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A Letter to the editor about the problems faced during online learning and teaching.
Class- 11 English
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One of the major stumbling blocks with regard to online learning is the lack of strong and stable internet connections, as the ones conventionally used at homes have either low bandwidth or have exhausted their limits.
Just the process of logging in for a class itself becomes a cumbersome process for students and teachers alike. Even as upgrading the broadband connection is a prima facie solution, but it certainly isn’t a fool-proof one.
What’s really needed for the purpose is a tool that can make logging in a one-time process. There’s a need for an app through wherein both teachers and students can simply select their class/subject and get going.
2. Conducting assessments
Assessing a student in the right manner is an integral component of the education system. Under normal circumstances, students are made to take a test or appear in an examination on school premises, unfortunately that’s not a possibility now.
In online learning, assessing students through a Multiple-Choice Question (MCQ) mechanism is still feasible as a stop-gap but real learning is measured by conducting a subjective assessment -- this is one of the biggest challenges for traditional edtech solutions that are predominantly MCQ based.
Another related hindrance is checking the assessments. Even if students upload their answer sheets online and if the teacher concerned teaches across five different sections, they would have to assess more than 50 students. And it is particularly an uphill task to upload or download so many answer sheets.
So, what’s needed here is a tool that provides a comprehensive assessment system wherein the requirements of both the teachers as well as the students are met.