Comparative Study on Online Teaching Learning Tools

ABSTRACT

Online teaching learning process or e-learning is widely used teaching methodology during Covid-19 pandemic prevailing globally. This teaching–learning process, contradictory to traditional methodology can be placed under the category of “distance learning”. It has challenges of its own. But this process is advantageous than traditional ones, in terms of convenience for students at remote locations. The other advantages are availability of learning resources any time, facilitation of communication between/among teachers and students, auto-documentation of processes, easy conduction and evaluation of assessments, ability to accommodate any number of students, etc., Learning Management Systems (LMS) are abundant today and teachers are at liberty to choose any one among those systems as many are available at free of cost. In this paper, a comparative study on four such tools, namely, ClassDojo, Edmodo, Google Classroom and Schoology is done to guide teachers opting for online teaching–learning process. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.