ERIC Number: EJ1323435
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 12
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Is E-Learning for Primary School Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic a Boon or Bane?
Swain, Sukanta Chandra
International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, v16 n6 Article 6 2021
Pandemic due to the deadly virus COVID-19 has put the entire world in complete lock-down, that too, for months together. India has locked-down the entire country for more than two months. Schools, Colleges and Universities were to be closed immediately putting everything in halt. Classes were abruptly suspended and examinations were to be postponed indefinitely. Education at all levels got affected hugely. Higher education institutes (HEIs) of India that are embedded with technology blend teaching-learning system, used electronic mode for teaching and learning, i.e., e-learning, immediately after the announcement of first phase of lock-down. Following the trend, some of the primary Schools of the country also adopted the virtual platform for teaching-learning. On this backdrop, it is necessary to unfold whether the stakeholders of primary education are ready for virtual platform of teaching-learning. Thus, the objective of this paper is to establish on the basis of personal interviews among 50 parents of primary School students and 30 primary School teachers.
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Children, Child Health, COVID-19, Pandemics, Access to Computers, Internet, Child Safety, Computer Mediated Communication, Barriers, Affordances, Influence of Technology, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: India
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