Perception of Parents Regarding E-Learning of School Students During COVID-19 Pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted every aspect of human life including the education of childrenas schools have been shut down due to enforcement of lockdown. As a result, virtual education has become the most preferred mode of education which has replaced traditional classroom teaching. In the present study an endeavourhas been made by the SSSS Educational Research Unit, Amritsar (Punjab), to study the perception of parents regarding the effectiveness of online teaching-learning process and the challenges they faced inproviding the child accessto online resources. For the study, the data has been collected from 1401 parents of students from pre-primary to senior-secondary classes studying at different SSSS educational institutions using the questionnaire prepared in the form of google docs. The results indicate that parents preferred e-learning as a mode of education during the present situation, yet they are struggling to meet the challenges of online classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]