Panacea Journal of Medical Sciences 2022;12(2):455–459 Content available at: https://www.ipinnovative.com/open-access-journals Panacea Journal of Medical Sciences Journal homepage: http://www.pjms.in/ Original Research Article Challenges faced in teaching learning process by the students and teachers during the pandemic: A cross-sectional study Madhur Gupta 1 , Saumya Awasthi 2 , Arti Kasulkar 3, * 1 Dept. of Biochemistry, N.K.P Salve Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India 2 N.K.P Salve Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India 3 Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, N.K.P Salve Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India ARTICLE INFO Article history: Received 03-04-2022 Accepted 15-07-2022 Available online 17-08-2022 Keywords: COVID19 New modes of Education Student’s perspective Teacher’s perspective Survey ABSTRACT Background: The COVID pandemic has caused drastic changes in education systems in the world. The government enforced the restriction of all the educational institutions all over the country and also throughout the world. Due to shut down of institutions, the mode of learning shifted from on-site, in person learning to online, virtual mode. Thanks to the advancement of the technology and sciences, we were able to connect students to their professional world virtually. The study intends to acknowledge the student’s mentality while attending online classroom and also highlighting the challenges faced due to the online education. Materials and Methods: The study was based on descriptive cross-sectional study and conducted through consented online survey where forms were distributed via social media. A total of 320 participants consented for the survey and willingly participated for it. Results: The survey showed that though the online mode of study was helpful in keeping up with the education, barriers can lead to obstruction for the fluidity of education. Conclusion: We should come up with more innovative ideas to connect students and professors with minimal barriers between them. This is an Open Access (OA) journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. For reprints contact: reprint@ipinnovative.com 1. Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic was started in early months of 2020 that has caused the world to cease their activities. The global health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2019 threw higher education into a challenging arena all over the world. Schools were forced to move rapidly to an exclusively online teaching mode. The daily number of cases is accelerating and the number of deaths is wildly increasing. As of 29 April 2021, the current COVID positive cases in India are 18.8 million with daily rise of * Corresponding author. E-mail address: artinarde@rediffmail.com (A. Kasulkar). cases of 3.87 lakhs. Amidst the chaos, the world has to take measures to somehow control the chaos. This includes lockdown, curfews, restrictions, maintains safe distance as much as possible, promoting use of face mask, sanitizers and washing hands. But there is a huge impact in the field of education due to lockdown. The students are in panic about their studies and examinations. The teachers are worried about the completion of syllabus. It is all thanks to the developed technology and network that the students can virtually interact with the teachers while sitting at home. Various platforms are available for students to fill the gap that is formed by the lockdown in the education. Be it https://doi.org/10.18231/j.pjms.2022.085 2249-8176/© 2022 Innovative Publication, All rights reserved. 455