The deadly Corona Virus also known as Covid-19 has deeply affected the global system in all respects. This outbreak does also affect the education sector globally. The Covid-19 pandemic forced many schools and colleges to remain closed for a long period. Several areas are affected worldwide and there is a fear of losing this whole ongoing semester or even more in the coming future. Various schools, colleges, and universities have discontinued traditional or face-to-face teaching. It is likely to be online since uncertainty to get back to normalcy remains. As social distancing is preeminent at this stage, this will surely cause negative effects on learning opportunities. Educational units are struggling to find options to deal with this challenging situation. It becomes evident that planning is an urgent need for both offline and online machine-learning system. This is a situation that demands humanity and unity. There is an urgent need to protect and save our students, faculty, academic staff, communities, societies, and the nation as a whole.

Mostly, the world is on quarantine due to Covid-19 outbreak. Therefore schools, colleges, and universities have embraced abandonment. In such a crisis, this online teaching and online learning can be regarded as the positive remedy for the crisis. This online pedagogy makes the institutions adopt modern technology. This pandemic offers, on the other hand, a lucrative side of online teaching and learning. With the help of online teaching modes, we can congregate a large number of students at any time and in any part of the world. All institutions now fall into internalizing different methods of online pedagogical approaches. Many universities around the world have fully digitalized their operations understanding the need of the hour. Online learning is emerging as a modus operandi amidst this chaos. Therefore, the quality enhancement of online teaching–learning is a much sought after idea at this stage.

But anything new comes with problems, and so does online system of teachings-learning. These difficulties and problems associated with modern technology range from facing technical glitches to welcoming monotony and reluctance. Sometimes student finds online teaching to be boring and unengaging. Availability of online learning has to some extent devalued the depth of studies. Online learning has so much of time and flexibility that students never find time to do it. One on one becomes a distant communication system in online method unless both the parties involve in communication process sincerely. Personal attention is also a huge issue facing online learning. Students want two-way interaction which sometimes gets difficult to implement. The learning process cannot reach its full potential until students practice what they learn. Sometimes, online content is all theoretical and does not let students practice and learn effectively. Mediocre course content is also a major issue. Way of demonstrating materials (concept of 'sharing' in the digital world) might mar the interest of the students. Students are found to be not sufficiently prepared for classes.

 

To conclude, it is online education that caters to immediacy in such times of crisis. Problems can be resolved so that the system can run smoothly. Technical difficulties can be solved by having lectures and presentation in prerecorded mode. Online courses should be made dynamic, interesting, and interactive.  Efforts should be made to humanize the learning process to the best extent possible. Personal attention should be provided to students so that they can easily adapt to this learning environment. Social media and various group forums can be used to communicate with students. Communication is the key to seek the attention of the students, and online method offers this scope like the offline one. The quality of the courses should be improved continuously and teachers must try to give their best. Online programs should be designed in such a way that they are creative, interactive and student friendly so that they do not lose any interest in learning. Educators must spend a lot of time in making effective strategies for giving online instructions. Effective online instructions need feedback from learners, thereby making them an important section in this virtual mode of communication process.  

This new scope of unearthing technology and using it to redefine education will surely help us to reformulate a different concept of literacy in the near future.

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