E- learning: A boon sparkling since lockdown to improvise Indian society, education system
Education | September 16, 2023 18:19 ISTEducation is reaching even in remote areas where access to campuses is difficult through various e-learning portals.
Education is reaching even in remote areas where access to campuses is difficult through various e-learning portals.
Online learning became significant during the pandemic, allowing content to reach poor and unprivileged children through the click of a button.
Gaurav Munjal, co-founder and CEO, Unacademy Group, said that online learning will only grow as India navigates the pandemic and the blended mode of learning will become mainstream, allowing millions of Indians from small towns and cities to get access to high-quality education.
Presenting the Budget 2022-23, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman acknowledged that due to the pandemic-induced closure of schools, children, particularly in the rural areas, and those from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, other weaker sections, have lost almost two years of formal education.
Starting 2021, and life as we know has changed and it seems clear that the post-Covid world will need an alternate mechanism of education delivery - one that is not subject to physical presence and brick and mortar schooling, but one where a complementary virtual schooling will become de rigueur
The professionals now required assorted balance of distinct skill-sets, like AI which requires professionals to be adept in mathematics as well as coding
Students in Ladakh's Chushul constituency have urged the government to install 4G internet towers in the region for enabling access to online education.
The COVID-19 lockdown came as a shock for many students as coaching classes and schools closed abruptly.
Coronavirus pandemic has triggered new ways of learning and has accelerated the process of adoption of ‘online’ as a viable mode for learning in 2020.
The online education industry in India has come a long way. There was a time when people couldn't make up their minds to subscribe to an online class for their kids. Things, however, have changed a lot, credit to the Covid-induced lockdown.
Haryana government on Saturday informed that it is finalising a scheme to provide tablets to students of Class 8 to Class 12 studying in government schools to promote online education in view of the COVID-19 crisis.
Students from villages like Kumari and Patre in Sanguem taluka, situated almost 100km south of Panaji, have been regularly trekking 3km to reach the Kumari hilltop inside the Netravali Wildlife Sanctuary to get strong signal for their mobile phones and access online classes.
At a time when schools, teachers have shifted to online, digital education due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, several incidents of its misue are also being witnessed. In one such incident which has surfaced, a Lucknow student took the screenshot of her science teachers while she was taking the online class and posted the image on Instragram with objectionable comments.
Hit by a pandemic and then a natural disaster, the children from remote villages in Maharashtra had to deal with Internet disruptions since early June when connectivity along the coastal area of Ratnagiri district became scratchy.
At least 27 per cent students do not have access to smartphones or laptops to attend online classes, while 28 per cent students and parents believe intermittent or lack of electricity is one of the major concerns hindering teaching-learning, according to a survey by the NCERT.
In the wake of coronavirus pandemic all the schools have been instructed by the state governments to switch to online education.
Google has introduced a new product for non-Classroom users called Assignments, an application for the learning management system (LMS) that gives educators a faster, simpler way to distribute, analyze and grade student work.
Online education is not a substitute for school education and its purpose is to keep the learning process moving, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Tuesday.
The apex court Bench, comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and S. Ravindra Bhat, issued the notice on the plea filed by parents settled in the Middle East.
Managements of various private schools met on Saturday evening and decided to resume online classes from Monday after considering requests made by parents, Self-financed Schools Federation spokesperson Deepak Rajguru said.
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