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Covid - 19 Lockdown-Challenges To Higher Education.: April 2020

The document discusses the challenges of online education during the COVID-19 lockdown in India. It outlines several challenges, including unequal internet access for rural and lower-income students, issues with live streaming lectures due to poor connectivity, and the inability to conduct practical laboratory work virtually. It also describes the difficulties students faced leaving campus and not having access to textbooks. To address these challenges, the author has used apps like Zoom, Easy Class and Google Classroom to continue instruction. While online education is not ideal, it is seen as a temporary solution during the current difficult situation.

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Covid - 19 Lockdown-Challenges To Higher Education.: April 2020

The document discusses the challenges of online education during the COVID-19 lockdown in India. It outlines several challenges, including unequal internet access for rural and lower-income students, issues with live streaming lectures due to poor connectivity, and the inability to conduct practical laboratory work virtually. It also describes the difficulties students faced leaving campus and not having access to textbooks. To address these challenges, the author has used apps like Zoom, Easy Class and Google Classroom to continue instruction. While online education is not ideal, it is seen as a temporary solution during the current difficult situation.

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COVID -19 LOCKDOWN-CHALLENGES TO HIGHER EDUCATION.

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COVID -19 LOCKDOWN-CHALLENGES TO HIGHER EDUCATION.

The world today is facing pandemic as the Corona virus is sweeping its way
around the globe and its impact is only beginning to be visible. The pandemics has
brought in many deaths, thousands have been quarantined and has led to a serious
situation of global health emergency. The need of the hour is social distancing and
excellent medical care. The pandemic has led to a total lock down world over and
India is no exceptions. As of today around five thousand have been reported and
infected by the virus and around fifty have been reported dead. This has warranted
a complete shutdown of all the educational institution along with other business
establishment. The shutdown of the education institutions has led to many
apprehensions among the students and teaching fraternity. However the teaching
fraternity has been adopting innovative methods to interact with the students and
focusing on the curriculum. In this context I have been trying to analyze the
challenges of e-teaching and its limitations.
The first challenge was to assess the student’s access to internet connectivity.
Specially, the students from rural and backward class. The students were expected
to have a smart phone with 4G compatibility to enable streaming of the live
teaching.
The second challenge was to have good internet connectivity even in urban areas to
avoid buffering and lagging of the live stream, this can happen when Internet
connection speed is inadequate to accommodate the encoder’s bitrate or if there is
excess load on the server which will make the application to crash.
The third and the more important challenge is the live streaming focuses only on
the theoretical imparting of the subjects without actual use of the laboratory, as
technical education is more practical based.

Harsha .R, Assistant Professor. Dr AIT, ECE Bengaluru Page 1


From the student’s point of view the challenges were, the students had to leave the
hostel and PG’s immediately due to lockdown and they could not carry their text
books and laptops to their native and as such it was not possible for them to take
part in the e-learning. The final year students are worried and are anxious to know
if they will have an extension of the current semester due to which there joining
dates for companies are extending. Students who are planning to take admission in
foreign universities and who want to pursue their higher education in India are
worried that due to this lockdown they might have to lose one year. I have also
been counselling the students to instill confidence in them.

The challenges however are minimized with the use of many e-teaching or e-
learning apps. The apps such ass Google class room, Zoom, Easy Class, Go To
Meeting, Remind, Slack and many others have been adopted to reach the students
as far as possible. Now the challenge was to select an app in among the ocean of
applications available on the internet catering to every ones needs which was not
only low data consuming but had better stability during the live streaming.

I have used different apps for different purposes for teaching the students for the
live streaming / conferences/ lecture series zoom app has been used. For assigning
the students assignments I have used the Easy Class app. For students who cannot
join the online class room I have uploaded the PPT in digital share an online
platform so that the students can download the PPT whenever they get internet
access and any doubt clarification is conducted through normal calls.

To conclude, the students have accepted the online teaching courses with open
heart. They are really happy that I and my Institution are putting so many efforts to
keep the curriculum on track amidst the lockdown.

Harsha .R, Assistant Professor. Dr AIT, ECE Bengaluru Page 2


On top of all the issues and against the backdrop of these challenges, I believe that
Online Education is “not a substitute but an appendage to classroom teaching
and other methodologies. It is a temporary aid during the difficult situation
that we are facing”

Harsha .R, Assistant Professor. Dr AIT, ECE Bengaluru Page 3

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