PERCEPTION OF STUDENTS REGARDING COVID-19: PRE-PANDEMIC VS. POST-PANDEMIC LEARNING COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has impacted education system globally. Lockdown has been imposed in numerous countries to reduce spread of pandemic and this lead to immediate closure of educational institutions. This lockdown has impacted more than 90% of learners globally as regular in campus learning process can’t be continued and thus educational institutions shift towards online learning process. The current study is investigating and evaluating perceptions of leaners in Pakistani educational institutes and study is comparing the difference in learner’s perceptions of same students in pre as well as post pandemic time period. The study has a sample size of 386 respondents from Bahria University and response rate is 89%. From the sample size of 386, 345 responses were deemed to be suitable. The study is using SPSS version 25.0 software for descriptive as well as analytical statistics. The study results have shown that there exist statistically significant difference in perception of Pakistani students towards in campus learning methods pre pandemic and web based learning methods used in post pandemic time. Keywords: perception, web based learning, pre and post pandemics.