Highlights
Abstract
Keywords
1. Introduction
2. Data and methods
2.1. Subjects
2.2. Data collection and procedure
2.3. Data Analysis
3. Results and discussion
3.1. Respondent’s profile
3.2. Cronbach’s alpha
3.3. KMO and Bartlett’s Test
3.4. Communalities
3.5. Total variance
3.6. Rotated component matrix
4. Concluding remarks
Declaration of Competing Interest
Appendix A. Supplementary material
References
Abstract
The year 2020 has been plagued with COVID-19 and many sectors such as the manufacturing and services are affected, with the educational sector being one of them. Even though a probable way through online learning is found to continue academic activities, the result and the process may not be successful. This study intends to identify the areas of educational disruption due to the COVID-19 situation. For this purpose, a structured questionnaire is used to collect data from students of various part of the Northeast states of India. The findings from the study revealed that there are many reasons that causes educational disruption in the life of students of north-eastern states of India. Students from the north-eastern states of India have been facing poor network, which leads to poor communication between the teachers and students. Continuous lockdown also causes mental stress to the students. As the tension rises due to the on-going pandemic, insecurity regarding the future plans of students also rises. Owing to financial constraints, students are not able to meet the necessary requirements for effective online learning.
1. Introduction
The novel coronavirus outbreak of pneumonia emerged in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, in December 2019 (Kang et al., 2020). The virus then started to spread all over the world. On 29th July the confirmed cases have risen to more than 16,739,530 and the death cases have risen to more than 660,407 affecting around 188 countries (Johns Hopkins University & Medicine, 2020). Due to the spread of the virus, many industries have been affected with a lockdown being imposed. This lockdown has had a toll on the livelihood of people working in various sectors.
The lockdown has had a severe impact on students and their learning process. A total of 50.43% of respondents of Spanish University presented moderate to severe impact of the outbreak. University students have been specially impacted by the COVID-19 confinement (Odriozola-González et al., 2020). Educational Institutions have taken steps to continue the academic process by using digital sources. The sudden change in the delivery of academic activities poses difficulties for the teachers and students to adapt. An interactive environment refers to an effective communication environment in the process of knowledge acquisition. An increase in interaction can improve students’ learning enthusiasm and concentration. In a traditional classroom, there are various teaching interaction modes, such as reversed classroom, random questions, and group reports.