Online Teaching amidst COVID-19 in India: An Outlook

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Published: Nov 28, 2020
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Challenges, COVID-19, Lockdown, Online teaching, Teachers

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Amit Joshi
Assistant Professor, ICFAI Business School, ICFAI University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Muddu Vinay
Vice Chancellor-, ICFAI Business School, ICFAI University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Preeti Bhaskar
University of Technology and Applied Sciences (Ibra College of Technology, Oman)and ICFAI University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Abstract

The lockdown imposed in India on 25 March 2020 resulted in the indefinite closure of education institutes all across the country. The government and educational institutes were quick to respond, they shifted teaching from offline to online mode. This article aims to identify the approaches made by the higher education institutions for continues imparting of education amidst lockdown. The article also identifies the challenges faced by teachers in online teaching from their homes. The study is descriptive and analytical in nature and data has been collected from secondary sources like reports, news articles, blogs, interview videos, magazines, social media, and journals to achieve the objective of the paper. Based on the secondary sources' information, the article also advocates the learning curve for the future to deal with any such crisis impact on the education system of India. The findings revealed that higher education institutions (HEIs) have taken many initiatives in this pandemic situation for imparting education. But these initiatives have not been very successful from the teacher's perspective. Teachers faced may issue in online teaching such as lack of technical facilities, family interruption, lack of training, lack of clarity & direction, lack of technical knowledge. The learning curve of the article facilitates the HEIs to help them to execute the online educative in an effective manner.

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Joshi, A., Vinay, M., & Bhaskar, P. (2020). Online Teaching amidst COVID-19 in India: An Outlook. Asian Journal of Distance Education, 15(2), 105-111. Retrieved from https://www.asianjde.com/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/454
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Author Biographies

Amit Joshi, Assistant Professor, ICFAI Business School, ICFAI University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Dr. Amit Joshi is triple post-graduate in Economics, Commerce, and English; he has completed his Master’s Diploma in International Trade from Symbiosis, Pune. He has been awarded a degree of M.Phil in Economics and is a Doctorate in English. Currently, he is working as the head of the department at ICFAI Business School, ICFAI University, Dehradun. His area of expertise includes English, Business Communication and Life Skills. He has more than 18 years of teaching experience and has several research publications in various reputed journals to his credit. He has also authored poetry book “Stimulus:From darkness to light ( A collection of motivational poems)”. He has presented research papers in several national and international conferences that include places like Dusseldorf, Germany, Saint Petersburg, Russia, and University of Dubai, etc. His research interests include communication strategy, the art of writing, disseminating knowledge, personal effectiveness, marginal productivity theory, trickledown effect and communication modeling. He has conducted many faculty development programs, student development programs, and corporate training programs. His motto in life ‘if we are not a solution to a problem, then we are the problem’.

Muddu Vinay, Vice Chancellor-, ICFAI Business School, ICFAI University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Professor Dr. Muddu Vinay is the Dean, IBS & Pro Vice Chancellor at the ICFAI University Dehradun. He has around three decades of rich experience in the field of Education, Training, Planning, Management and Consultancy. He is acknowledged not only for establishing Institutions but also leading them to excellence in Academics and Research with his path breaking initiatives. Dr. Muddu Vinay has held several positions of eminence in professional bodies in the field of education both globally and in India. These include Chairman IQAC(Internal Quality Assessment Cell), Proctor, University of California, Berkeley Extension. He has spearheaded and pioneered various programmes in the field of higher education especially in postgraduate studies in collaboration with reputed schools in India, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Singapore and Malaysia. He is the present expert peer committee member, National Board of Accreditation, Govt. of India, New Delhi. He has also been the expert member for various professional organizations that include Higher Education UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), World Bank and MHRD. He has been conferred with ‘Award of Excellence- Eminent Educationists’ in the IndoAmerican summit 2016, MTC Global Award for Excellence 2013 in ‘Innovation in Teaching Pedagogy’, ‘NESA Fellowship Award 2012’ and ‘Leadership and Responsibility Award’ by Presidency Group of Institutions, along with many other awards and accolades in his illustrious career. He has personally trained more than 30,000 individuals undertaking undergraduate, post graduate studies as well as research scholars, University teachers and teaching staff. He is widely acclaimed for creating successful business models in the education sector without compromising on the ethical dimensions of teaching as a profession

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