Online education in Covid-19: Limitations and improvements

ABSTRACT

The world and its ways of living have seen a massive change post the Covid lockdown in multiple aspects as, new practices, new trends and a new lifestyle of maintaining social distancing has wholly altered the world's standard. This change has severely affected the ways of learning, teaching and schooling as in-person classes have shifted to online live courses. But the available platforms of online classes don't provide a classroom-like feel, thereby creating hindrance in students learning process and diminishing the quality of education. This study provides a novel paradigm with complete architecture and implementation of a platform that caters explicitly to online learning and lives classes with provisions to provide class like atmosphere. It aims to do so with graded feature break down aided by a detailed description and plans to set up, build maintain such a paradigm from both technical administration fronts. In addition to the above, it further provides a framework that helps colleges education institutes to conduct "in-person classes"after pandemic enervates while following norms of social distancing. © 2021 IEEE.