Effectiveness of Online Teaching during COVID-19

Abstract

While considering the challenges of online teaching in the current scenario of Covid-19 pandemic, the current study aimed to analyze the effect of student participation, teachers' skills and strategies, teacher training, teaching domain and teaching perception on effectiveness of online teaching. Primary data was used to test the proposed model of the study, data was collected through emails using convenience sampling from university teachers of Pakistan. Structural equation modelling technique was used through SmartPLS (v.3.3.3) to analyze the model of this research. Findings of the current study indicate that student participation, teachers' skills and strategies, teacher's training, teaching domain and teaching perception have a significant positive effect on effectiveness of online teaching. Hence, this study recommends that universities must have to focus on the individual teachers' need to make online teaching more effective.