Abstract

With the outbreak of COVID-19, the educational institutions, whether be it a School, College or a University has moved to a digital teaching-learning mode. In this study, we tried to find out the factors influencing the digital teaching-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and its influence on adapting to a nippy digital teaching-learning platform by academics and factors impending its adaptability thereof. From the study, we identified four factors which have influence in the digital teaching-learning process, viz., communication skills, digital skill, knowledge management and ability to learn independently. It has been identified that COVID-19 has a positive and significant impact on Digital teaching mode. Knowledge of digital skills was found to act as the high contributing factor whereas knowledge management as the least contributing factor.

Key words: COVID-19, Digital teaching, communication and digital skills, knowledge management, ability to learn independently.