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Managing Online Classes in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Choices and Challenges
Literary Voice ; - (16):16-22, 2022.
Article in English | Web of Science | ID: covidwho-1913136
ABSTRACT
In the pandemic period, there has been a paradigm shift in the teaching-learning strategies, due to the ever-increasing importance and intervention of technology in the curriculum at all the levels. Both the learners and teachers have been forced to adopt the new strategies and adapt to the changing needs in the transaction of curriculum. However, in a country like ours, where nearly 70% of the population live in the rural or semi-urban with limited or no exposure to ICT-enabled teaching-learning infrastructure and majority of the population cannot afford expensive smartphones, planning, conducting, and managing online classes on a large scale is a great challenge. In the COVID-19 scenario, when the physical congregation of the learners and teachers is either prohibited or constrained with SOPs, the online platform has become the most suitable alternative. As many of the teachers and learners are new to this new mode of teaching and learning, they need to be aware of the skills as well etiquette to make the teaching-learning transactions effective and successful. In spite of the tall claims that institutions and governments make, the internet bandwidth available with learners in most of the rural and inaccessible pockets of the country is often inadequate to support live-streaming of the online classes and the storage facility available with the mobiles is not enough to help the learners download the classes and watch them at their convenience. In a situation like this, the challenges encountered by the teachers while conducting and managing the online classes are more than the choices available. The present paper proposes to discuss the choices available to the teachers, the challenges they are likely to encounter and the innovative pedagogies and skills they need to exhibit to make such online classes effective, engaging and successful. The paper is based upon the findings of a survey conducted during the pandemic period on the effectiveness of online classes for teaching and learning.
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Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: Web of Science Topics: Long Covid Language: English Journal: Literary Voice Year: 2022 Document Type: Article

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Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: Web of Science Topics: Long Covid Language: English Journal: Literary Voice Year: 2022 Document Type: Article