Online learning in COVID-19 situation: scopes and challenges in teaching-learning for Bangla subjects in government primary schools

Abstract

In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic attacked, the education sector was also affected like any other countries’ sector. A developing country like Bangladesh has gone through many changes in the education sector, including several different ways of learning, such as online classes. For the financial status of the majority of families of the students of government primary schools, it is pretty challenging to support the students using online platforms. Therefore, this study intended to understand the practice of Bangla online classes, its challenges, and scopes to improve. It has also come up from this study that blended learning is one of the significant components of the future education system. I chose a qualitative approach for this study and selected 18 participants who are either teachers’ or students’ names that are also important by or observers of Bangla online classes. Data from the interviews showed that though online Bangla classes are the only alternative during this emergency, all the skills of this subject are not possible to practice through online classes. The main challenges are the duration of the class, lack of online classroom activities and contents, and the process of online learning. Thus, this study proposes a fixed time and date of the class, which is helpful for teachers and students, creating online content for Bangla online classes which is equivalent to grade one to grade five, training of the teachers on how to take online Bangla classes efficiently, and researching and creating online activities for online Bangla classes