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.