Impact Of Online Classes During COVID-19 Pandemic Situation on Undergraduate University Students Pakistan

Farwa Batool; Bareera Saeed; Atia Ur Rehman; Humaira Waseem

doi:10.52229/ajahs.v0i0.785

Farwa Batool Department of Speech language pathology Hira Hospital Lahore, Pakistan
Bareera Saeed Depoartment of Physhology, University of Karachi, Pakistan
Atia Ur Rehman Department of Allied Health Sciences Rashid Latif Medical Hospital Lahore, Pakistan
Humaira Waseem Department of Allied Health Sciences Rashid Latif Medical Hospital Lahore, Pakistan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52229/ajahs.v0i0.785

Keywords: COVID-19, pandemic, online classes, virtual classes, undergraduate students

Abstract

The COVID-19 detected in school, colleges and universities close the entire world. More than 1.2 billion kids were not in class-room worldwide. Consequently; education has altered considerably, among the characteristic increase of relearning, where by education is under-taken distantly as well as upon digital platform. Research recommended that online education has been revealed to raise maintenance of knowledge, moreover acquire not as much of time, denotation alter corona virus comprise cause might be now to reside.

Objective: To find out the impact of online classes in COVID-19 pandemic situation among undergraduate university students of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore.

Methods: A cross sectional study design was conducted for this research.Study was conducted from The University of Lahore, Lahore campus, department of Health Professional technologies. Sample size was 67. Data was analyzed and evaluated with the help of the statistical package for social sciences SPSS-V20

Results: Total 67 students participated in research. Participants' age range was 19 to 25 years.70% females and 29.9% males participated in this research.41.8% participants reported that they are facing difficulties in online classes while 3% participant were slightly disagree on it. 53.7% participants were disagreeing on learning satisfaction in online classes while 29.9% were strongly disagreeing.

Conclusions: This study concluded that despite gaining immense popularity today, digital technology has still not been embraced by students for use in teaching. Students are still more inclined towards face to face teaching rather than e-teaching.