Abstract
The world has immensely been affected due to outbreak of COVID-19. It forced shut down of all organisations and institutions, corporate, transportation everything, so as the educational institutions. In theabsence of traditional classroom teaching and one to one interaction, on-line teaching has emerged as a substitute. Educational institutions and students across the globe have accepted the online platform of learning. However, despite its multiple advantages there are certain limitations of elearning.Some of the studies revealed that the students and teachers experienced much panic and anxiety, since e-learning has never been a formal mode of education before this ongoing pandemic.The current study was aimed to explore the attitude of nursing teachers towards virtual learning. The current study concluded that68% nursing teachers had positive attitude towards virtual classes thus the teachers not having a positive attitude is a matter of concern. There was significant association found between all three demographic profile of the nursing teachers such as gender, age and qualification and their attitude towards virtual class. Female teachers (75%) have more positive attitude towards virtual class than male teachers (43%). Age wise it was found that more the age, was more positive towards virtual classes. According to qualification more graduate teachers were having positive attitude towards virtual classes than postgraduate teachers.Majority of teachers disagree that conducting virtual classes from home is very comfortable and believe that virtual learning is not much effective in comparison to face to face learning method. Majority of the teachers also disagree about improvement of the quality of education through virtual sessions. Keywords: Nursing; student; attitude; towards; virtual; classes; COVID.