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Call for Paper Volume 8, Issue 5 (September-October 2026) Submit your research before last 3 days of October to publish your research paper in the issue of September-October.

Problems Faced by the Teachers during Covid-19: an Exploratory Study

Author(s) Ms. Gagandeep Kour
Country India
Abstract The surge of Covid-19 pandemic placed the world in lockdown situation. The educational sectorwas badly affected by it. The schools, colleges and universities were closed the world over. In suchsituations, the teachers turned to online teaching mode to keep the education of students going.The sudden shift from face-to-face mode of teaching to online mode of teaching had put forthmany problems and challenges before the teachers at each level of education. The present studyaimed to explore the problems faced by the college teachers in online teaching of Samba districtduring the pandemic. Survey method was used to conduct the study. Self prepared questionnaireconsisting of twelve closed ended questions and one open ended question was used to collect thedata. College teachers of Samba district formed the population and forty teachers from fivecolleges of Samba district were randomly selected as a sample of the study. The data was analyzedusing percentage. The paper highlights some of the problems faced by the teachers i.e. unfavorablehome environment for online learning, lack of students interaction, lack of knowledge about onlineteaching technologies, poor network connection, non availability of smart phones with thestudents, lack of ICT tools with teachers, lack of internet access, power failure, high data cost,inequality issues and increased workload on teachers and technical glitch etc.. The paper alsomakes certain suggestions to address the issues and to be better prepared for future.
Published In Volume 8, Issue 5, September-October 2026
Published On 2026-09-04

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