article on affect on teaching in covid 19
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In March, when the number of COVID-19 cases in Italy was around 60,000, one of my friends in that country, a professor in Milan, told me that he was teaching live from home. Around 150 students had connected to the online class and they asked him questions via chat. In fact, all the classes of the Politecnico di Milano, having 40,000 students, became virtual since the second week of March. His wife, an elementary school teacher, is also teaching from a distance, but mostly not live.
One of the worst hit by the Covid-19 pandemic has been the education sector. The closure of schools, colleges and universities around the world has affected over 87% of all the world’s students, according to a UNESCO report. Classes have been suspended and exams at different levels postponed. Class X and XII exams of various boards, and important entrance exams like the IIT joint entrance have been delayed in India. Different boards have already cancelled the annual exams for Classes I-VIII, and some also did that for Classes IX and XI as well.
The semester exams scheduled in May, in universities across the world, are now all set to be suspended indefinitely. And the chain of academic events and the academic calendars will be jeopardised if those are not completed in time. There is a serious threat that this academic year will eventually be shifted by a few months all over the world. Certainly, the students in the final years of a course will suffer the most.