A STUDY OF POST PANDEMIC EFFECT ON STUDENT’S LEARNING STRATEGIES

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic disturbs the world in many unimaginable ways. If we look back on the past two years will come to know that it not only changes the whole world but also effect on  each individual. All sectors are badly affected with it and our education sector is not an exception. During pandemic the whole education system shifted on online wheels and started its journey even students have made changes in their learning strategies. After two years now hybrid teaching is going on everywhere and students are still trying to adopt new strategies of learning. This research paper mainly focuses on learning strategies of college students. ‘A learning strategy is an individual's way of organizing and using a particular set of skills in order to learn content or accomplish other tasks more effectively and efficiently in school as well as in non-academic settings.’(Schumaker& Deshler, 1992).

Though the pandemic has offered so many opportunitiesin higher educations along with it many challenges are also there. Entering higher education, students face the challenge of self- regulating their learning. Students are expected to be autonomous learners and to plan and monitor their own learning in a new context, less guided than in secondary education.The aim of present study is to find out as- how the post pandemic scenario bring change in student’s learning strategies? Are they comfortable to mold themselves according to situation or it’s a hectic thing for them? What problems they are facing & which learning strategies are useful for them now days?