Blended teaching and psychological well being of educators : A study  across commerce and management institutions in Bengaluru

Pillai, Rajani H.; Bi, Aatika

doi:10.47974/JSMS-1135

Open Access Research Article

Blended teaching and psychological well being of educators : A study across commerce and management institutions in Bengaluru

^*Rajani H. PillaiCorresponding authorrajani.h.pillai@mccblr.edu.inSchool of CommerceMount Carmel College AutonomousBengaluru, Karnataka, 560052, India0000-0002-6473-4412View full profile → , Aatika Biaatika.bi@mccblr.edu.inSchool of CommerceMount Carmel College AutonomousBengaluru, Karnataka, 560052, India0000-0002-8655-3428View full profile →

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pp. 1697–1708Vol. 26Issue 7October 2023DOI: 10.47974/JSMS-1135XML

Published Online:: 27 Nov 2023
Article type:: Research Article
Language:: EN
Article no.:: JSMS-1135
Pages:: 1697–1708

Abstract

The unanticipated global spread of the COVID-19 virus has posed an extra challenge to the world’s educational systems, forcing teachers to adopt online or blended modes of instruction. Teachers face a wide range of difficulties as they adjust to the digital pedagogical style, new pedagogical concepts, and the expectation that they will find creative solutions to meet the academic and personal needs of their pupils. Institutions of higher learning are working to develop programs to help students, especially those from underprivileged backgrounds, make up for academic ground they may have lost.In offline, online, and hybrid learning models, there is an increased emphasis being placed not only on the health and safety of instructors, but also on the collaboration between authorities and a wide variety of other stakeholders. While there is a growing body of study being conducted on related goods and initiatives in industrialized nations like the United States, there is a considerably smaller body of information that has been collected on the subject in developing nations like India. There is need for study on the efficacy of blended models as well as the health and happiness of the educators, and this may be done using qualitative, quantitative, or hybrid methods. In fact, there are a variety of assumptions about blended model implementation in education that are worth exploring beyond simple causality. Similarly, it is descriptive and exploratory in character, with the goal of learning how newer and more exact systems should be fashioned.The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence that blended teaching can have on the mental health of educators. Convenience sampling was used to obtain the sample for this investigation, and it was distributed throughout the teaching fraternities of commerce and management colleges. For the purpose of the study, a sample size of 150 educators was gathered, with a margin of error of 10% and a confidence interval of 95 percent. A qualitative pilot research was done on this topic with a group of fifty instructors, and a well-structured questionnaire was constructed by considering their findings. A statement based on a Likert scale is included in the questionnaire in order to gauge the challenges associated with blended learning as well as the personal wellbeing of the instructors. The statistical analysis of the data will be carried out with the help of the software packages SPSS and AMOS. The findings of the study will be of tremendous use to the teaching community in terms of coping with the obstacles posed by blended learning, and such methods can be widely implemented for the benefit of the students.

Keywords

Blended teaching Psychological wellbeing Teachers Educators Students

Subject Classifications

97D4097U70

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