Author(s)

Md. Mashiur Rahman^1*, Harun Ar-Rashid Mamun², Mohammad Al-Amin¹, Md. Tajul Islam¹

¹Department of Public Administration, Comilla University, Cumilla, Bangladesh.
²Teach for Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted the education of more than 300 million students worldwide. Bangladesh was not in exception. Various educational institutions in Bangladesh have suspended classes for more than two years, and some public and private university teachers have begun to take classes and take homework online. But most students at public universities come from poor or lower-middle-class families, and many of them lack access to mobile devices and the internet, hampering the online teaching system. In this regard, the purpose of this study was to measure students’ perceptions of changes in the knowledge sharing system during the pandemic. Using quantitative methods, 200 responses (students) from Bangladeshi public universities were collected through an online questionnaire between May 2021 and July 2021, according to the study purpose. Interesting findings from the study suggest that most students are comfortable with the changing knowledge-sharing system during the pandemic. It also found that online knowledge-sharing systems during the pandemic have increased students’ technological efficiency. Furthermore, the study found that overall institutional efforts to transform knowledge-sharing systems during the pandemic have been sufficient. However, changing knowledge-sharing systems have negatively impacted mental health. Therefore, there is no evidence that changing the knowledge sharing system during the pandemic has had a positive impact on the overall learning environment. The findings of this study will help policymakers and educational institutions to make the changed knowledge sharing system more inclusive, practical and effective to arrange educational institutions better in future.

Student’s Perception, Knowledge Sharing System, Pandemic, Public Universities

Rahman, M. , Mamun, H. , Al-Amin, M. and Islam, M. (2022) Measuring the Students’ Perception towards Changed Knowledge Sharing System during the Pandemic: A Case on Public Universities of Bangladesh. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 10, 403-430. doi: 10.4236/jss.2022.105026.