A Study to Mitigate Remote Learning and Teaching Challenges among Rural and Urban Students and Teachers in Karnatak.

Autor: T. V., Nischita, H., Lohith, M. N., Jushwanth Yadav, N. R., Rakshitha, V., Poorvi, R., Unni Krishnan, K., Shakeel, Vernekar, Prathviraj, Phaugat, Sakshi, Bhat, Arun, Francis, Nisha
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering & Operations Management; 08/16/2022, p1419-1430, 12p
Abstrakt: Online learning and teaching are becoming the new normal around the world after the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the lack of facilitates, infrastructure and other factors posing challenges to many urban and rural students and teachers on smooth and effective running of online classes. The present study aims to analyse the challenges in remote/online learning as a comparative study among urban and rural students and teachers. The study focuses on understanding the different challenges to mitigate them through suggesting real-time and cost-effective solutions thereby enhanced online learning and teaching experience. Questionnaire Survey is administered in the study to collect the data. Convenience Sampling is used to select the sample. Factor analysis, regression analysis and independent sample t-test are conducted to achieve the objectives of the study. Results indicated that the rural students and teachers faced more challenges compared to urban areas due to the lack of access to resources and financial constraints to buy online learning platforms like mobile phone, laptop etc. But challenge like lack of interaction were faced more or less same by both rural and urban area students. The importance of some common facilities that appeared to be the need for both rural and urban students and teachers, to improve the effectiveness of online teaching and learning is explored through this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index