“Psychological Impacts of Online Learning during Covid 19 on learners.”

Bad impacts:

1. Learners feel stressed: Stress can be considered as any factor which can cause physical or mental unrest. It can be caused due to many factors:

• Lack of technical skills: Lack of technical knowledge of either learner or teacher results in a bad effect on either teacher or learner or even both.
• Exposure to screen (whether mobile or laptop) is increased: Learners are continuously exposed to screens which affect eyes of learners and thus a stress is felt by learners.
• Learners are more involved in family issues: Prior to covid 19 pandemic i.e., in normal situation, learners could be able to forget family issues in the school environment but now a learner has to deal with every family issues and so may get sometimes stressed.
• Random commencement of extra classes: Teachers sometimes announce about extra classes just 10-20 minutes before commencement of the class. At such a short notice some students are not able to join the class and so get stressed.

2. Learners feel socially isolated: Social isolation can be defined as the absence of relationships with family or friends on an individual level and with society on a broader level.Although, learners spend most of their time in their house, they do not have so much interaction with the people in the society. They feel lonely and isolated. This may result in increased rates of anxiety, poorer sleep, lower levels of motivation and even withdrawal from social interactions. Thus, social development of the learner is also affected.

3. Lack of self-motivation: Self-motivation is the internal force that drives an individual to do something. Without proper self-motivation, a learner cannot learn properly in online mode of teaching-learning process. The deterioration of self-motivation can be due to lack of social interaction. Prior to Covid 19 pandemic, teachers could remember many things by just looking at the faces of students but now this interaction has become so limited that self-motivation is getting low in the learners.

4. Emergence of irritability:  Irritability involves feelings of anger or frustration. During the period of covid 19 situation, students have started feeling irritated. A learner can experience it in response to several stressful situations such as —

• Lack of proper environment: sometimes learners are unable to find a peaceful environment where he/she will be able to concentrate properly. This is not mandatory that every house has a provision of an extra room or a study room to provide a proper place to learn through online mode of learning.
• Network issues: Many a times, learners face the difficulty of network issues. Frequent network issues can cause irritation.

5. Emotional disturbances: Learners experience emotional disturbances due to lack of social support. It includes mood swings, anxiety, stress, depression, etc. this can also cause psychic problems/disorders/diseases.