It has been completed 3 months of aftereffects of COVID-19 impact in India. The industrial effect is worse, economic activities are on a complete halt, and everything is at a stop from transport, shops, and malls to everything in need. But education seems to have got its wings ahead it’s smoothly transcending into a new phase of lockdown 3.0. Office work from home and studies work from home is the new feel-good factor in this difficult stage of COVID-19 uncertainties.
IIM (Indian Institute of management) and IIT (Indian Institute Of Technology) both have started delivering online classes to their students. The schools in Pan India which were being closed since March 12, 2020, have effectively managed in connecting their students to online learning platforms.
Teacher and student interaction ratio and the attendance hike in classes are commendable, for fair management of education bodies. Every education sector, from higher classes to school classes, is utilizing the cost-effective high-speed internet penetration in India. All the credit goes to Mr. Narendra Modi’s dream policies for Digital India, demonetization, and rapid progress in information technology mass growth in recent years.
While the online teaching methodology for schools in India is not that, teachers effectively provide classwork and homework on Whatsapp, higher education such as engineering needs more focus on, “lecture based online educations”.
For proper dissemination of semester lectures, engineering faculties make use of video conferencing. There are apps such as Microsoft Office 365 which is a complete package for online classes. Everything is properly managed in this app with enhanced functionalities to monitor faculties, and student lecture interactions to keep a track of the student’s attendance.
The theory part is covered well with timely Webinars conducted by the engineering college management faculties and it is the new norm that is gaining popularity in delivering classes.
Mr. Sandeep Singhal honorable Director of JB Institute of Technology (JBIT), Dehradun, has the opinion that technology and education can go a long way in delivering the best to students saving their loss in studies.
Although COVID-19 is a long fight to go tech-savvy students and dedicated faculties have minimized the effects of Corona wide scale effects on college routine.
Now, students and teachers easily adapt to new teaching and online learning platforms, which are made available by cost-effective high-end technology. The college management does not bother, about the complexities of attendance, and the shortage of semester requirements, as class attendance; which happens to be around 60-65 percent in the real classrooms has actually hiked to almost 90 percent in the online classrooms.
Overcoming parents’ worries, the students are also positive as they can now conveniently attend these online classes, without commuting to the college premises thus saving valuable time which they can utilize in their studies.