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Sunday, June 14, 2020

CHALLENGES FACE BY THE STUDENTS DURING THE PANDEMIC SITUATION OF COVID-19

CHALLENGES FACE BY THE STUDENTS WHILE RECEIVING THE CONTENT THROUGH E-MODE DURING THE PANDEMIC SITUATION OF COVID-19

Within a very few months the total situation of the world has transformed due to this COVID19. As we know that due this pandemic situation of COVID-19, thousands of people have already died, and hundreds of thousands more have fallen ill, from a corona virus that was previously unknown before appearing in the city of Wuhan in December 2019. For millions of others who have not caught the disease, their entire way of life has changed by it unexpectedly.

This is a crucial time for the education sector—board examinations, nursery school admissions, entrance tests of various universities and competitive examinations, among others, are all held during this period. As the days pass by with no immediate solution to stop the outbreak of Covid-19, school and university closures will not only have a short-term impact on the continuity of learning for more than 285 million young learners in India but also engender far-reaching economic and societal consequences.

Our education system is going on a very difficult way due to this pandemic of COVID-19. And due to this both the teachers and students have suffered. Therefore the governments of India give importance on online education. When we speak about online education, it means that the total teaching learning process is depends on internet. In online learning teacher is the key source, because they convey the teaching learning materials to the learner. So, the responsibilities of the teacher towards his/her students are more and more.

The term “online platform” has been used to describe a range of services available on the Internet including marketplaces, search engines, social media, creative content outlets, app stores, communications services, payment systems, services comprising the so-called “collaborative” or “gig” economy, and much more.

A Learning Platform is an integrated set of interactive online services that provides the teachers, learners, parents and others involved in education with information, tools and resources to support and enhance educational delivery and management.

Teachers are doing online classes with the help of following online platforms-

● Whatsapp groups

● Face book

● YouTube

● Mail

● Zoom meeting

● Video conferencing

● Phone

Online education is not so easy as speaking into the microphone at one end, and connecting a laptop and listening in on the other; there are challenges faced at both ends of the spectrum Covid-19 has forced universities across India, and the world indeed, to suspend physical classrooms and shift to online classes.

As we know that classroom is diversified in nature. In a same classroom students are come from different locality (rural, urban). So, the students who are from remote areas face lots of problems with e- mode teaching-learning process. From my own experiences and by interacting with some of my friends I came to know the challenges face by the students while receiving the content through e-mode during the pandemic situation of covid-19.

Connectivity problems- In the rural area it’s a big problem. When there is a problem with the internet system, one cannot think of online learning, simply it is impossible. There is nothing you can do. Slow connections are even worse.

Lack of electricity facilities- There are some students who are from remote areas for those students who are from remote areas they find it very difficult to do online class because of electricity problems.

Lack of knowledge of the students towards technology. Many teachers are technologically slow and not aware of many technologies. Lack of technical knowledge is becoming a barrier in making a digital educational content.

Lack of android phones, laptop- All individual is not financially strong enough to buy laptop and android mobile phone. The phones which they have are having very poor quality because of which they are unable to do the online classes.

Lack of willing of the learner to learn- From the interaction with the students I came to know that most of the students are not interested in online classes. Most of the books are provided by the library to collect the materials is a big problem for teachers and students.

Lack of infrastructure- Lack of TLM, Arrangement of proper teaching environment is another problem of e- mode teaching – learning process. Actual teaching – learning process needs proper classroom environment. The success of teaching- learning process to a great extend depends upon the proper setting or environment of the classroom.

Misunderstanding of the concepts- sometimes due to poor connection of the internet teacher want to convey the meaning in one way but students receive it in another ways. So, it leads to the misunderstanding of the concept.

Lack of psychological principles-Teaching learning process is based upon the psychological principles. But what happened in online mode of learning it is totally ignored. In order to get success in teaching learning process

Individual differences is totally ignored- As we know that no two individual are alike. Each and every individual has different needs, interests, abilities, attitudes and aptitudes. So, learning style of every learner is also different.

Responses from the students are low- In online mode the responses of the learners are very low as there is absence of face to face learning.

The age of the teacher is also a factor. From the study it was also found that the old generation teachers are finding it difficult to adjust in the new situation suddenly. But they are trying to become professionally competent teacher by taking the help from their colleagues.

E-mode teaching- learning process has lots of advantages but cannot deny the disadvantages of online learning. Sudden shift of teaching learning process to online is actually not a good process because there are some students who does not have smart phone with proper online facilities and remote areas don’t have internet facility. Though it is a good initiative but everyone couldn’t grab that facility properly.

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