Abstract
Change is crucial for institutions in a growing and highly competitive environment. COVID 19 pandemic made a revolution in Indian higher education institutions by adapting to technology in the classroom. The purpose of this paper is to understand the technology adoption, teaching, and learning process towards virtual classrooms during Lockdown due to COVID 19, India. Inductive reasoning used in this study and qualitative research methods is used to collect the data from faculties and students associated with the Higher education institutions in Bangalore, India. The finding of the study suggests that during the lockdown period, faculty have undergone the process of technology adoption, whereas students are involved with various online modes of learning. This study is confined to the positive side of COVID 19 and Change in the education sector by adapting to technology and engaging students with various virtual sessions. The current study is limited to the sample frame of 50 from faculty and 48 from students from the Higher education institutions at Bangalore, India, hence finding of this study cannot be generalized for entire India. The emotions and perceptions of faculty and students towards the usage of technology may differ based on the location. There was lots of resistance in teaching fraternity towards adapting to technology. We intended to understand the emotions of students and faculty and crisis based change and not on creating hype for technology adaption or virtual classrooms. Moreover, the focus has to be given on a hybrid system of education. That helps in sustainability and education ambidexterity.
Highlights
COVID 19 pandemic has created stress among academicians and students in higher education institutions
There is a need to explore the study in understanding the perception of faculty and students towards technology adoption during COVID 19 lockdown and how it has influenced the teaching-learning in student engagement, and faculty involvement
The situation has driven faculty at higher education institutions in Bangalore to use technology tools in their teaching and started taking virtual classes, Virtual engagement of students seemed better than regular classrooms, and attendance clocked at almost 100 percent
Summary
COVID 19 pandemic has created stress among academicians and students in higher education institutions. The new environment and context have created a new way of teaching and learning and student engagement (Liu, 2020) In these scenarios, drastically moving from face to face to online teaching and learning (Charles Hodges, 2020) for both faculty and students have created dissonance and immediately was not ready for an emergency online learning (Nese, 2020); this was the major challenge for higher education institutions. Drastically moving from face to face to online teaching and learning (Charles Hodges, 2020) for both faculty and students have created dissonance and immediately was not ready for an emergency online learning (Nese, 2020); this was the major challenge for higher education institutions This situation presence need for qualitative and empirical research in the field of teaching and learning (Lee, 2020), student engagements, and faculty and students’ perspective towards the switch of technology in Indian higher education institutions. Technology intervention has a crucial role in educating future generations
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