Education during pandemic: Challenges faced by educational institutions and students

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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 suspended their offline classes and started exploring online classes so that students don’t have to suffer in their academic session and syllabus can proceed.

 

There was advantage for some coaching institutes who already had presence in online market. Students immediately shifted their focus to these online platforms. But, looking at the duration of lockdown period and in anticipation of losing these students to competitors, almost all offline players also started online classes by March end. Institutes agreed that their transition to online teaching had not been very difficult. However, significant investment in infrastructure and additional training for teachers and students was required.

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