Paradigm shift in online learning post-Covid era helping unprivileged kids to rewrite their destiny
2 years, 8 months ago

Paradigm shift in online learning post-Covid era helping unprivileged kids to rewrite their destiny

India TV News  

Paradigm shift in online learning post-Covid era helping unprivileged kids to rewrite their destiny Online learning became significant during the pandemic, allowing content to reach poor and unprivileged children through the click of a button. The situation was no different in Delhi slums, where AROH Foundation has been implementing its projects like Padho aur Badho and remedial education project ‘RISE’ for more than a decade now, having covered over 50,000 needy children till date. While Azim Premji University highlighted that around 82% of children lost the foundational ability of the previous year’s learning during COVID lockdown, we enquired RISE children about it. Calling RISE a futuristic project, Neelam Gupta, founder president & CEO, AROH Foundation, said, “Especially after the pandemic, RISE is proud to claim that learning never stopped even for a day, as the NGO was far-sighted enough to understand the digital shift of education much before.

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The role of AI and blended learning in shaping the future of education
1 year, 8 months ago

The role of AI and blended learning in shaping the future of education

The Hindu  

As we stand at the dawn of a new era in education, it is time to reevaluate the effectiveness of the current smart classroom technology. With students and educators becoming more comfortable with online learning platforms, the concept of blended learning, which combines traditional classroom experiences with online learning, is becoming more relevant than ever. Blended learning offers several advantages …

Online education is inadequate for reasons we have long known
1 year, 8 months ago

Online education is inadequate for reasons we have long known

Live Mint  

Why does online education always fall so short of its promise? Even the biggest champions of online education usually do not claim that it can develop values and fundamental capacities, so this piece focuses on goals that are to do with knowledge and some directly related capacities, such as critical thinking. Two kinds of knowledge are goals of education: ‘know-what’ …

From Pandemic Necessity to Future Revolution: Why Online Education is Here to Stay
1 year, 11 months ago

From Pandemic Necessity to Future Revolution: Why Online Education is Here to Stay

News 18  

Even before the advent and unfortunate spread of Covid-19, online education was slowly spreading roots in India. The sheer scale and speed of the spread has helped to speed up its implementation across the country, and we are left with the question: Is online education the new norm going forward? Online education is already the norm in several countries across …

National Education Day: Here's why it is important to develop skills outside the classroom
2 years, 4 months ago

National Education Day: Here's why it is important to develop skills outside the classroom

India Today  

The pandemic alerted the world to the need to revamp traditional education practices. As a result, the ed-tech industry witnessed a boom and the number of online platforms offering various courses grew significantly. LEARNING BEYOND THE CLASSROOMS: BENEFITS PROMOTING GREATER ACCESS With the increase in emphasis on online learning, students who are willing to learn but do not have access …

Schools are going online in disasters, worsening disruption
2 years, 6 months ago

Schools are going online in disasters, worsening disruption

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Two and a half years after schools switched to …

COVID Blues: Enough about Exams, Placements; Ask Students How They’re Doing
2 years, 10 months ago

COVID Blues: Enough about Exams, Placements; Ask Students How They’re Doing

News 18  

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to send shock waves throughout the world, education is witnessing unprecedented changes. According to the World Bank, 94 per cent of students – 1.6 billion – were out of educational institutions during lockdowns. An estimated 258 million children were out of school, and the Learning Poverty rate in developing countries was 53 per cent – …

How Covid-19 pandemic has changed the education system, forever
3 years, 1 month ago

How Covid-19 pandemic has changed the education system, forever

India TV News  

The Covid-19 has resulted in prolonged schools shutting all across the world. Role of digital technology Digital technology with easy access to the internet helped bring remote learning opportunities, online classrooms, and access to high-quality education even in rural and semi-urban locations. Online learning=Flexible learning Online learning can help students pursue highly personalized learning programs; these combined with hands-on exercises, …

On International Day of Education, here are five emerging learning trends
3 years, 2 months ago

On International Day of Education, here are five emerging learning trends

India TV News  

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 24 January as International Day of Education to celebrate the pivotal role that education plays in creating peace and development. Education will be hybrid and digitally adaptive Rajesh says, "According to a post on unesco.org, 258 million children and youth in the world still do not attend school and over 617 million children and …

Year-ender 2021: How Covid-19 pandemic enabled EdTech to become leading sector for growth
3 years, 3 months ago

Year-ender 2021: How Covid-19 pandemic enabled EdTech to become leading sector for growth

India Today  

The increased adoption by institutions, professionals, parents, and students marks the growth. Adoption of EdTech tools and products by students, teachers, and institutes The pandemic enabled EdTech to become the leading sector for growth. Even while educational technology, or edtech, has been around for a while, the worldwide lockdown caused by the pandemic was undoubtedly the driving force for its …

76% of Indian Students Faced Learning Losses During Pandemic: UNICEF
3 years, 4 months ago

76% of Indian Students Faced Learning Losses During Pandemic: UNICEF

News 18  

As many as 76 per cent of parents of children between the ages of 5-13 years, and 80 per cent of adolescents between 14-18 years, reported learning less due to extended closure of schools, as per a survey by UNICEF. “With the safe reopening of schools across the country after more than a year, the children’s Charter of Demands focuses …

10 popular trends to deal education crisis post pandemic
3 years, 4 months ago

10 popular trends to deal education crisis post pandemic

India Today  

The covid-19 pandemic has totally changed the educational scenario in very unpredictable ways. From the previous year, as schools moved to online learning and teachers scrambled to deal with different ways of teaching, many students and parents gained a new appreciation for the value of self-care. STEAM curriculum Earlier you have heard about STEM, which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, …

How teachers in India adopted hybrid learning during Covid
3 years, 4 months ago

How teachers in India adopted hybrid learning during Covid

India Today  

Students living in poverty-stricken areas are more likely to lack the educational tools like mobile phones and laptops that make learning at home successful. Approaches need to be followed in Hybrid Model: The nationwide closings and the associated shift to distance learning and the growing digital divide affected students, teachers, educators, and parents equally. We need to think about how …

School Closure, Digital Divide, Learning Gap: Post-COVID India Needs Resilient Education System
3 years, 4 months ago

School Closure, Digital Divide, Learning Gap: Post-COVID India Needs Resilient Education System

News 18  

Education remains the solitary ray of hope for many to break the vicious circle of poverty. However, the data released by the Unified District Information System for Education for the academic session 2019-20 shows that 78 per cent of schools in India don’t have internet facilities and more than 61 per cent do not even have computers. Approximately 12 crore …

Online Education Has Arrived with COVID-19. But Quality, Accessibility Gaps Must be Fixed
3 years, 5 months ago

Online Education Has Arrived with COVID-19. But Quality, Accessibility Gaps Must be Fixed

News 18  

The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted children’s education. The School Education Department of Madhya Pradesh, for instance, has initiated various digital learning interventions such as Radio School, Digital Learning Enhancement Programme, Hamara Ghar Hamara Vidyalaya programme, Shiksha ka Kona, mohalla classes and Knowledge Hub for Electronic Learning, among others. Some studies have examined the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the …

How learning techniques have evolved with better learner outcomes
3 years, 5 months ago

How learning techniques have evolved with better learner outcomes

India Today  

As the nature of work is changing in a digital economy, so too are approaches to learning to meet both the needs and demands of those requiring flexible, collaborative, and digital solutions. In a flipped classroom approach, the learner activates their knowledge in their own time, typically using online materials such as activities, videos, and texts; and in the class …

Covid-19 impact: Here's why online education is the new way of learning
3 years, 6 months ago

Covid-19 impact: Here's why online education is the new way of learning

India Today  

A teacher is reading out lessons loudly to a classroom while rows of desks filled with students listen attentively early in the morning. This massive switch in the learning mediums allowed growth in the sector of online education and the Edtech companies in India, which were already on a high growth trajectory even before the pandemic, with Google and KPMG …

Not just students, teachers too had their share of struggles switching from offline to online classes
3 years, 6 months ago

Not just students, teachers too had their share of struggles switching from offline to online classes

India TV News  

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned around things for the education sector. Sumeet Mehta, Co-founder & CEO of LEAD, which claims to be one of the fastest growing EdTech companies in the country, explained how his platform helped teachers during the transition phase. My heartfelt thanks to LEAD.” Monika Pawar, Professor at Shubh Memorial International School, Akhnoor “My teaching career started …

We must not sleepwalk into a global education crisis
3 years, 7 months ago

We must not sleepwalk into a global education crisis

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. At the same time, global gross …

How is the pandemic changing ways of teaching?
3 years, 8 months ago

How is the pandemic changing ways of teaching?

India TV News  

Before the pandemic, digital education was primarily used in situations where learning opportunities were curtailed by distance or other factors. Factors to reshape education Flexibility Accessibility Ability to democratise learning Create borderless global classrooms Bring infrastructural costs down. Digital education best suited during pandemic For now, digital education is plugging gaps in a world where in-person learning is fraught with …

No Tech Utopia: A Blended Learning System Must Recognise Real-world Challenges
3 years, 9 months ago

No Tech Utopia: A Blended Learning System Must Recognise Real-world Challenges

News 18  

In the wake of the Covid pandemic, the University Grants Commission in its concept note on ‘Blended Mode of Teaching and Learning’ has recommended blended learning, under which up to 40 per cent of a course will be taught online and the rest 60 per cent through traditional, offline methods in all higher education institutions. Online learning began to be …

The Balancing Act of Online Schooling
3 years, 9 months ago

The Balancing Act of Online Schooling

News 18  

The pre covid-19 times; Bittersweet memories arise when we reminisce of the past from the point of view of a student. Attending my first online class with zeal making notes to slowly progressing to taking in the main objectives and tuning out the rest as the year progressed This power of being selective –where you can choose to pay attention …

How pedagogical approach in learning needs to change to learn in b-schools in pandemic
3 years, 10 months ago

How pedagogical approach in learning needs to change to learn in b-schools in pandemic

India Today  

It is up to instructors to seize them to create conscientious, diligent, and caring instructional options that students can accept and comprehend. The use of online resources thrived significantly among other resources at this time as one could search for information and materials through online blogs, papers, websites, and other related resources. Challenges However, there are several challenges also to …

Online classroom: How students can build an engaging virtual experience
3 years, 11 months ago

Online classroom: How students can build an engaging virtual experience

India Today  

For as long as we can remember, learning has taken place in the classroom. Studies have revealed that students who learn online perform just as well as their peers in brick and mortar classrooms, as physical location is not the only determining factor of a holistic learning environment. With online learning, the focus benefit lies in giving students control of …

No fun in their virtual classrooms?
3 years, 11 months ago

No fun in their virtual classrooms?

Hindustan Times  

As online classrooms become the order of the day, let's hear it from the students about their experiences and challenges. Nishad Neelambaran and Kavita Awaasthi The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has given rise to ‘new normal’ in education system — online classes. Lenovo Smarter Ed Scholarship — An initiative by Hindustan Times, gives students from class five to 12 to share …

84% of teachers facing challenges during online classes: Survey
4 years ago

84% of teachers facing challenges during online classes: Survey

India Today  

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the education sector globally. Online class challenges linked to lack of teacher preparedness The online survey conducted by Learning Spiral showed that while children face issues in accessing education digitally, teachers face issues in delivering education through digital mediums. A staggering 84% of teachers reported facing challenges in delivering education digitally with close to half …

Learning in a pandemic: An online education executive shares tips
4 years, 1 month ago

Learning in a pandemic: An online education executive shares tips

Hindustan Times  

In the darkest moments of the past year, Stephanie Dua, co-founder and president of HOMER, a New York City-based online learning program, turned to early lessons on hard work and optimism she learned on her father’s almond and walnut farm. “You always knew nutters because your fingers would turn black from all the nuts’ skins that you were picking,” said …

5 things to expect from education sector in 2021
4 years, 1 month ago

5 things to expect from education sector in 2021

India Today  

The Year 2020 saw disruption in the global education system like no other year in our living memory. Practices, which were previously considered impossible have now become possible due to the quick and concerted efforts by educationists who seized the opportunity to find new ways to make learning possible and managing to keep children and parents positively motivated and engaged …

From real-time learning to sustainability and innovation: How B-schools rewriting curriculum in post-Covid era
4 years, 2 months ago

From real-time learning to sustainability and innovation: How B-schools rewriting curriculum in post-Covid era

India TV News  

The pandemic has forced several business schools to rewrite their curriculum to move forward in the new session. To foster analytical and critical thinking abilities of students and help them make data-based decisions and inculcate cross-cultural perspectives so they can function seamlessly in a global business environment, business schools are focusing majorly on working on real-time projects with industry professionals …

How Global Teacher Award Winner Ranjitsinh Disale's Methods are Boon for Tribal Students in Pandemic
4 years, 2 months ago

How Global Teacher Award Winner Ranjitsinh Disale's Methods are Boon for Tribal Students in Pandemic

News 18  

“In the last one month, people only wanted to click selfies with me. They rarely showed any interest in my thoughts or ideas," said Ranjitsinh Disale, when asked about his newfound fame as the winner of The Global Teacher Prize 2020 in December. Disale’s star teacher status in Paritewadi is a result of years he had spent communicating with parents, …

‘I feel forgotten’: How the digital divide is stopping children learning
4 years, 2 months ago

‘I feel forgotten’: How the digital divide is stopping children learning

The Independent  

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Pupils face falling behind because they can’t access online learning, headteachers and councils warn
4 years, 2 months ago

Pupils face falling behind because they can’t access online learning, headteachers and councils warn

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. She added: “I totally support schools closing for all the …

Digital divide deprives have-nots of proper online education
4 years, 2 months ago

Digital divide deprives have-nots of proper online education

The Hindu  

The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered the most ugly and frightening aspects of the digital divide in the domain of education. Even if we try to paint the intra-area and intra-school type heterogeneity with a broad brush, every member of the urban elite family is likely to have a dedicated high-end digital device with high-speed uninterrupted broadband connectivity; the semi-urban may …

Pandemic played havoc on academics this year
4 years, 3 months ago

Pandemic played havoc on academics this year

Hindustan Times  

Months of lockdown and subsequent measures to curtail to spread of Covid-19 restrictions has derailed the academic sessions of schools and colleges this year. Although online classes and television programmes were tailored for students of government schools, many were deprived of learning due to issues ranging from affordability to accessibility. Aditi Mishra, the principal of Delhi Public School, Sector 45, …

How Covid-19 paved the path for EduTech evolution in 2021
4 years, 3 months ago

How Covid-19 paved the path for EduTech evolution in 2021

India Today  

We have been, for a long time, working on the traditional school system. Live Learning: Live learning technology provides an interactive platform for the teachers and the students to understand and focus on the learning experience. With real-time doubt-solving and feedback, live learning has not only created a real classroom-like learning environment but it also empowers teachers to control and …

5 problems you can face in online learning and how to deal with them
4 years, 4 months ago

5 problems you can face in online learning and how to deal with them

India Today  

The Covid-19 pandemic and the prolonged lockdown induced by it has made working as well as studying from home the new normal. All stakeholders, including students, teachers and institutions are forced to overcome challenges that have come with this sudden and often hastily executed online learning programmes. In online learning, assessing students through a Multiple-Choice Question mechanism is still feasible …

How you can maintain the momentum in EdTech after the Pandemic
4 years, 5 months ago

How you can maintain the momentum in EdTech after the Pandemic

India Today  

We know that only a small fraction of all the people who make new year’s resolutions keep them beyond March. Digital tools like Learning Management System along with the right pedagogical practices could have a significant positive impact on learning. A Post-Covid Ed-Tech Playbook To summarize, technology in education provides flexibility, increases access for teachers and students, and improves learning …

How Covid-19 pandemic has created spike in demand and popularity of e-learning
4 years, 5 months ago

How Covid-19 pandemic has created spike in demand and popularity of e-learning

India Today  

E-learning is revolutionising our education system as it remains the only option during the ongoing crisis. Many schools are leveraging the crisis as an opportunity to deploy digital technology and make education delivery meaningful, to be more productive and efficient while developing new skills through online learning and assessment. Concrete learning When students and teachers are unable to access physical …

Devi Kar | Surprising outcomes as schooling goes ‘virtual’ in COVID times
4 years, 5 months ago

Devi Kar | Surprising outcomes as schooling goes ‘virtual’ in COVID times

Deccan Chronicle  

Right through the Covid-19 pandemic, we have been hearing people cribbing and moaning about the deteriorating education scene after the schools were forced to shut down in March. First, teachers as well as students have successfully demonstrated that with the help of technology, it is possible to make learning effective as well as fun. I have seen phenomenal learning displayed …

How the pandemic has changed some elements of teaching-learning permanently
4 years, 6 months ago

How the pandemic has changed some elements of teaching-learning permanently

The Hindu  

Schools and colleges were shut down in the second week of March as a preventive measure to contain the spread of COVID-19. Some immediate measures included shifting teaching process online on an untested and unprecedented scale, conducting online assessments on trial-and-error basis, creating content suitable for remote learning using technology and tools among others. These include limited access to the …

Covid-19 impact: Is it enough to simply introduce technology and infuse it into a current educational framework?
4 years, 6 months ago

Covid-19 impact: Is it enough to simply introduce technology and infuse it into a current educational framework?

India Today  

The Covid-19 pandemic has reawakened the debate about the correct balance between teacher-student engagement and technology. In May 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi acknowledged that 'India must become a global knowledge superpower and that special emphasis must be given to the use of technology in the education sector by enhancing learning mechanisms with the use of technology, such as online …

Covid-19 pandemic: Can extracurriculars activities and skills really be taught online?
4 years, 6 months ago

Covid-19 pandemic: Can extracurriculars activities and skills really be taught online?

India Today  

Not so long ago, career fields were pre-decided by parents and teachers; either you can be an engineer, a doctor, a chartered accountant, or an MBA, this more or less sums it up. What we are seeing in 2020 is that the adaption towards digital academic and skills learning has grown immensely across the country and globally. While learning math …

Debunking five common myths about online-learning
4 years, 6 months ago

Debunking five common myths about online-learning

India Today  

Amid Covid-19 pandemic, online learning is taking over the world because of its availability, accessibility, convenience, and flexibility. Online learning is shrouded in myths that make it difficult for learners to accept it as a better alternative to traditional classroom education. Online-Learning is complicated and incomplete Students stay away from online courses because they believe that the instructor is never …

Class of 2020: Meet the educationists making e-learning accessible
4 years, 6 months ago

Class of 2020: Meet the educationists making e-learning accessible

Live Mint  

When India announced a nationwide lockdown on 24 March in a bid to check the spread of the covid-19 pandemic, most schools and colleges were forced to terminate classes in the final months of the academic year. “The offline system is straightforward,” says Mubeen Masudi, founder of RiSE, a Srinagar-based coaching institute for Indian Institutes of Technology entrance and class …

Online learning: 5 tools to hold virtual classes during the Covid-19 pandemic
4 years, 7 months ago

Online learning: 5 tools to hold virtual classes during the Covid-19 pandemic

India Today  

The Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has put the world in lockdown. The silver lining to this cloud is that teachers can use the craze for technology in students to engage them and create learning opportunities even outside the conventional classroom setup. No wonder schools in different parts of the world are shifting to online learning with many teachers recording video classes …

An educator’s tips for online learning
4 years, 7 months ago

An educator’s tips for online learning

LA Times  

Devora Noboa is a parent-educator for Ready, Set, Read! The best way for children to use virtual tools such as Zoom is for parents to get comfortable with the online programs. Once parents are comfortable with the online programs, they can reach out to other parents to set up “virtual play dates.” I have found it’s helpful to coordinate that …

Blended Education Models With Offline Methods Help Bridge Learning Gaps for 85% Students: Experts
4 years, 7 months ago

Blended Education Models With Offline Methods Help Bridge Learning Gaps for 85% Students: Experts

News 18  

With school closures and classes continuing, hybrid or blended models of learning stressing on offline components are being practised in remote parts of the country. So when they segregate data for rural locations and also consider the availability of devices, “only 8 -10 per cent children would have any kind of access to devices for their learning,” said Aekta Nandwana …

Covid-19 exposes class divide in education: How can students learn without digital access?
4 years, 7 months ago

Covid-19 exposes class divide in education: How can students learn without digital access?

India Today  

The coronavirus pandemic has created a crisis of epic proportions across industries, sectors and the society at large. Students can also download the Google Docs Offline extension for Chrome Browser, which will enable them to use Google Docs, Sheets, Drive and Slides without internet access. Distributing hard copies of learning materials In addition to leveraging tech-based tools, educational institutes should …

Online education not substitute for school education, to keep the learning process moving: Sisodia
4 years, 7 months ago

Online education not substitute for school education, to keep the learning process moving: Sisodia

India TV News  

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. Sisodia, who is also Delhi's Education Minister, interacted with teachers and parents at a government school in Chirag Enclave to review the online and semi-online education system enforced in view of closure of …

5 ways to make online education more relevant in higher education amid Covid-19 pandemic
4 years, 7 months ago

5 ways to make online education more relevant in higher education amid Covid-19 pandemic

India Today  

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought an unprecedented crisis to the education landscape of the world. Most of the Brick and Mortar Higher Education Institutions digitally transformed themselves to provide learning experience to campus students via online teaching. Unlike conventional classroom, online classroom requires teachers to adopt certain instructional strategies such as pre and post class activities using Learning Management System …

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