Development of Education during Covid-19 pandemic

1. INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION LEADERS SUMMIT
Education Development in India
and
Impact of COVID-19
By
DR.BISWAJIT MOHAPATRA
M.Sc, M.Ed , M.Phil, P.hD, OES.
DEPT.OF BOTANY
N.C.AUTONOMOUS COLLEGE
JAJPUR,ODISHA

2. • COVID – 19
• RIBOVIRA
• ANTIGEN TEST
• RT-PCR TEST

3. • 30th January 2020  First Affected case
• 11th March 2020  WHO
• 12th March 2020  First Death reported
• 22nd March 2020 – Janata Curfew
• 25th March 2020 1st Phase of Lockdown
• Lockdown 1.0 to 5.0

4. • India has the world’s second largest
school system, after China.
• According to UNESCO, 63 million teachers
were affected in 165 countries. A total of 1.3
billion learners around the world were not
able to attend schools or universities, and
approximately 320 million learners are
affected in India alone.
• Indian education system is still not mature at both the
urban and rural area. Mid- day meal is the program
organized to attract the students to get education. Under
these circumstances government imposed nation wise
lockdown on March 25th, 2020 to combat COVID-19, has
made severe impact on the education system.

5. OBJECTIVES
• How the Indian education system is facing the Impact
of COVID-19, and highlighting the role played by
teachers and students through online education?
• How the positive impact helpful to student, parents
and school teachers in the scenario of the online
education?
• How to reduce the negative impact of COVID-19 on
students for their smooth education?
• Highlight the impact of Covid-19 on Higher Education
sector?
• Enlighten various emerging approaches of India for
higher education.
• Enlist post Covid-19 trends of HEIs.

6. DIGITAL INFRACTURE IN INDIA
• According to the key indicators of Household Social Consumption on Education in India report, based on the 2018 .
• Fewer than 15% of rural Indian households have internet access (as opposed to
42% urban Indian households).
Sl.no State RURAL URBAN
Operate
Computer (%)
Access
Internet (%)
Operate
Computer (%)
Access Internet
(%)
1
Andhra Pradesh 1.5 10.4 11.6 29.5
2
Assam 3.7 12.1 30.8 46.9
3
Bihar 2.7 12.5 20.0 38.6
4
Chhattisgarh 3.2 10.6 22.0 34.6
5
Delhi NA NA 34.7 55.8
6
Gujarat 4.4 21.1 20.1 49.1
7
Haryana 5.9 37.1 29.5 55.5
8
Himachal Pradesh 10.5 48.6 28.3 70.6
9
Jammu & Kashmir 3.5 28.7 16.0 57.7
10
Jharkhand 1.3 11.9 15.6 40.2
11
Karnataka 2.0 8.3 22.9 33.5

7. DIGITAL INFRACTURE IN INDIA
Sl.no State RURAL URBAN
Operate
Computer (%)
Access Internet
(%)
Operate
Computer (%)
Access Internet
(%)
12
Kerala 20.1 46.9 27.5 56.4
13
Madhya Pradesh 2.3 9.7 17.2 35.4
14
Maharashtra 3.3 18.5 27.4 52.0
15
Odisha 1.8 5.8 17.2 31.2
16
Punjab 9.4 39.4 26.7 57.1
17
Rajasthan 6.4 18.5 26.6 49.9
18
Tamilnadu 11.6 14.4 24.7 24.8
19
Telangana 1.6 9.9 17.6 41.9
20
Uttarakhand 7.0 35.2 32.5 64.3
21
Uttar Pradesh 4.0 11.6 22.3 41.0
22
West Bengal 3.3 7.9 23.0 36.0

8. • Lack of availability of electricity
• In a recent survey, the Ministry of Rural
Development found that only 47% of Indian
households receive more than 12 hours of
electricity and more than 36% of schools in
India operate without electricity.
• Non-availability of technical infrastructure and
irregular interrupted internet connectivity all
across India is the biggest challenge in front of
the students and teachers.

9. IMPACT ON TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
• At home
- a lack of basic facilities
- external distraction and
- family interruption
• Educational institution support barriers such as the
budget for purchasing advanced technologies
- a lack of training
- a lack of technical support and
- a lack of clarity
• Teachers’ personal problems includes
- a lack of technical knowledge
- course integration with technology are damper
their engagement in online teaching.

10. Negative impact on Education System
• Educational activity hampered
• Unpreparedness of teachers and students
• Parents’ role
• Digital gadgets
• Create Difference

11. Positive impact on Education System
• Develop the use of soft copy of learning
material.
• Improvement in collaborative work.
• Rise in online meetings
• Enhanced digital literacy
• Improved the use of electronic media for
sharing information
• Worldwide exposure
• Better time management
• Demand for Open and Distance Learning

12. Impact on Higher Education
• Destabilized all educational activities.
• Mixed impact on Academic research &
Professional Development.
• Severely affected the educational assessment
system
• Reduced employment opportunities.

13. Emerging approaches of India for Higher
Education during Covid-19
Digital initiatives of UGC & MHRD for Higher
Education during COVID-19
- e-GyanKosh (http://egyankosh.ac.in)
- Gyandarshan
(http://www.ignouonline.ac.in/gyandarshan/)
- Gyandhara
(http://ignouonline.ac.in/Gyandhara/)
- Swayam
- e-Adhyayan (e-Books)

14. - e-Pathya (Offline Access)
- National Digital Library of India (NDLI)
(https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/)
- e-Yantra (https://www.e-yantra.org/)
- FOSSEE (https://fossee.in/)
- Virtual Labs (http://www.vlab.co.in/)
- e-ShodhSindhu (https://ess.inflibnet.ac.in/)
- Shodhganga (https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/)
- VIDWAN (https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/)
- National Educational Alliance for Technology
(NEAT)(https://neat.aicte-india.org/
- SAKSHAT (https://sakshat.ac.in/)

15. Post Covid-19 Trends of Higher Education
• Encourage personalized learning
- Student Attendance may slow down.
- National and International student mobility for
higher study may be reduced.
- Learning with social distancing may continue.
- Educational institutions may run with different
shifts per day.
- Raise the gap between privileged and
unprivileged students
- Teaching learning may run with technology.
- Assessment system may be changed to new
shape.

16. . Demand for Open and Distance Learning
(ODL)and online learning may grow.
• Blended learning may take the leading role.
• Student debt crisis may rise.
• Unemployment rate is expected to be
increased

17. Suggestions for Higher Education
• Educators and learners should be
trained to utilize online teaching
learning process using technology.
• Academic assessment of the students
may be done through online mode or
through quizzes and small projects.
• HEIs should focus more on virtual
educational activities including
television, radio and web-based
education.
• Many countries are now planning to
continue education through distance or
virtual mode and India should plan for
the same also.
• Indian traditional knowledge systems
in different fields should be integrated
with a present-day mainstream higher
education system.

18. CONCLUSION
• Partnership between technology and
education is going to stay forever.
• Education Institutes can divide the
courses into conventional teaching and
online teaching, it will help in inculcating
the technology into the classrooms.
• India should develop creative strategies
to ensure that all children must have
sustainable access to learning during
pandemic COVID-19
• Post Covid-19 education seems to be an
education with widely accepted
online/virtual education.
• All service providers need to be
mobilized to provide proper access to
the educational service platforms to the
disadvantaged groups of population

19. THANK YOU
AND
THINK SENSIBLY