Spring semester 2020 began with my five courses offered in the usual classroom setting and ended with all of them converted to an online format. My community college, along with virtually all of higher education, went into complete lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Massive open online classes, or MOOCs, have seen a surge in enrollments since March. Enrollment at Coursera – an online platform that offers MOOCs, has skyrocketed and was 640% higher from mid-March to mid-April than during the same period last year, growing from 1.6 to 10.3 […]
At any given time, nearly 20 percent of all undergraduate students are enrolled in at least one online course — and this trend continues to spike upward every year. Indeed, online education has become an easy and accessible option for both college-age students and working […]
Pathbreaking technological innovations like online classes, learning management systems, etc., are now becoming a part and parcel of our education system. Thus, what was considered until recently as the future of education is now becoming the norm. The education system is no longer synonymous with […]
The concept of traditional education has changed radically within the last couple of years. Being physically present in a classroom isn’t the only learning option anymore — not with the rise of the internet and new technologies, at least. Nowadays, you have access to a […]
New Tools of Learning or Challenges to Face – Many private and government schools have started online education due to the school being closed during the lockdown. In addition to completing the children’s course, the douts are also being cleared online. Before these situations arrived […]
Reskilling is vital in the post-Covid-19 world because of the large number of jobs being created that need a host of new skills. Here are 5 types of online courses you should check out along with examples from top institutes. With the digital spree that […]
This COVID 19 pandemic impacted education of 1.26 billion children worldwide as estimated by the UNESCO, with over 300 million children just from India. The sudden realisation of the need to be able to function remotely and to keep businesses, services, and systems running at […]
As the year 2020 comes to an end, the country has seen an unprecedented change to the dynamic and culture of education due to the Covid-19 pandemic, causing schools and varsities to halt operation at certain period. The situation has ‘forced’ millions of students across […]
The speedy nationwide lockdown has changed our lives overnight. Learning has not ceased though physical learning centres have. Though the distance learning was introduced in 1962 in Delhi, its prominent usage was adopted due to lockdown. Online education is booming in current times, aided with […]