IMPACT OF COVID ON ACADEMIC PRACTICE AND TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HEL’S

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic starts from Wuhan city of China resulted in disaster in the lives of human beings through a deadly virus ‘Coronavirus’ in December 2019. Numerous nationalities, various organizations and world economy were affected on account of it. This finally transformed traditional classes of students into an online format in the middle of the academic semester in Higher Education sector in various countries. India is one of the most affecting country where education sector got the disadvantage of this crisis. Consequently, the faculty, researchers as well as students were enabling themselves through on- line teaching using various tools. Our objectives were 1) To study different factors affecting academia’s during COVID-19. 2) To study teaching learning process in higher education in COVID- 19 Pandemic. 3) To study different Key factors impacting the growth of Academia’s. 4) To study the effect of COVID 19 on the growth of Academia’s. 5. To study pedagogical shift in teaching learning process in the pandemic time. Research scholars, Assistant Professors and Professors and students (n= 1220) from rural university in India were taken as a sample. The researcher employed qualitative analysis to describe the effect of COVID- 19 on growth of Academia and teaching learning process. For this, researcher employed structured questionnaires to capture the impact of the pandemic on academia’s issues like research, library, funding and future perspectives in COVID-19 pandemic. Online Google Forms were employed to administer the survey. The frequent communication between students and faculty and research scholars and supervisors from the rural university helps to develop new teaching and learning pedagogy of different content to academia in a different perspective. This paper depicts the existing research on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the faculty, researchers and students by using key resources results in collaboration with research and education perspective.