Assessing Institutional Support to Online Education at Tertiary Level in Bangladesh Coping with COVID-19 Pandemic: An Empirical Study

Institutional support and quality education are linked in a significant way. During COVID-19, institutional support is critical to closing the huge academic gap that has emerged as physical academic practices have been moved to a virtual education system using technology. This research aims to assess institutional support for online education in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic. This analysis focused on the three main elements of the adapted model of institutional support (AMIS) of Bond et al. (2007), and the institutional support model (ISM) of Valverde and Rodriguez (2002), namely financial support (FS), technical support (TS), and mentoring support (MS). The findings of this research are, a few universities in Bangladesh have provided average support for continuing online education, while others…