Emergency Online Instruction at Higher Education in Bangladesh during COVID-19 : Challenges and Suggestions

Teachers play a key role in enacting educational change. Whatever decisions are taken by educational leaders, it is the teachers who have to be at the forefront in implementing them. As the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic continued, public universities in Bangladesh began to take tentative steps towards online classes after an initial period of institutional closure and class suspension. Teachers had to embark on emergency remote teaching without much preparation. In this backdrop, this study was designed to explore teachers’ perspectives on online teaching and learning in the context of the pandemic situation. In particular, the study aimed to identify the major challenges faced by teachers during this sudden shift to remote online teaching. In addition, the purpose was…