Online education in time of corona  

Unforeseen disasters can sometimes unleash the unimaginable situations.

Today businesses, economies, nations and human lives are reeling under coronavirus’ impact.

Globally, the education of 300 million students has been disrupted.

shutdowns of educational institutions and schools has largely disturbed the education system

Most of the schools and colleges are carrying out online classes in the time of lockdown

Online education businesses are registering a spike worldwide, It’s new-age-education in the time of Corona!

Nearly 600,000 students travel overseas for their higher education every year.

With COVID 19 the prospect of that happening anytime soon, is bleak.

Online education be their savior at this critical time, but there’s a flip side to this dismal development

There are some key challenges in the online education segment that need to be resolved

Most of the rural Indian households have no access to the internet and live streaming facilities

Lakhs of students across the country are totally off education suddenly due to the coronavirus lockdown

  The traditional education system already faces a lack of faculty and online learning adaptation is not easy

India has about 3.5 million students in higher education and around 900 universities

Basic and secondary education also comprises huge number of students

There has been no preparedness for online system of education leading to a lot of communication gap and confusion

State and central governments have no online education policy for schools and colleges

Academic experts, industry, students and faculty all need to be trained before adapting to the new way of online education

The other factors include adapting courses to online mode with necessary tweaks and improvisation

The biggest challenge of online education looms large on the villages and small towns with no internet and device access

In larger part of the country the online education revolution still remains a dream.