Perceived Barrier in E-Learning Faced By the Undergraduate Physiotherapy Students throughout Covid- 19 Pandemic.

Abstract

The world of learning has undergone many new impact changes that have been caused due the pandemic raised owing to Covid-19. The overall of structure of education system and learning, which also includes the teaching and assessment methodologies involved in the Medical education, was the first among much other system that was affected by these closures. Higher Education system in the country has a critical claim on its economical future, as a result of the pandemic that has been significantly disturbed. Due to this effective disturbance the aged old, backboard teaching, classroom teaching techniques have driven over the technological interference. Shift of the tec njhnology has created many new windows and also arise many practical difficulties, which also includes the e-learning solutions and tackling of technologies. The article aims to find the perceived barrier in e-learning faced by undergraduate physiotherapy students throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. The aim was achieved by performing a structured interview of 150 college students those who are now attending offline, physical attendance lecture of the Physiotherapy College. The data collected qualitatively and the results were analyzed. The content analysis method was used to determine the perceived barrier faced by the students.

Analysis of the data highlighted the lack of Practical and practice sessions, the inability of a live demonstration, disturbances from the home environment, improper internet connectivity, and lack of communication between teachers and students were the potential barrier in e-learning. While achieving the aim of the article the positive impact of e-learning was also emerging from the interview of the students that was also documented and can be justified by its use in further studies.