Abstract
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is known to be the worst pandemic on the planet which has not only affected humankind very severely but also frozen all areas of life on the sphere. The pandemic caused the largest turmoil in the field of education across the world. The conventional system of education has been disrupted resulting in the closure of all educational institutions around the globe. The exams were postponed which made the students more concerned about their academic achievements. The educationists around the world started thinking about some good alternatives for this problem and subsequently considered online learning as the best substitute for conventional learning at educational institutes. The current study was carried out to accentuate the effectiveness of online learning system during the wave of COVID-19. To achieve the objective of the study, two educational institutes, one government and one private institute, were selected in Sargodha through convenient sampling and the individual perception of the participant teachers was documented using questionnaire as the data collection tool. The descriptive and inferential statistical design was followed for the analysis of the data. The overall findings revealed that the online learning was an effective and efficient system of learning to fulfill the educational needs of learners at distant locations. On the whole, the inferences supported the effectiveness of the online learning system during COVID-19.
Highlights
The current outbreak of novel coronavirus named COVID-19; a catastrophic pandemic originally emerged in Wuhan, China, in December, 2019, and spread all around the globe within no time
In order to examine the effectiveness of the online learning system, the results have been presented in tabular form for further interpretation
The overall results yielded that online learning was an effective and modern way of learning during COVID-19 to meet the educational needs of the students
Summary
The current outbreak of novel coronavirus named COVID-19; a catastrophic pandemic originally emerged in Wuhan, China, in December, 2019, and spread all around the globe within no time. The World Health Organization (WHO) officially identified this virus on 7th January 2020 and named it 2019-nCoV (Thorat et al, 2020). On 30th January 2020, the WHO declared public. Volume 2, Issue 4, 2020 health emergency of international concern and declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11th March 2020 (Anwar & Adnan, 2020). The world saw a ‘great lockdown’ closing down all the business forums, organizational activities, and educational institutions. The global recession due to COVID-19 resulted in the free fall of the world economy (Gros, 2020)
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