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| Published: September 26, 2021
Understanding Personal Learning Outcomes of Online Education in Covid-19 Pandemic on Secondary and Higher Education Learners
Masters of Arts, Department of Psychology, Delhi University, Delhi, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.171.20210903
DOI: 10.25215/0903.171
ABSTRACT
Online learning access levels are not uniformly distributed throughout the country as the majority of the schools, institutes and universities in the country prefer physical classes instead of digital ones. The purpose of research was to develop a psychological understanding on online education during COVID-19 pandemic from secondary and higher education learners’ perspective. The present qualitative study consisted of a total of 31 students (N=31; 14 males and 17 females). The learners belonged to the age group of 15 to 22 years studying at various government and private institutions. The research used semi-structured interviews for data collection and thematic network analysis as a tool for data interpretation to yield insights. After independent review and revision of themes, a total of 12 global themes emerged, six themes describing the positive impacts and other six explained aspirational needs on online education. As a result, the study tapped into understanding not only primary factors related to online learning such as preference for learning, teachers response, infrastructural needs, etc but it also tapped into secondary factor that might have impact on online education such as social relationship with family and friends, home setting, role of social media & relationship with peers.
Keywords
Online Education, Pandemic, Learners, Thematic Network, Global Themes
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2021, Thukran M.
Received: July 25, 2021; Revision Received: September 12, 2021; Accepted: September 26, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.171.20210903
10.25215/0903.171
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 3, July- September, 2021