With the lockdown in force, live online teaching has become the
order of the day, report Peerzada Abrar and Sai Ishwar
For the past few
weeks, Father Muller Medical College in Mangaluru, Karnataka, is conducting
virtual surgery classes for its students. In New Delhi, a pre-school is
teaching kids rhymes and conducting online
classes daily for each toddler. Education group PES has replicated online
the entire physical campus experience for its schools, engineering and medical
colleges across Karnataka, with over 1,000 classes being held daily.
At a time when
India is under a nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus pandemic, much of
the country’s $180 billion education sector is going online to adapt to the new
reality. Many educational institutions are creating virtual learning
infrastructure and radically transforming the way education has been offered
for millennia. And to help them realise that goal, they are reaching out to
technology companies such as Impartus Innovations, Amazon Web Services (AWS),
Coursera and Tata
Consultancy Services (TCS).
Last week, the
government of India also launched a week-long “Bharat Padhe Online” campaign to
crowdsource ideas for improving the online education ecosystem in the country.
Within three days of launching the campaign, the Union human resource
development ministry received more than 3,700 suggestions.
“The coronavirus
situation is forcing everyone to adopt online learning,” says Raghav Gupta,
managing director, India and APAC, at Coursera, one of the world’s largest
online learning platforms. Gupta says India has over 37 million students
enrolled in higher education across thousands of universities and colleges.
In view of the
lockdown, Coursera is giving universities and colleges free access to its
catalogue through its “Coursera for Campus” platform. The platform enables
almost any university in the world to deliver high quality, job-relevant,
on-demand learning to students, alumni, faculty and staff.
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