The Impact of Online Teaching due to COVID – 19 and Post COVID Period in Albania

Abstract

The teaching process in the higher education institutions during the pandemic period of COVID– 19 was a big challenge all over the world, also for those universities which had applied beforethe online teaching process. This period was difficult referring to different perspectives,including infrastructures, abilities, technicalities, mentality, psychological situation etc.,. Due tothe pandemic's impact on educational institutions, which affected millions of students, there wasthe largest online movement in educational history. Universities had to swiftly transition tovirtual and digital tactics as a result of this abrupt move away from classrooms in many parts ofthe world. The paper employs both quantitative and qualitative approach to study the perceptionsof teachers and students on online teaching-learning modes and also highlights theimplementation process of online teaching-learning modes. The value of this paper is to give acomplete picture and to show all the advantages and disadvantages of ongoing online teaching-learning activities during the lockdown period including establishing the linkage between changemanagement process and online teaching-learning process in education system amid the COVID-19 outbreak so as to overcome the persisting academic disturbance and consequently ensure theresumption of educational activities and discourses as a normal course of procedure in theeducation system, resulting as the invention of an effective tool in the context of performanceimprovement and added value to education services.