Perception Towards Blended Learning at the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic

Blended learning mixes offline learning activities and resources with online learning activities and resources. The goal of blended learning is to minimise the time spent sitting in class, which is a significant advantage for a College / university. It might aid university officials with enhancing programmes that have low enrollment, reducing expenditures, and fulfilling staff teaching responsibilities. The study is focusing on the perception of the college students towards the online learning program during the pandemic. The blended learning is the unavoidable and safety method of teaching learning process during the pandemic. It is a qualitative study made in Chennai city. The students of higher educational institutions (Arts & Science and Engineering colleges) are considered as samples. 250 sample respondents are selected from the study are using simple random technique. The Google forms was circulated and collected the primary data. Assessment is a very important instrument for measuring the degree of knowledge that a student has in relation to the topic in which they are enrolled in any level of education. Teachers are able to give the lecture and measure student learning via the use of unique and inventive approaches when they use blended learning strategies.Copyright © 2022 Ubiquity Press. All rights reserved.

Reigniting the power of artificial intelligence in education sector for the educators and students competence

Authors, writers, and futurists have all spent decades in speculating about the wonderful developments that would come up with the widespread use of artificial intelligence. So far, artificial intelligence has not caused any major stirs, and it has quietly grown pervasive in a wide range of areas of our everyday lives. Automatic driving, parking features, smart sensors, and personal assistants in smartphones are a few examples of how artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us all the time. In all industries, including education, artificial intelligence is going to be a vital source of progress and innovation. In the next few years, AI will be enabled in all learning management tools. While some AI-powered solutions were there in EdTech area, most of them did not adopt them. But this COVID-19 drastically changed the mindset of teachers, students, and parents to depend on virtual learning. Now, most of the educators are in favor of technology and would like to amend technology as a part of the education system. Artificial intelligence has the ability to improve both student and teacher outcomes through enhanced learning and teaching. AI has the potential to solve some of the most important problems in education today, change the way people teach and learn, and, in the end, speed up progress toward the sustainable development goals. However, these fast technical advances often carry with them a slew of hazards and difficulties that have far surpassed policy discussions and regulatory structures. The present study identifies the potential of AI technologies for accomplishing the education vision while ensuring that the use of AI in educational contexts is governed by the key values of inclusion and equity. © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Perception Towards Blended Learning at the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic

Blended learning mixes offline learning activities and resources with online learning activities and resources. The goal of blended learning is to minimise the time spent sitting in class, which is a significant advantage for a College / university. It might aid university officials with enhancing programmes that have low enrollment, reducing expenditures, and fulfilling staff teaching responsibilities. The study is focusing on the perception of the college students towards the online learning program during the pandemic. The blended learning is the unavoidable and safety method of teaching learning process during the pandemic. It is a qualitative study made in Chennai city. The students of higher educational institutions (Arts & Science and Engineering colleges) are considered as samples. 250 sample respondents are selected from the study are using simple random technique. The Google forms was circulated and collected the primary data. Assessment is a very important instrument for measuring the degree of knowledge that a student has in relation to the topic in which they are enrolled in any level of education. Teachers are able to give the lecture and measure student learning via the use of unique and inventive approaches when they use blended learning strategies. Copyright © 2022 Ubiquity Press. All rights reserved.

Predicting air passenger traffic during Covid-19 & its economic impact

Most governments have implemented restrictive policies in response to the global coronavirus outbreak to curb the pandemic and reduce the number of deaths. Air traffic suspension is one of the most important restrictive policies in terms of reducing global migration for short period, though it has major and long term impact on all economies of the world.The objective of this study is to analyse the impact global air travel ban on various aviation sectors. This required authors to collect and pre-process the passengers traffic worldwide via flights. Based on historical data from 1970 till 2019 (Source- data.worldbank.org), a predictive model is prepared and implemented to get a clear picture of the losses faced by the aviation sector in terms of air passenger traffic. Further we will be comparing the forecasted values with the real time values in order to study the effect of air travel ban on aviation and its supported sectors. In addition, a study of the economic impact of the air travel bans and the cumulative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is being conducted by looking at real GDP levels (in percentages) and future estimates, measuring them all in percentages for the world economy and various industrialized countries, developed markets, and developing nations, and a comparison being made and then further analyzing them. In the near term, some countries will be more affected than others, and most airline businesses will lose because of the travel ban. We hope that these early findings will aid in the development of informed policies and exit plans for this global crisis. © 2022 Author(s).

A Secured Real-Time IoMT Application for Monitoring Isolated COVID-19 Patients using Edge Computing

Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is an emerging technology whose capabilities to self-organize itself on-the-fly, to monitor the patient's vital health data without any manual entry and assist early human intervention gave birth to smart healthcare applications. The smart applications can be used to remotely monitor isolated patients during this COVID-19 pandemic. Remote patient monitoring provides an opportunity for COVID-19 patients to have vital signs and other indicators recorded regularly and inexpensively to provide rapid and early warning of conditions that require medical attention using secured edge and cloud computing. However, to gain the confidence of the users over these applications, the performance of healthcare applications should be evaluated in real-time. Our real-time implementation of IoMT based remote monitoring application using edge and cloud computing, along with empirical evaluation, show that COVID-19 patients can be monitored effectively not only with mobility but also helps the health care professionals to generate consolidated health data of the patient that can guide them to obtain medical attention. © 2021 IEEE.