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teaching and learning process which concerns, the present research seeks
can significantly change their overall to answer the following research
teaching skills to suit the 21st century questions:
classroom. In Indian context, online 1. What are the learning experiences
teaching is a relatively new phenomenon acquired by special education
as compared to traditional classroom student teachers regarding various
teaching and this COVID-19 induced modes (Regular, Online and Both) of
sudden lockdown made the transition teaching - learning?
to online teaching imperative. Hence
the study aims to study the following 2. Which of the two classrooms
objectives to identify the perspective (regular and online) develop in-
of special education student teachers depth knowledge about a content?
in terms of their learning experiences 3. Which of the two classrooms
gained in both traditional and online (regular and online) offers good
classrooms. learning resources to acquaint with
learning of new content?
Objectives of the study

1. To find out the learning experiences Design and Sample
of special education student A quantitative survey was used to
teachers through various modes of examine the learning experience of
learning. students from undergraduate and
2. To compare the learning experience postgraduate special education courses
of special education student through online and regular classrooms.
teachers through regular/online A sample of 97 students undergoing
mode in terms of B.Ed and M.Ed Special Education
courses with specialization of Visual
• developing knowledge
Impairment, Hearing Impairment,
• offering effective learning resources Intellectual Disability, Autism Spectrum
Disorder and Multiple Disability from
Meaningful online learning and
teaching needs a proper planning to four special education teacher training
cater diverse needs of the students. institutions from Tamil Nadu were
Compromise in this planning leads to selected using purposive sampling
unproductive learning, resulting in non- technique. The demographic details of
accomplishment of learning objectives the participants are given in table 1.
and learning outcomes. Given these
Table-1: Demographic Details of Participants

Area Category Number Percentage (%)
Gender Male 8 8.2
Female 89 91.8
Age Range 21 to 30 85 87.6

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