Open AccessCOVID-19 Pandemic: Impact and Strategies for E-Learning Educational System in India
Author(s) -
Nilutpal Saikia
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of advanced research in science, communication and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2581-9429
DOI - 10.48175/ijarsct-1077
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , e learning , online learning , face (sociological concept) , distance education , virtual learning environment , electronic learning , medical education , public relations , political science , educational technology , psychology , mathematics education , computer science , sociology , pedagogy , world wide web , medicine , social science , disease , pathology , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak
Nowadays the traditional system of education rapidly changes into digitalized education. Due to lockdown all institutions, schools, colleges, universities are closed. There is no existence of face to face contact with teachers and students in this COVID-19 pandemic situation. In this case, e-learning played a major role in providing education. Focusing on this issue the present paper is based on two objectives: to know the role of e-learning during this pandemic situation and second objective is to find out the challenges of e learning. Findings: at present educational institutions shifted their based to virtual platforms to conduct online classes, webinars, web-conferences, online workshops and online training programmes during this pandemic situation. The students faced different problems lack of awareness, less knowledge of using e-learning tools, unable to buy smartphones or laptops those who belong to lower economic backgrounds. The paper is fully depend on secondary sources like books, journals, articles and web portal, etc.