Teachers’ experiences of stress and their coping strategies during covid-19 on online education system

The research mainly aims to prove the stress level amongst higher education teachers during online teaching system and the impact of the crisis on individual teachers and identify common issues while taking the online classes and methodologies to adopt in the new normal and the major coping up strategies’ as well, through the study its analysed that so that we can better understand the challenges that teachers are facing and consider how these may be addressed during the crisis and beyond levels. Stress Management The word ‘stress’ is used in physics to refer to the interaction between a force and the resistance to counter that force, and it was Hans Selye who first incorporated this term into the medical lexicon to describe the “nonspecific response of the body to any demand”. Stress means “pressure or tension” exerted on a material object. Stress is a fact of everyday life. When people reach out for help, they are often dealing with circumstances, situations, and stressors in their lives that leave them feeling emotionally and physically overwhelmed. Many people feel that they have very little resources or skills to deal with the high levels of stress they are experiencing. Stress management involves the usage of different techniques along with psychotherapies to control the different levels of stress, mainly chronic stress so as to improve the daily working of an individual and the quality of life. Online education system “Online learning” refers to instructional environments supported by the Internet. Online learning comprises a wide variety of programs that use the Internet within and beyond school walls to provide access to instructional materials as well as facilitate interaction among teachers and students. Online learning can be fully online or blended with face-to-face interactions. Online education also can be defined as an approach to teaching and learning that utilizes internet technologies to communicate and collaborate in an educational context. The physical classroom learning nowadays is no longer applicable for the current younger generations (Gen Y). Internet and distance learning which is generally known as online education plays a vital role in the country's education system. It is undeniable that online education provides ample of benefits to young learners. Fully online learning is a form of distance education in which all instruction and assessments are carried out using online, Internet-based delivery (Picciano and Seaman 2009; U.S. Department of Education 2007).