The impact of COVID-19 Pandemic-A sudden changeover to digital education

The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic nationwide has a severe impact in the system of education all over the country. Before the pandemic situation, children were going to schools and colleges as usual and the education system was normal. With the sudden arise of this COVID-19, there is a sudden changeover in the education system. Both school and college education has turned into digital. E-learning has become the most popular way of education during this situation. The nationwide lockdown has forced the educational institutions to send the students to homes which have a high impact in the process of usual learning practice.

There is an increase in the usage of online educational tools and applications with the sudden move to the digital education. The students are learning remotely using digital platforms. With the sudden lockdown nationwide, there is an anxiety among the students community about their education. With the emergence of digital education, children are in a situation to be with the electronic gadgets all the time. Although during the initial stages, children were anxious about the online education, but they adapted to the methodology when days move on.

The structure of tutoring, educating and learning, appraisal systems has changed altogether. It is a vital time to the training division—loads up tests, nursery education confirmations, entrance process of colleges and serious tests, are completely stopped during this period. A group of tuition based educational institutions could receive internet learning and teching techniques. The students, in spite of the botched chances for learning are dependent upon monetary and communal pressure.

The virulent disease has basically upset the advanced education division too, which is a determinant of a nation’s monetary future. The disease has turned the hundreds of years old, chalk and talk teaching methodology to e-learning driven by modernization. This interruption in the transference of instruction is pushing policymakers to think of how to drive assurance at scale while guaranteeing broad e-learning arrangements and managing the computerized separate. Individuals are there in the industry, which produces everything from internet learning programming to devices that track the competency of students. While the work to progress eye to eye guidance to online conditions would mean an underlying huge increment in working hours, the outcomes for certain teachers and a few students so far are promising.

Corona virus related interruption may give teachers time to reevaluate the issue. Technology has substituted the openings, and will stay on supposing a profession in teaching community in the prospect. In our current situation where information is a mouse-click process, the work of the instructor must vary as well. Not since World War II have such a large number of nations around the globe seen schools and instructive establishments go into lockdown at around a similar time and for a similar explanation.

In the current scenario, instructors all over the world have been debating the necessity to reconsider how they educate students in the future. This scenario may be the interruption that the sector expected to get every one of us to reconsider how they teach, and question what they have to educate and what they are setting up. Along these lines, as educators struggle with the better approaches for speaking with students from our study rooms and chat theaters, it is a decent an ideal opportunity to consider how this upsetting emergency can enable us to characterize what realizing ought to resemble for generations.

The deadly disease has brought educational establishments over the globe being restricted to out of nowhere tackle and use the system of accessible innovative gadgets to prepare content for remote learning in all segments. Educators and instructors all over the world are encountering supplementary chances to do things any other way and with more prominent adaptability bringing about expected advantages in ease of use to training for students over the world. These are new methods of supervision that have newly been to a great scope undiscovered especially in the field of education.

Students staying in remote locations are struggling to access the internet in some cases and those students are not able to cope up with the current education system that is moving on due to this pandemic. Some of the school students need the help of their parents in attending these online classes. In cases like, if the parents are illiterates, then those students are in situation that they may not be able to move on with this type of digital education. Parents are in a hectic situation to handle the economic crisis caused due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There are cases in which the family is not even capable of buying the electronic gadgets to attend this kind of digital education.

Although the digital learning is a good initiative in the field of education and current technological development, it may not be a sustainable solution to the education crisis that has occurred due to COVID-19. This is due to the different cases and struggles faced by people during the pandemic. There is a demand in online learning platforms and the number of users using the already available platforms has increased much more compared with pre-COVID-19 situation. The way of teaching has been changed and there is a enormous reach out to students through chat boxes, video calls, video lectures, documents sharing and presentation sharing.

Many personalities discuss and throw their ideas about this sudden change to digital education as whether it is a boom or bane considering different situations prevailing in the country. There are some disadvantages like people suffer from poor bandwidth usage, unreliable internet connection, unavailability of digital equipments and many more. I feel that for people who have the proper access to the technologies and digital gadgets, the sudden changeover to digital education is highly effective in a number of ways. The students are able to learn faster online and at their own pace.

“I dream of a Digital India where high-speed Digital Highways unite the Nation.”-A quote by our honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As per his quotes let us all dream for a Digital India and unite our nation with the Digital Highways.