Impact of Online Teaching during COVID-19 Pandemic on Outcome of Medical students in Pakistan

Abstract

COVID-19 has hit hard to the educational system in Pakistan in addition to business, economics and others since February 26, 2020 when first case of COVID-19 was identified in Pakistan. The faculty and students had to switch to online teaching within few weeks without prior training¹. However, there are pros and cons of online teaching discussed in the studies in Pakistan and worldwide, which particularly focuses on faculty training and internet connectivity issues in addition to valid assessments and focus of students to lectures from home². The faculty has also worked hard to use synchronous and asynchronous mode of teaching, gamifications to make teaching interesting and introduced various modes of assessments both formative and summative like open book and quizzes on Kahoot^3-5.