Barriers to Online Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic:Students’ Perspective

Prior to the upsurge of COVID-19 pandemic, the online teaching-learning resources were considered as additional e-learning aids that could enrich the teaching-learning experiences of the students as well as of teachers. However, the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has made online mode of teaching-learning an indispensable unit of education system. Globally the academic community has adopted online mode of learning for ensuring continued educational services during COVID-19. Despite numerous possibilities offered by online mode, the adoption of this method was not much smooth as many of the educational stakeholders were not much prepared for intricacies of the process due to which they faced many unforeseen challenges. In the light of the above changes witnessed by education system during COVID-19 pandemic, this paper predominantly highlights the challenges faced by students in continuing and acquiring education through online mode of teaching-learning. The challenges discussed in the present paper consider online teaching-learning process as a temporary solution instead of a substitute to conventional classroom scenario. Furthermore, considering online learning solutions as an indispensable and irreplaceable unit of the present teaching-learning scenario, the present paper is an effort to put forward some suggestions for overcoming the barriers to online mode of teaching- learning.