Opportunities and Obstacles Faced During Work From Home in Teaching Faculties

Abstract

Introduction- The lockdown period amid Covid -19 has given the opportunity to the teaching faculties to
work from home and to practise teaching learning activities using various online pedagogies (Zoom, WebEx,
Google classroom, Google meet etc) to fill the knowledge gap which may transpire if the teaching learning
activities are ignored and not taken earnestly. Hence taking this in consideration and prioritizing the need of
learning activities to be carried in the virtual methods mostly all teaching faculties in various institutes have
planned itinerary with the online teaching learning session hour by hour and day by day and also assigned
assignments to the students to evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching. Methodology:A Non-Experimental
Descriptive Research Approach “. The study was conducted among various teaching institutes of Pune
City. The selection of sample was based on easy geographical accessibility, cooperation, and availability
of samples.The sample size for study was 100,selected by using Non Probability Convenience Sampling
Technique from various teaching institutes of Pune City who met the inclusion criteria.. Objective:1.To
assess the opportunities with work from home in teaching faculties from selected institutes of Pune City 2.To
assess the obstacles faced with work from home in teaching faculties from selected institutes of Pune City3.
To associate the demographic variables with the opportunities and obstacles of work from home in teaching
faculties from selected institutes of Pune City.Result :The analysis asserts that the opportunities related
to personal growth were sometimes applicable for 83% and was often applicable for 17 % of the teaching
faculties, work opportunities for majority of the teaching faculty’s i.e. 82 % were often applicable and for
only 18% of them these opportunities were applicable some times. Work obstacles were often applicable for
53 % of teaching faculties and sometimes applicable for 47 % of teaching faculties. Technological obstacles
were often applicable to 88% of teaching faculties and for 12 % it was applicable sometimes. Conclusion:
Work from home related to teaching faculties is associated with various opportunities and obstacles however
it proposes that work from home can be given to teaching faculties also as it is more opportunistic to the
teachers as well to the institutes.