REMOTE LEARNING DURING COVID – 19 IN HIGHER EDUCATION – STUDENT'S PERSPECTIVE

Remote Learning as a concept has been around since a long time. But the current pandemic has brought it
to the forefront. We hear terms like online learning, video recording, webinars used predominantly in the
current scenario. Education has shifted from the classroom to online platforms.
Teachers have to now compulsorily take live lectures online, go live on YouTube and many other platforms
(synchronous teaching) or by uploading recorded lectures and also giving online assignments, homework
(asynchronous teaching), to provide continuity in education to the student community.
However, the perspective of student community needs to be taken into consideration. Students are the main
beneficiaries of the teaching process – be it in classroom or online (synchronous or asynchronous). There is
a need to identify whether online teaching learning is actually benefitting the students.
This study is an attempt to find out the perspective of students pursuing Higher Education towards Remote
Learning especially during this pandemic and whether it would be acceptable to them in the future as well.
It also attempts to find out whether Remote Learning is set to become the new norm. The study would try to
find out the issues relevant to Remote Learning and whether there exists an Urban – Suburban divide in the
comfort with Remote Learning process amongst students.
A survey of around 100 Commerce Students would be conducted to find out their perspective about Remote
Learning. Statistical tools would be used to find out whether an Urban and Suburban divide exists in the way
students are comfortable with Remote Learning.