Education during pandemic: Challenges faced by educational institutions and students
Current pandemic, Covid-19 has forced education institutions including universities, coaching, schools across India and the world to suspend their physical classrooms and shift to online classes. In India, while this transition has been smooth for most private institutes, the public ones are still adapting. There have also been debates on the nature of classes and the future of examination and evaluation—whether they could be conducted online or not. While faculty grapples with new ways of managing this sudden transition from offline classroom teaching to online education, students are left clinging on to their mobile phones and computer screens. If this continues for some time, how would higher education is affected? What are some of the deeper issues that require introspection? And what does this mean for the students going forward? Getting Digital Infrastructure Ready: As soon as the Covid-19 crisis broke out in India, as per Govt. directives all educational institutions sus