Opportunities and challenges due to COVID-19 during online education: A Case Study of Nepal

Following the nationwide shutdown of educational institutions (that started from 24 th March 2020) due to COVID-19 pandemic, institutions have been offering its classes via online platform.With more than a month into the online model, the case study was carried out to identify the existing challenges and opportunities for achieving the planned teaching outcomes.Personalized as well as group interviews were carried out to understand the situation.The study mainly adopted qualitative approach mainly using tools such as focus group discussion and key informant interviews.It was seen that initial phase of online education faced numerous challenges developing in countries like Nepal-lack of proper internet connection in remote part of the countries, difficulty in teaching modalities, ensuring proper participation in the class, measure students' performance was highly constrained due to limited interactions.The issue was mainly seen for classes with quantitative contents (such as maths, economics etc.).The findings presented from this case study is relevant to many colleges and universities in Nepal.Based on the recommendation provided from this study, National college adjusted many of its education modality.