• DR.N.KAVITHA
• DR.M.PADMAPRIYA

The COVID -19 lockdown created a challenging situation in all the sectors of the Economy. It has resulted in schools and colleges shut all over the world. Over 1.2 billion children are out of their classroom. This caused a dramatic change in the educational system with a distinct rise of e-learning teaching remotely and on digital platforms. This study is a depiction of online teaching -learning modes adopted by the teachers to educate the students from home. The research was conducted to identify the perception of teachers and their experiences of teaching students through online during lockdown. A questionnaire is prepared to find out how the teachers are handling the students through online and the problems encountered by them during online teaching. To study these, 200 questionnaires were sent online to teachers of different colleges in Tirupur City and 184 responses were received and analyzed. The analysis was carried out with Rank analysis, Chi-Square test, Likert Scale analysis and Simple percentage analysis to represent the impact of online teaching and teacher’s perception on the basis of various factors. The study reveals that teachers accomplish that online teaching is expanding their apprehension and increasing their technical potentiality. The research concludes that teachers are vigorously participating in the online teaching to teach the students and they are taking the online class positively and have a connection virtually with the students continuously for their upliftment in future.

Online teaching, Perception, COVID-19, Lockdown, e-learning, Teaching – learning modes.

"TEACHER’S PERCEPTION ON ONLINE TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION DURING THE PANDEMIC PERIOD COVID-19", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no.f669-f677, June-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106793.pdf

"TEACHER’S PERCEPTION ON ONLINE TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION DURING THE PANDEMIC PERIOD COVID-19", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no. ppf669-f677, June-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106793.pdf