An Analysis of the Problems faced during COVID-19 and their Impact on Students’ Academic Learning

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the newly discovered coronavirus. The year 2020 will go down in history as the year of the new coronavirus (COVID-19). Hundreds of thousands of people died from the plague around the world, schools and companies closed their doors, masks became popular in public areas, and unemployment skyrocketed. The population of the research was all post-graduate students at the public sector universities of Faisalabad. The population consists of 326 post graduate students in the 2nd semester, out of which, 143 students were selected by using the online sampling calculator www.surveysystem.com with a 95% confidence level and 5% confidence interval. The questionnaire was used as a research instrument for data collection. The data were analyzed through a statistical package for social science (SPSS). The top 1st ranked problem faced by students relating to research during COVID-19 was less interaction with other research students with a 525 weightage score and the 2nd ranked problem was found to be lack of communication with a 522 weightage score. Cost of the internet was the 1st and the top technological impact on students’ academic learning during the COVID-19 situation with a 547-weightage score. The 2nd ranked was a problem in LMS login, due to the burden on the website with a weightage score of 533. We all students and educational institutions need to work together to resolve the issues that are slowing us down in the development of academic life.