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Research Article

COVID-19 Outbreak: eLearning Resources and Online Classes,
Advantages and Disadvantages

Padmini Pandey & U.V Kiran
2
1
1 Research Scholar, Department of Human development & Family Studies, School of
Home Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University),
Lucknow, U.P., India, Email: dolly15pandey@gmail.com
2 Professor, Department of Human development & Family Studies, School of Home
Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow,
U.P., India

Abstract
The purpose behind this quantitative research was to explore the experiences of students
in order to study how students assessed their ability to examine the physiological,
cognitive and behavioural responses experienced by students during lockdowns. The
research information was gathered by using Google online questionnaire. A total of
156 students from various regions of India were classified as Graduate, Postgraduate
Ph.D.s, and Post-doctorate based on educational degrees. Information was collected,
categorised as (1) Demographic data; (2) Activities during lockdown; (3) Resources used
by students and the effects of it during COVID-19 and statistical analysis was used for the
factual analysis of the data. According to the current study result, female respondents
used to like watching television, reading /writing and using social media though male
respondents were engaged with playing computer games, doing exercise and yoga and
cooking. After the crisis, we need to continue our education that way.
Keywords: COVID-19, Pandemic, Crisis, Mode of study.
Introduction maintain the university track even if
trying to avoid people crowding and
It is a stressful time when schools
around the world are shifting to a virtual the significant threat of the spread of
teaching-learning mode in an attempt infection. Students and teachers work
to fight the consequences of the consistently to adjust and make the
pandemic. Besides that, there is nothing learning process enjoyable, productive
quite like confronting communication and absolutely essential by means of
and participation by exchanging online lectures (“COVID-19 lockdown:
unique ideas and experiences from How students are coping with the online
life, gatherings to create innovative classes and syllabus”).
thoughts in the classrooms. Staying
secure at home is the dire necessity of Effect of Covid-19 on Educational
the time. The unexpected change in the Institutes
learning process into digital approaches According to UNESCO, since the
has been implemented in order to COVID-19 invasion began, school and

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