The pandemic has not only impacted human life but also impacted on education

The disclosure of COVID – 19 saw an increasing popularity of Information technology. Most of the educational institutions has resort to online teaching and learning. The purpose of the study was intended to find out pre-service teachers’ perception of online teaching and learning during the COVID – 19 era. In this study, a quantitative descriptive survey research design was adopted. 
The pandemic has not only impacted human life but also impacted on education.
Most of the educational institutions has resort to online teaching and learning. The swift shift from the face to face or the normal classroom interaction to the online interaction between the teacher and learner emerged with a lot of challenges. Both the teacher and the learner had to adjust to the new ways of interacting during teaching and learning, with the teacher canvasing for new methods of teaching and learners adjusting to the new ways of learning.
With all these challenges stakeholders in the education sector including heads of institutions administrators, teachers, parents, andstudents are takingimportantstrides to ideallyengage learners with the available technology for continuanceof teaching and learning and to bridge the gaps that will be created in the ensuring years as a result of the saga surrounding the COVID –19 pandemics. This has paved way for the information technologist and software developers to be more innovative.