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OVERVIEW AND
PERSPECTIVE OF
ONLINE TEACHING IN
OPTOMETRY EDUCATION
A QUESTIONNAIRE-BASED
MULTICENTER STUDY
n December 2019, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
was first reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China that
Icaused unprecedented disruption of the medical education
and healthcare systems worldwide . Since then, the classroom
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teaching got a set back and technology restructured the entire
education system related to health care profession. Recent
data on All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) report
released by the Ministry of Human Resource Development
(MHRD), Government of India, suggests that there are 993
RUNA MAZUMDER universities, 39931 Colleges and 10725 standalone institutions
that offer higher education and the online education
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market in India is expected to reach INR 360.3 billion by 2024
compared to its value of INR 39 billion in 2018 with increasing
demand for online education at all levels beginning from early
school education. 2
In India, optometry as a health care profession, has evolved
gradually over the years in the field of academics starting from
diploma to post graduation and PhD and it needs extensive
practical skills along with sound theoretical knowledge
that cannot be effectively taught solely in online mode.
However, the educators all over the country began to use
technology and accepted the virtual mode of learning during
the past three years. There are few studies that showed the
GOUTAM DAW transformation of ophthalmic education into virtual learning
BOTH THE AUTHORS ARE FROM due to Covid-19 and how it influenced the academic activities
DEPARTMENT OF OPTOMETRY,
VIDYASAGAR COLLEGE OF in Optometry but no such studies directly depicted their
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OPTOMETRY & VISION SCIENCE, views. This study aims to understand the perception and
AFFILIATED TO MAULANA ABUL views of the educators and the students on online education
KALAM AZAD UNIVERSITY OF
TECHNOLOGY (WB) and its scope in optometry curriculum in shaping the career
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