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online classes worry students across india

online classes worry students across india

The thought of not visiting college and studying from house is always sounded exciting, until it's completed with the correct management. It is difficult to attend classes from home while spending time with family as compare to when they attend class offline by going college. However, e-learning is not new, as now its look in trend due to the pandemic of COVID-19. It is a necessary step which has been taken by the education department to convert the education into a virtual mode while the duration of lockdown. 

According to UNESCO, Due to the pandemic of COVID-19, some 1.37 billion students in 138 countries have been affected by closure of school and university. Almost 60.2 million teachers of schools and colleges are not able to take class offline. Since, the whole country is under lockdown so the e-education is only option left, since the whole country is under lockdown. University faculties are making accounts on online video conferencing platforms such as Zoom, Skype and Google meet to engage with their students.

There are some advantages of online classes that are worth consideration. One of the best advantage of online classes is adjusting learning into the existing schedule. The flexibility will help in maintaining a job while working on education. Students who are attending online classes are getting more time to complete a course, within a time period provided by their teachers. This will allow them to spend more time with their family without sacrificing that time on completing the work. And it also provide an option to do any online job simultaneously.

Online education is more affordable option than offline education because the expenses of going to college is one of the biggest reasons which aspire students to hold back from enrolling in a program. In addition the travelling cost can also be save by them by doing online classes, and it also enable the option to earn money by doing any job.

Today, online classes are ongoing but it doesn't mean that it has reached to a state of perfection. There are some several challenges which have been seen due to the sudden shift of education to virtual mode. According to a report issued on April 21, given by United Nations Educational, Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO) highlighted the concern about online shift.

While giving a global perspective UNESCO has noted that, “Half of the total number of students, some (826 million) students has been kept out of the classroom by the COVID-19 pandemic because they do not have computer or electronic devices and 43% (706 million) have no internet at their home and at a time when digitally-based distance learning is used to secure educational continuity in the vast majority of countries.

What Are The Advantages of Online Courses-? 

1. Online courses are convenient and flexible. 

2. It brings education right to your home.
3. It offer more individual attention and help you to meet interesting people.
4. It provide you real world skills, which promote your life-long learning.
5. It also have financial benefits.
6. It teach you to be self-disciplined which help you in connecting with peoples globally.

What Are The Disadvantages of Online Courses? 

1. Online courses take more time than on-campus classes, because it require good time-management skills.
2. It may create a sense of isolation.
3. It gives you more freedom, perhaps, more than you can handle.
4. It require you to be an active learner.
5. It don't have an instructor hounding you to stay on task.
6. It makes you responsible for your own learning.

Struggle for parents

E-education has been turned out to be a new thing for school kids and more than them, their parents are struggling in understanding the e-assignment. Many school students have not received their school course and we know that without textbooks it is very difficult for them to understand and keep up with the virtual classroom activities. As per the parent's point of view, E-education is not helping their kids and they also fear that will their children get sufficient time to prepare for exams as they were getting in normal days. School students of age 4-12 usually not have their own mobile phones and some students don't know how to use them. Due to this reason teachers are connecting with them through their parent's phone which is also sometimes indulges parents in the process and it consumes their time also. Those parents who are working from home are basically struggling with this problem because they have to choose one thing between their work and child's education.

Privacy concern-

Over the past few months, the teleconference software named as Zoom has seen explosive growth, it is easy and convenient in use. But this comfort has also come with increased scrutiny and a slew of uncovered security which were screw-up. Privacy concerned people are also finding it not secure to use.
Of course, the current situation is unpredicted one but, we should always have to be prepared for such situations. The issue of online teaching and online exams is not the main issue, the real question is why our education system is so behind in this digital era. Our educational planner have to focus on more technological advancement so that they can provide a better and secure way of education.

Uniform and effective online education in India — what is being done and what more is possible?

There is a global recognition of the need for inclusive education policies during the pandemic. To make online education more effective, accessible and safer, various online resources (links listed below), training programs and schemes have been developed by the Government of India for students, teachers and educational institutions. The teaching community has come together to form a nationwide informal and voluntary network of teachers, called the Discussion Forum of Online Teaching (DFOT), to discuss different aspects of online teaching, and create repositories of essential resources.

Cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) could open new possibilities for innovative and personalized approaches catering to different learning abilities. IIT Kharagpur has collaborated with Amazon Web Services to develop the National AI Resource Platform (NAIRP), the future possibilities of which include monitoring eye movement, motion and other parameters for better teaching and learning. Google has also indicated future support in AI based education in India. 

Parting thoughts

Online education opens up a lot of possibilities for students and teachers alike. Yet, it may also widen the inequalities in the socio-economic fabric of India. All our policies and interventions with regard to online education should strive to be inclusive. Good vision, sincere efforts and time will show India the way ahead.

Conclusion-

Yes, online classes can be worry for students across India, but we (student) have to take this in positive way. We all know that we are dealing with the pandemic of COVID-19 due to which continuation of offline classes is not possible. The online classes is the only option left to continue education of all the students. This option is chosen by the education authority for the better future of all the students.

"PADHEGA INDIA TABHI TO BADHEGA INDIA" 

AUTHOR BY : Adv. Maitry Nirav Gatorwala