IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON HIGHER EDUCATION IN TAMILNADU, INDIA

Education is a prime part of everyone's life and Covid-19 pandemic complexity has transformed everything in an unexpected way that culminated in everyone having to suffer due to this unpredicted, complicated period of lockdown. In this pandemic situation, education has also become a question mark for every child for the past two years. Initially, online teaching and learning was not comfortable to teachers and students owing to a myriad of reasons such as tower, network, desktop, laptop, mobile phone, low bandwidth, power supply, Wi-Fi and many more problems. This paper discusses impact of Covid-19 and its ramifications on higher education in Tamil Nadu, India. In this pandemic situation, ICT has played a vital role in connecting everyone in a digital environment and used different varieties of communication technologies in a single forum called virtual classroom. Furthermore, extensive analyses were completed by various aspects of online education and experimental results were implemented through SPSS tool to generate better evidence for future researchers and the results have been displayed in real time environment. Finally, the perspectives of online education among students in Tamil Nadu are concluded with pros and cons of online learning and their suggestions have been included well to improve efficient ICT teaching and learning process for future generation.