scholarly journals Options for teaching-learning and research in higher education: coping strategies for Environmental Science studies during COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-148
Author(s):  
Ramesh Prasad Sapkota ◽  
Kedar Rijal
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Virtual Classrooms ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Future Education

Online teaching-learning and virtual classrooms have been the choice of many academia across the globe, when there are lockdown uncertainties, preventing the students for real classroom learnings, due to pandemic. When academic institutions are attempting to adopt online teaching-learning and research, there is need to search the possibilities of improving such approaches. In this context, this paper attempts to provide approaches on how the online teaching-learning and research activities under Environmental Science subject can be strengthened. The paper has identified that in addition to online platforms and virtual classrooms, careful collection of field data de-facto and send to the class for discussion and analysis can open wide array of possibilities to learn distantly. Government-academia partnership and coordination among academic institutions and other relevant stakeholders during the pandemic break, help in providing two-way benefits, viz. academic requirement fulfillment of the academic institutions and reference documents development for the data providing institutions. However, in attempting remote teaching-learning and research, every activities of students are required to be assessed by developing clear and unambiguous evaluation rubric. Strengthening online teaching-learning and research can be one of the avenues for developing future education strategies in academic institutions of Nepal.

scholarly journals Online Learning: A Panacea in the Time of COVID-19 Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shivangi Dhawan
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
World Health ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Online Mode ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Methods Of Learning ◽  
Teaching Learning

Educational institutions (schools, colleges, and universities) in India are currently based only on traditional methods of learning, that is, they follow the traditional set up of face-to-face lectures in a classroom. Although many academic units have also started blended learning, still a lot of them are stuck with old procedures. The sudden outbreak of a deadly disease called Covid-19 caused by a Corona Virus (SARS-CoV-2) shook the entire world. The World Health Organization declared it as a pandemic. This situation challenged the education system across the world and forced educators to shift to an online mode of teaching overnight. Many academic institutions that were earlier reluctant to change their traditional pedagogical approach had no option but to shift entirely to online teaching–learning. The article includes the importance of online learning and Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, & Challenges (SWOC) analysis of e-learning modes in the time of crisis. This article also put some light on the growth of EdTech Start-ups during the time of pandemic and natural disasters and includes suggestions for academic institutions of how to deal with challenges associated with online learning.

scholarly journals An investigation into the management of online teaching and learning spaces: A case study involving graduate research students

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohan Jowallah
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Web Conferencing ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Research Students ◽  
Teaching Learning

<p>This research evaluates the strategies implemented to support the research activities of postgraduate students pursuing online master’s programs in the University of the West Indies Open Campus, as well as the activities of their supervisors. The three main strategies employed were (1) the use of a web-based ‘teaching-learning space’ to facilitate asynchronous interaction between students and their supervisors; (2) the provision of a scheduling tool to facilitate the planning of one-on-one meetings via a synchronous web-conferencing tool; and (3) the organization of research seminars using the same web-conferencing tool.</p><p>This research used Moore’s theory of transactional distance and social cognitive theoretical framework to guide the project. Moore’s model reemphasizes the need for stronger forms of communicating for online students, whereas the cognitive framework focuses on the need for social interaction among learner and teacher. Participants were graduate students (<em>n</em> = 34). All participants were required to complete a questionnaire online. Data were also collected from postings in discussion forums. Overall, notwithstanding limitations, the data shows there are benefits to be gained from conducting student research activities in an online environment.</p>

scholarly journals Shifting towards online training-Possible challenges from Educators/Trainers perspective in Indian setting

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 620-623
Author(s):  
Snehil Singh ◽  
Sanjay Gupta ◽  
Lokesh Sharma ◽  
Mainak Chatterjee ◽  
Sumeet Juneja ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Indian Setting ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Methods Of Learning ◽  
Teaching Learning

Worldwide metastasis of novel coronavirus COVID-19 has caused immense alterations among every walk of human existence and social interaction(1). Education and training sector being as vulnerable to these adjustments as any other domain(2). Owing to its extremely infectious nature, the COVID-19 pandemic enforced the closure of training institutes globally. All the traditional classroom training were restricted as an instant consequence, to achieve the norms of social distancing which can perhaps aid in obliterating the infection curve and lessen the resultant fatalities(3). Educational institutions in India predominantly bank on traditional methods of training, utilizing conventional setup of in-person training and lectures in a teaching space. While over the years, there is a marked shift towards blended learning, still most of the academic institutes are guided by the existing orthodox learning methodologies. An unexpected outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic caused by Corona Virus (SARS-CoV-2) shuddered the entire world (4). This complete shutdown kind of circumstances has tested the education system globally and coerced the educators to shift to digital platforms and online modules almost instantaneously. Academic institutions were required to shift from their traditional pedagogical approach to online teaching-learning. The article recognises the possible barriers to swiftly shift from traditional methods of learning towards e-learning among adult professionals through analysing the limitations faced by the authors while converting and conducting traditional trainings into e-trainings at The National Cold Chain and Vaccine Management Resource Centre (NCCVMRC-NIHFW), New Delhi. This article also put some light on methodologies that could assist academic institutions in dealing with challenges associated with shifting towards e-learning.

scholarly journals Google Trend Analysis and Paradigm Shift of Online Education Platforms during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 418-428
Author(s):  
Ashwani Kumar Kansal ◽  
Jyoti Gautam ◽  
Nalini Chintalapudi ◽  
Shivani Jain ◽  
Gopi Battineni
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Word Search ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Impact

Objective: The largest pandemic in history, the COVID-19 pandemic, has been declared a doomsday globally. The second wave spreading worldwide has devastating consequences in every sector of life. Several measures to contain and curb its infection have forged significant challenges for the education community. With an estimated 1.6 billion learners, the closure of schools and other educational institutions has impacted more than 90% of students worldwide from the elementary to tertiary level. Methods: In a view to studying impacts on student’s fraternity, this article aims at addressing alternative ways of educating—more specifically, online education—through the analysis of Google trends for the past year. The study analyzed the platforms of online teaching and learning systems that have been enabling remote learning, thereby limiting the impact on the education system. Thorough text analysis is performed on an existing dataset from Kaggle to retrieve insight on the clustering of words that are more often looked at during this pandemic to find the general patterns of their occurrence. Findings: The results show that the coronavirus patients are the most trending patterns in word search clustering, with the education system being at the control and preventive measures to bring equilibrium in the system of education. There has been significant growth in online platforms in the last year. Existing assets of educational establishments have effectively converted conventional education into new-age online education with the help of virtual classes and other key online tools in this continually fluctuating scholastic setting. The effective usage of teaching tools such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, and WebEx are the most used online platforms for the conduction of classes, and whiteboard software tools and learning apps such as Vedantu, Udemy, Byju’s, and Whitehat Junior have been big market players in the education system over the pandemic year, especially in India. Conclusions: The article helps to draw a holistic approach of ongoing online teaching-learning methods during the lockdown and also highlights changes that took place in the conventional education system amid the COVID pandemic to overcome the persisting disruption in academic activities and to ensure correct perception towards the online procedure as a normal course of action in the new educational system. To fill in the void of classroom learning and to minimize the virus spread over the last year, digital learning in various schools and colleges has been emphasized, leading to a significant increase in the usage of whiteboard software platforms.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of Online Learning during COVID-19 Crisis: An Indian Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Rouf Ahmad Bhat ◽  
Sanjay Kumar ◽  
Arshad Ahmad Najar ◽  
Anita Deshpande
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Online Mode ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
Methods Of Learning ◽  
Teaching Learning

In India educational institutions are currently grounded only on traditional methods of learning, they follow the traditional arrangements of face-to-face learning methods in a classroom. Although many educational institutions at different levels (Schools, Colleges, Universities) have also started blended learning, still most of them are stuck with the procedures which are yet to rejuvenate. The sudden burst of CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) shook the entire world and has interrupted all facets of our daily lives. This situation challenged the education system across the world and forced educators to shift to an online mode of teaching overnight. Many academic institutions that were earlier indisposed to change their traditional pedagogical approach had no option but to shift entirely to online teaching-learning. This study elucidates the importance of online learning and elaborates opportunities &amp; challenges of e-learning modes in the time of crisis. This research piece sheds some light on the growth of IT-enabled tools (EdTech) during the time of the pandemic. In concluding interpretations this research article places suggestions for academic institutions on how to deal with challenges associated with online learning.

scholarly journals Classroom to Google Room an Incredible Revolution in Teaching-Learning Pedagogy

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 720-725
Author(s):  
S. Basheer Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
The World ◽  
Learning Platforms ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Keywords Education ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition And Sharing

Abstract: Education 4.0 made the world of knowledge acquisition and sharing to take a diverse spin, teaching-learning fully loaded with technology. The extensive use of Smartphone and internet paved a way to include technology into teaching-learning. Inclusion of technology or internet has become obligatory and fetched ease in academic as well as non-academic learning tendencies of inclination of understanding. The instructors have the challenges to guide or edify their learners other than faceto-face means of instructions. The teachers have to be proficient in handling technology or smart tools of teaching-learning besides having command over their area of teaching. This paper focuses on the remote online teaching-learning platforms or tools that help the teachers to teach or guide their learners online and the attitudes of the teachers and the students towards the use of the remote online platforms in ELT. Keywords: Education 4.0 – ICA of teaching-learning – remote online platforms – Google Classroom

scholarly journals Going virtual, staying face-to-face: trajectory of ELT classes during the pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Nkemleke
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Virtual Classrooms ◽  
Online Teaching And Learning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

COVID-19 caught everyone by surprise, and even the most advanced higher education institutions around the world probably had challenges moving from Face-to-Face (F2F) to online teaching and learning. For Cameroon, where internet connectivity is still very low, both teachers and students have had a hard time switching to virtual classrooms. This chapter discusses the challenges they have faced in navigating this trajectory in the department of English at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) of the University of Yaoundé 1 (UYI) during the period of lockdown. Based on the experience of 14 teachers who grappled with 14 online courses and F2F mode, the study concludes that due to students’ inability to access the internet with ease, any online teaching/learning at ENS has to be largely complemented with F2F activities.

scholarly journals Research challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experience of a functional genomics laboratory

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthikala Manoj-Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Functional Genomics ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Genomics Research ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Difficult Times

<p>Measures to mitigate and prevent COVID-19 infections included closing universities around the world for an indefinite time and transferring their educational activities to online platforms. Universities were not prepared for such a transition and the online teaching-learning process evolved gradually. Fortunately, there have been many advances in educational technology in recent decades which proved useful during this pandemic. I am proud that the National School of Higher Studies (Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, ENES), Unidad León, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), was one of the institutions that was able to make this digital transition. Basic research has faced its own challenges during the current pandemic. My laboratory does functional genomics research in plants with undergraduate and master’s students. The experiments of the students were at different stages when the pandemic began and could not stop going to the laboratory due to the need to care for experimental plants and cell cultures. Different strategies were developed to maintain research activities, such as: 1) Scheduling research shifts to promote social distancing, 2) Postponing non-essential experiments, 3) Rationing research supplies that were in short supply during the pandemic. Personally, I consider that the use of digital platforms has also generated unexpected opportunities such as new types of scientific collaboration. I had enough free time to edit student theses, write and publish research articles. Interestingly, the students in my work team have participated in virtual international scientific conferences, the only format that evolved during this pandemic. Digital platforms allowed tutors to be in constant contact with students to advise and support them emotionally. The students in my laboratory have been through difficult times. I asked them to tell their story in their own words (These can be read in the student’s section. Editor’s Note).</p>

scholarly journals Perception of E-Learning among Physiotherapy Students

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
Keerthika Ranji ◽  
Shweta S.D Phadke ◽  
Pranati Tilak
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Virtual Classrooms ◽  
Learning Patterns ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Traditional Classroom Teaching ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Physiotherapy Students

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a sudden drastic change in the teaching learning patterns globally. Educational institutes have shifted from the traditional classroom teaching to virtual classrooms. This transition is the need of the hour. It requires technical up gradation as well as better communication skills because the teacher and student are only interacting through a virtual platform. There are many difficulties that both teacher and students face during online teaching learning process. In this study we have tried to understand the perception of physiotherapy students towards E Learning. From the data received and analysed it was concluded that the physiotherapy students prefer traditional classroom teaching as it helps develop better hands on skills. Keywords: E-Learning, Physiotherapy Students, COVID-19 pandemic.

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