Mental health concerns of online education among children
Online education to the school children is a new phenomenon which was started during the COVID period. Since the Novel Corona Virus was highly contagious and would spread fast in…
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Are digital education programs in India accessible for persons with disabilities?
Are digital education programs in India accessible for persons with disabilities? How do students with disabilities access online classes? Is there currently any guideline or policy of the government which…
When Virtual Reality is the Actual Reality
Some time ago, I met the daughter of a friend who has by now finished 2 years of college life without setting foot in the college campus. All this time…
Online Education in India : A Subterfuge of Socratic Knowledge
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge” (Nicolaus Copernicus). Socratic knowledge in…
Covid-induced online education hurts poor families
Written by B.Sivaraman & Kumudini Pati Online classes have become the main mode of learning for millions of school students across India due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with its repeated…
My Covid-19 Teaching Year
It seems appropriate that the 2020-2021 school year in Portland, Oregon, began amid toxic smoke from the catastrophic wildfires that blanketed many parts of the state for almost two weeks. The night…
Role of Psychological Capital in Fostering Well-Being among Students in the Age of COVID-19
Health is a precious asset. The World Health Organization identifies health as a state of total physical, mental, and social well-being, rather than simply the absence of disease. It also…
Transformation of Higher Education post COVID-19 in India
Written by Dr. Sudhamshi Beeram, Dr. Arathi P Rao and Prof. K Rajasekharan Nayar The disruption caused by COVID-19 pandemic has been drastic and perhaps one of the most dramatic…
Coronavirus Education: Learning and Teaching from the Margins
The coronavirus student, a species brought forth in the world of education by a pandemic that has killed over 400,000 people in the United States and 100,000 in the United…
Paradigm shift in pedagogy for school teachers in 2020: A call for mental health literacy?
Co-Written by Dr. Arathi P Rao, Dr. Sudhamshi Beeram, Dr. Parul Malik and Dr. Urvashi Priyadarshini The fight against the threats of COVID -19 pandemic has profoundly impacted almost all sectors…
Learning In Times Of COVID-19: Busting myths about the success of e-schooling
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” – Charles Dederich The above quote, used to describe a child’s first day at school, has been prolifically used…
Can the Social Sciences choose to be Reflexive in times of Crisis?
by Chandreyee Goswami & Dhriti Sonowal As students of social sciences, we often harbour a sense of enlightenment in knowing that the subject matter we engage with has been historically instituted…
The Disappearing collegiality in Pedagogy: The COVIDian times
The online teaching due to the lockdown is a new experience for many students in the country. It has gone through many glitches due to lack of facilities, lack of…
Teaching Crisis and Teachers’ Role in Times of Covid-19 Pandemic
The global Covid-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented change in all walks of life. It has clutched different sectors and overthrown people around the world to a new social and…
Online Classes Are Also Detrimental to Teachers and Neoliberalism Is to Be Blamed
I completed my primary education from a school that no more exists: Heroes Memorial Inter College. Situated in the capital of India’s most populous state, it was made in the…
Teachers in the e-box
It was only a matter of time that the fire started by Covid-19 would consume all traditional aspects of higher education teaching-learning and reach the doorstep of faculty training forcing…
Examination, Education And Selective Amnesia
It has been few weeks now that we have been watching the University Grants commision (UGC) and the Students' differences unfold over the question of conducting examination in times of…
Online Education: New Tool For Division
In this time of the COVID pandemic, it is often heard that Coronavirus doesn`t differentiate between rich and poor. Though the virus infects both rich and poor equally, the steps…
Covid 19 exposes the way we treat our teachers
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition”, said Jacques Barzun. Rightly, did he point this out that ‘teaching’ is no more respected…
It Isn’t Just About Online Learning: Broadening the Post-Coronavirus Discussion on Teaching in Higher Education
We live in a time where various technologies are advancing at an exponential rate. This accelerated progress is influencing all aspects of our lives, and inevitably, has a profound impact…
Online Education: A Student’s Perspective
I have been attending online classes for three months but the experience continues to be the same - surreal and absurd. In these times, when the world is going through…
Online Exams and the Presumption of Privilege in a Pandemic
Delhi University seems to have been changing its stance every day in the High Court as petitions challenging the Online Open Book Exams are being heard. Meanwhile, even University Grants…
Online Education cannot be a substitute for the ‘Inclusive Classroom’ Education in post Covid-19 World
After the announcement of strict lockdown by PM Modi from 24th March 2020, Public Universities, Colleges, and Schools had been completely closed down and supposed to follow the guidelines…
Student Assessment In COVID-19 Times In Kashmir
Well, in education, peace is a state where teacher, teaching, taught, structure and infrastructure becomes one. The ultimate goal of teaching is to promote learning that is why education…
Taiwan’s Lesson: 9 ways to prevent COVID-19 in campuses
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the functioning of colleges and schools all over the world since March. However, these educational institutions are expected to be re-opened after August 2020.…
Virtual Teaching: A New Normal
With the outbreak of COVID-19, educational institutions had to change their mode of teaching. Though virtual teaching is not something new, but doing it on a daily basis has made…
Impact of pandemic crisis on the children from socially-disadvantaged background
The first case of Covid- 19 was reported in India on 30th January 2020. On 24th March 2020 Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared nationwide lockdown as a measure to contain…
Understanding Education in the age of Digital Divide
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Mandela. Derived from a Latin word “ Educatum” it means the act of teaching…
Digital Divide: Obvious and Clear Between Haves and Havenots
Co-Written by Abass Rather & Aqib Yousuf Government's announcement to switch over from physical class room to virtual class room during the Covid 19 Pandemic lockdown period seems to be…
Online examinations: towards educational genocide of students of School of Open Learning
It is circa 2020 and we are in the middle of a declared pandemic and a nation-wide lockdown. In the current extraordinary circumstances, university students have been simply asked to…
Education in the time of Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic is seen as a ‘useful crisis’ in which to transform the economy. Yet the university system has not received any such ‘stimulus’ of fresh ways of thinking…
Learning During The Pandemic
India has started Lockdown 4.0 with dismal numbers. We are already over 1 lakh cases, and as much as NITI Aayog would predict otherwise, the slump in cases is yet…
No Tea, Only Talk: The ‘Missing’ Interactions in the Digital Space
The unprecedented situation that the global community faces in the wake of Corona induced pandemic and the fear, panic, isolation and uncertainty that it has brought with it, has left…
Online Teaching in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Some Concerns
The Corona virus outbreak has presented unprecedented challenges to different areas of public life, especially the education system. Due to the pervasiveness of a novel virus, the closure of educational…
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