A SURVEY ON PERCEPTION AND PARTICIPATION OF TEACHER TRAINEES TOWARDS ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN SOUTH BENGAL
MITU DAS *
Muktir Shiksha College of Education, India.
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Abstract
The COVID-19 has resulted in schools shut all across the world. `Globally, over 1.2 billion students are out of the classroom. As a result, education has changed dramatically, with the distinctive rise of e-learning, whereby teaching is undertaken remotely and on digital platform. This is also true for teacher education. The purpose of this research study is to survey on perception and participation of teacher trainees towards online teaching and learning. In this research, the survey type of tool used as Google forms as a data collection instrument and the sample consists of 196 teacher trainees. The findings highlighted the need for a comprehensive view of the pedagogy of online education that integrates technology to support teaching and learning.
Keywords: Teacher trainees, perception, participation, online teaching and learning, COVID-19 pandemic