A Study of Virtual Learning Experience of Student Teachers: Learner’s Satisfaction and Learning Needs

The COVID-19 pandemic constrained educational establishments all throughout the country to close down indefinitely. This unexpected closure of institutes across the country has affected the learning schedules. Most educational institutes have moved to web based learning modes to make all the difference for the learning. The institutes were not ready for such a change and their web based learning measure is advancing step by step or gradually. Nonetheless, the inquiries concerning the readiness, planning and viability of e-learning is as yet not plainly saw, especially for a nation like India, where the specialized requirements like reasonableness of technology and information transfer capacity accessibility represents a genuine test. With these requirements in see a study was directed with fundamental focus is to examine the satisfaction level and needs of contemporary student teachers about the virtual learning measure. A pre-planned survey was canvassed as google form to get student responses. It targets the gaps existing in the present virtual learning and assemble crucial necessities of the students to further develop their satisfaction levels on virtual learning. The survey was partitioned into 3 sets dependent on the idea of inquiries. As it would be profoundly hard to address the students’ requirements without knowing their current encounters and in this manner recognize essential requirements of progress. Set1: General and Demographic Characteristics, Set2: Satisfaction levels on virtual learning and Set3: Learning Needs Assessment. The study along these lines centers on understanding student teacher’s insight and inclination towards the virtual learning through an online survey of 71 D.El.Ed II year student teachers (55 Female and 16 male). It additionally investigated their inclinations for different attributes of online classes, which will be useful to plan successful virtual learning climate. The outcomes showed that practically half of the respondents are showing inclination of usefulness for online classes and opinioned that virtual learning is viable for them to deal with the educational plan during this pandemic. The student teachers opinioned that flexibility and comfort of online classes makes it appealing alternative, while broadband network issues, disturbed study environment at home, non-accessibility of devices, less freedom for vis-à -vis interaction with each other and educators presents challenge for student teachers to utilize virtual learning successfully. In education system where educator are preparing programs usefully to best of their understanding, moving totally to online mode may not be conceivable and need to circle around a hybrid mode, the experiences from this study can be useful in planning the model of internet learning for the new normal.