Perception of Parents About the Virtual Learning of Their Children During Covid-19 Pandemic – A Mixed Study Design.

Abstract

Background:The Covid-19 pandemic has brought a drastic change in the educational system in India. The students are out of classroom setup in the world,which resulting technology has emerged as a successful milestone where school has adopted digital platforms for teaching. This Research studies aimed at the perception of parents about the virtual learning of their children during covid-19 pandemic situation and the study was a mixed study design (N= 87) with a selfadministered questionnaire. Descriptive statistics was done by using SPSS ver-25. Majority of the population was female and the mean age was 41-50 years.Children were attended maximum 4-hours online education with the support of mobile phone but the parents were reported that their inability to monitor their children academic role during the online services.Though the school has a separate app to cover the requirements of children's need but the quality of the content of the curriculum is questioned. Children were suffering with irritation of the eyes, behavioral problems, and parents are becoming an expert in providing counseling. Parents were reported of e-learning should help the weaker students and support them by providing regular feedback. This study concludes that parents were agreed the online education during this pandemic,but they were a highly preferred traditional school of practice.