Effectiveness of Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The study investigates the perspectives of students on the effectiveness of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. 120 higher education students: 80 male and 40 female participants were randomly selected to participate in the study to express their perspectives on online learning during the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in the context of Nepal. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the questionnaire data. The findings revealed that online learning is ineffective as it failed to produce expected outcomes in underdeveloped countries like Nepal, where the uptake of technology is at the initial stage consequently access to the Internet, adequate infrastructure, preparedness of teachers are unsatisfactory. The study contributes for the better understanding of students’ perspectives of online learning that will be highly significant for academicians, researchers, curriculum designers, policy makers and so on.