become the New Normal. This research paper tries to identify the post COVID perception of students toward online teaching learning environment of the B-Schools. Six factors of B-Schools environment are considered in this research and the factors are teaching and learning through online mode and its effectiveness, evaluation process, institutes administration, teacher as a facilitator and extracurricular activities. The descriptive study is conducted and data was collected from 430 management students of various B-Schools of Madhya Pradesh. Hypothesis has been framed keeping in loop all the six factors of B-School environment. The research concludes the positive perception of students toward online teaching learning environment of the B-Schools thus irrespective of pandemic the online education system could be implemented in the New Normal.