Tag: covid 19

Impact of Covid-19 on Education.

As the CBSE Board results get declared this week, it became evidently clear that a lot of disruptions happened in the Education sector due to COVID Pandemic situation. As per an UNESCO report, the pandemic will unfavorably affect more than 290 million understudies across 22 nations because of the conclusion of schools in the wake of the lockdown. And that is what happened.

We were clearly not prepared for one such situation, however an urgent supplement had to take over. Which was online education. Not that virtual education wouldn’t have come otherwise, but it would have taken some time to get acquainted with. So, we can actually say, COVID Pandemic accelerated the inevitable.

In the course of recent years, e-learning has seen an upgrade because of the omnipresent Internet network, the expansion of cell phones and huge advances in innovation.

Thus, calling for further innovations and functions in the Ed-tech industry.

This acceleration of Virtual Education has brought about several advantages for the education sector, which include cost reduction, flexibility, More networking opportunities, better time management and numerous others.

Now, certainly the infrastructure and lack of expertise with digital equipment is still a challenge for many, but this is only supposed to grow with time. Brick and mortar kind of schools cannot all of a sudden switch with virtual classrooms but it is surely in the process and getting only better with internet connectivity.

Future of Online Education.

As e-learning platforms witness a sudden surge in downloads during the pandemic, it became utmost clear that online learning is the future of education.

Coming to rescue were platforms like zoom, WebEx etc. that enabled webinar and online classes.

But how did it all happen? And it is temporary or its going to stay this way? Are we still ready to embrace this new way? About a lot of questions arise with it.

COVID-19 Pandemic came as a realization of our dependence on physical ways of learning. It took quite some time for all institutes to embrace this shift of classrooms to virtual rooms. But it also enabled us to rediscover and come up with better solutions. In conducting exams, organizing discussions, learning procedures, all the processes saw a shift from regular.

And the best part, it made us realize, Education needs a revolution too.

While everything is transforming into the digital version today, education needs that morphing as well.

Why Online learning?

Simple,

  1. It’s more flexible than traditional learning. Both teacher and student can adapt to their ways in a virtual classroom.
  2. It’s more accessible. You can be anywhere doing anything but all you need is a device and connectivity to join the classes.
  3. It offers a wider range. In terms of courses, platforms and dimensions, online learning offers much more range of options than traditional would.
  4. It’s cost saving. All the expense of location, maintenance, equipments, textbooks etc. can be replaced by little expenses of pdf, e-books etc.

There is more than one benefit of e-learning and hence it is surely here to stay. Having had a tenure of more than 3 months depending on online education, we are getting acquainted with the ways of it. So, it’s time we accept this shift, be agile and keep pace with changing environment.