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During the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Brunei Darussalam in March 2019, higher education institutions such as Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) had shifted the conventional teaching and learning approach from mainly face-to-face to fully online teaching and learning. This included the education graduate faculty of UBD i.e. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education (SHBIE). The aim of this paper was to investigate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the sudden transition of teaching and learning from the perspectives of SHBIE’s academic teaching staff. The online questionnaire was distributed to the teaching staff via email in April 2020. The response rate of the online questionnaire was 88%. Descriptive statistics was used to analyse the data where frequency and percentage were used to describe the pattern of the responses. It was found that half of the staff perceived there were more interactions with students through online teaching activities. However, about 77% and 46% of the staff mentioned that their physical and mental well-being respectively were also affected by the transition to online teaching.

COVID-19; Educators’ Perspectives; Online Teaching and Learning