Challenges to Education after COVID-19

Challenges to Education after COVID-19

Government of India is taking all necessary steps to ensure that we are prepared well to face the challenge and threat posed by the growing pandemic of COVID-19 the Corona Virus. 

The COVID-19 crisis may well change our world and our global outlook; it may also teach us about how education needs to change to be able to better prepare our young learners for what the future might hold. Technology in education is the biggest change in teaching we will ever see. For years, policy makers, teachers, parents and students alike have been weighing the potential benefits of technology in education against its risks and consequences.

We will need to redefine the role of the educator in the classroom, students are able to gain access to knowledge, and even learn a technical skill, through a few clicks on their phones, tablets and computers. The increase of digital and internet-based learning has certainly provided a strong platform for better communication between the teachers and the students. Educators across the world are experiencing new possibilities to do things differently and with greater flexibility resulting in potential benefits in accessibility to education for students across the world. Technology has stepped into the breach, and will continue to play a key role in educating future generations.

Digital learning can be defined as web-based learning which effectively makes use of the information technology to impart knowledge to the students. In fact, this has been introduced only a few years ago and has got a tremendous response from all over the world. The careers of this year’s university graduates may be severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. They have experienced major teaching interruptions in the final part of their studies, they are experiencing major interruptions in their assessments, and finally they are likely to graduate at the beginning of a major global recession.

The remote teaching and learning efforts that all our professors and students are now engaged in do not resemble what we think of as traditional online education. Quality online learning programs are high-input operations, requiring both time to develop and significant investments to run. Very few colleges and universities were doing absolutely nothing with online education pre-COVID-19. 

This post-pandemic understanding will change how schools plan for, manage and fund online education. Gone will be the days when individual schools within a university will be able to go their own way with online education. There is a real risk of regression for children whose basic, foundational learning (reading, math, languages, etc.) was not strong to begin with. And millions of children who have already been deprived of their right to education,

Large-scale, national efforts to utilise technology in support of remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic are emerging and evolving quickly. As a result of the coronavirus, many schools have quickly become 'virtual'. Much is known about what works, and what doesn't, when it comes to 'virtual schooling’.

The school or the institute which has decided to opt for the e-learning teaching procedure do have a vital role to play here. Either they can hire teachers and tutors who have comprehensive knowledge of digital learning tools and methods or else they can make proper arrangements to train the teachers about how to use the digital programs effectively. It is altogether a new experience for both the students and the teachers and inspires them to do something constructive while gaining the knowledge through advanced tools.

SWAYAM (www.swayam.gov.in) : one of the major initiatives by Hon’ble Prime Minister 0f India Sri Narendra Modi is launching of India’s first Government MOOCs platform, which is leading the MOOCs platform across the globe.SWAYAM (Study web of Active Learning for the Young Aspiring Minds) provides an integrated platform for online courses, using ICT and covering courses from High School to Post Graduate Subjects including skill sector courses to ensure that every student benefits from learning material through ICT. High quality material can be used by students through multimedia on anytime, anywhere.