LIVE STREAM CLASSROOMS DURING PANDEMIC 2020: COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PERCEPTION OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

Due to the pandemic situation of the COVID-19 the live stream had being adopted for online learning in higher education system of Pakistan. The bidirectional communication in live stream is synchronized connection via Internet, such as video-audio conferencing though the software of the Microsoft team, zoom, google meet and Skype had utilized for learning. The purpose of the research were to compare the perception of teachers and students regarding the live stream classrooms during outbreak covid-19. The study were significant to teachers, students, new researchers and policy makers. The study were descriptive survey method. The research were quantitative and questionnaire were utilized by researcher to collect the respondent’s responses. Whereas descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyzed the data. The results of the study were depicted that mostly respondents were not satisfied though online live stream classrooms, there is no difference between the perception of the teachers and students regarding the live stream classrooms during outbreak covid-19. Students were not self-motivated and to maintain discipline in live sessions is very difficult for teachers as well. Technical issues had made class boring, cause the cognitive exertion and become time consuming. The subjects like science mathematics and engineering cannot taught properly. Learners can engage through video conferencing and interactive discussion. Moreover research recommended that teachers should trained for these techniques, advance applications should provide by Government for online learning, interactive discussion is the best way to engage learners in live stream. Discussion method may be used and video conferencing may be preferred

Pakistani Newspapers on Peace Talks with Tahrik e Taliban Pakistan

Negotiations between two parties always have newsworthiness. Results of the negotiations can be strongly influenced by the media coverage. Pakistan's government was also involved in peace negotiation with Tahrik e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) during January and February 2014. It was the most discussing issue in Pakistani media at that time. The aim of this research is to analyze the editorial policy of three Pakistani English language newspapers; Dawn, Nation and The News to check their favorable or unfavorable behavior regarding peace talks during January and February 2014. Agenda setting, priming and farming theories were used in this study. Qualitative content analysis method was used in this study to analyze the editorial policy of these three newspapers. Findings revealed that all these three newspapers gave significant coverage to the peace talks issue but Nation gave more coverage to the issue. Findings also revealed that Dawn and The News, most of the time showed neutral behavior but tilted towards unfavorable position regarding peace talks. Nation showed strongly unfavorable behavior regarding peace talks. So it is concluded that all these three newspapers were mostly against the peace talks and government and media were not on the same page on the issue of peace talks