Coronavirus Outbreak: Digital classes replace traditional classrooms as schools, colleges shut down
India TodayAs schools, colleges and universities remain closed in several states due to fear of coronavirus spread, more and more students in India are taking to digital tools to continue their education from safe distance of their homes. The tools that are helping remote learning range from a growing number of mobile apps to digital learning management systems and collaboration tools such as Blackboard, Microsoft Teams and Zoom, among others. To encourage remote learning during this challenging period, global communication solution provider Avaya Holdings Corp. announced that it will provide its Avaya Spaces collaboration software for free to educational institutions, including colleges and universities along with non-profit organisations in India till August, 2020. "We are actively engaging with universities and schools to help them coordinate remote worker/education strategies leveraging our expertise and solutions like Avaya Spaces," Agrawal said, adding that since January, the company has seen a 200 per cent increase in video collaboration traffic on the Avaya Spaces platform. Free access to online classes Similarly, ed-tech company Byju's on March 11 announced that it will be providing free access to its complete app to school students till the end of April so that students can continue their learning even when schools remain closed.