A Meta-Analysis on Online Classes for Hotel Management Students at Chennai During Covid-19

Teaching in the hotel management courses involves both practical and theory classes, as this is a skill based professional and practical oriented course were teaching has to encompass 50% of practical lab classes to develop the skills and talents of the students and the remaining 50% for teaching theory, which imparts knowledge to understand the concepts, and ideas accordingly to operate in the departments of hotel industry. Since learning provides an opportunity to student on acquiring new knowledge and skill with a positive attitude that motivates them to work in hotel industry, due to the outbreak corona virus which has disrupted the classroom teaching and thrown into disarray of practical and theory classes along with exam schedules, in addition to force the students and teachers to stay in indoors. The purpose of this study is to recognize the best tools in handling online classes. Furthermore, to know their participation in online classes with comparison of offline classes. However, teaching and learning process have not been stopped with the latest technology to meet the drift by Covid-19 pandemic situation, social media application (SMA) acts as a right tool for teaching and learning process.