Faculties Insight
Ms. Asha Binu Raj Assistant Professor-OB & HRM, IBS Hyderabad
Disruption of Online Education
COVID-19 has brought unprecedented changes in the almost all sectors, including education. The pandemic has resulted in closing down of educational institutions across the world. Across the globe, billions of children are now studying from home. Due to the impact of COVID-19, a dramatic change is experienced in education sector. As a result, the mode of education has disrupted significantly, with a new face of e-learning, which has given rise to remotely managed education program through digital platforms. Though the beginning of year 2020 has witnessed many challenges during the adoption of online learning, and a gradual shift from the traditional classroom learning to the online learning methodology, slowly teachers and students have extensively adapted themselves to the changed new normal situation within few months of the COVID-19 period. A sudden transition from the traditional learning and
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teaching to the online mode is still ambiguous under the given circumstances. It remains doubtful among many online educational platforms if it will continue to persist in the post-pandemic period, and if so, how this transition would impact the global education market. For many, it had been a struggle to establish a new system of education and learning management through online platforms, and for many it had been an opportunity to develop new tools and digital modes of education. Apart from the educational institutions, the educational applications and digital platforms identified this as an opportunity to provide services to other institutions in commercial way. From an academic perspective, we need to equip ourselves with skills to smoothly transit through the present unwarranted situation, and students are also expected to adapt themselves to a greater degree of
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