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responsibility for improving teaching 2. The Attitude of students’ towards
and learning. Universities and higher learning is very poor.
education institutions have immediately 3. Time management is very poor
turned to implementing virtual courses,
online assignment submissions and 4. The online teaching and learning
teacher-student interactions with the environment are not productive as
lockdown of suspending courses at compared to offline studies.
all schools, colleges and universities. 5. Lack of resources either technical or
Classes are also being taught online at print media.
schools, colleges and universities. In
general, the present analysis suggests Limitations
that there are several factors that are
responsible for the difficulty in learning. Consequently, when evaluating the
research outcomes, there are several
The findings from this study, therefore, other limitations to be mentioned. First,
the attributes of the participants resist the specific structure of the analysis,
their specific ability to learn due to such as the sampling method, is limited
their undesirable behaviours, family to only individuals with web access and
and socio-economic circumstances, English knowledge; the analysis may
psychological issues like less attention, also restrict generalisation. Second,
low focus and concentration, the research was carried over within a
technological problems like lack of lockout time, which often has its own
gadgets, low internet connectivity and psychological effect.
self-evaluation .
The study was designed to find out Acknowledgement
the problems online lecturers and The authors appreciated all the
students face in teaching and learning participants who have contributed to
approximation in primary colleges of this research. The focus of this paper
education. was to connect with students directly
After the analysis of the data collected, or through online means in order to
the following findings are summarized: receive the information about their
online study experiences during the
1. Students felt lack of focus, COVID-19 quarantine.
concentration, self-evaluation etc.
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