Abstract:
Current COVID-19 pandemic is considered one of the main deterrents for pursuing physical
education around the world. Educational institutions moved their corresponding activities onto
the online platform. Since the pandemic occurred unexpectedly and abruptly, educational
institutions were not prepared for this abrupt transition from physical education to online-based
education. Unavailability of Internet and proper devices among the students, lack of training,
and the unwillingness of the institutions in integrating a new way of providing education were
the main reasons behind the less prevalence of online education in Bangladesh. This survey
data was collected during the months of April 2021 to July 30 2021 when the Bangladeshi
educational institutions had been officially shut down physical teaching activities due to the
ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The survey questionnaire was designed to collect data in five
segments: demographic questions, devices and internet related question, physical education
based question, online education based question and finally comparisons for both online and
physical educational activities More than 344 undergraduate and graduate students, who are
currently studying in 29 public and private universities. Besides descriptive statistics, this
article also includes the results of exploratory factor analysis that potentially can serve as a
good reference for future studies.
