Abstract

THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON EDUCATION AND PROBLEMS HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS, PARENTS, AND TEACHERS FACE DUE TO DISTANCE LEARNING

*Rachana Balusu, Pharm.D., *Terry Oroszi, Ed.D

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Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic has caused enormous stress on students, parents, and teachers because of distance learning. Schools, educational institutes, and universities have been shut down and continued teaching through distance platforms. In this review article, we studied the impact of online learning and the psychological stress it causes on parents, teachers, and students. It is identified that stress levels, anxiety, depression, and other psychological disorders doubled from pre-covid to covid in all individuals. Students' leading cause of stress was lack of proper devices, technology skills, electricity and internet issues, social isolation, and financial crisis. Teachers' stress levels increased as they lacked online teaching skills, materials, devices, increased workload, and work-life imbalance. Families and caretakers reported that they are scared of their children getting exposed to internet bullying, lack of technical skills in parents, fear of their child contracting the virus, and financial crisis.

Keywords: Covid, Distance education, Students, Teachers, Parents, Psychological disorders.