A Study on the Impact of the Online Education System adopted during the COVID-19 Pandemic with reference to Kyrgyzstan and India

Abstract

: With the sudden outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the education system of       
the whole world got 
affected severely. With a deep concern of safeguarding the little ones, the educational institutions were shutdown by 
the respective locale governments of almost every country. This situation persuaded an inordinate transformation in 
the teaching learning pattern and led to the massive involvement of ICT based tools with the shift of offline to online 
mode of teaching. The efforts made to cope up the situation and uphold the learning standards of the little ones. In 
this paper, the impact of the distance or online teaching learning pedagogy adopted by the schools during the 
pandemic has been studied. The study has been done in reference to the two countries – Kyrgyzstan and India, and 
for the session 2020-21. The study has been done with the help of the three prime stakeholders of the school 
education system, viz. students, teachers and the parents of the school going children. The study included the 
conduct of a survey using tools like: oral questions, interviews, questionnaires etc. The results of both countries are 
also compared.