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Volume 22:11 November 2022
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Myth and Reality of Online Tools in Education

Sujatha.U. M.A., M.Phil. and Dr. Rajasekaran, V.

Abstract

The internet era makes it difficult to imagine any aspect of contemporary society without technology. The outbreak of COVID 19 made the situation even more severe and created a drastic change in many fields of the country. As the World Health Organization has declared COVID 19 as a pandemic, mandatory shut down of educational institutions modified traditional classrooms into digital platforms to keep education going. The schools and colleges had to change the pedagogy halfway through the curriculum and prepare the students to face their exams by the end of the academic year. This situation made the teachers and students confront a sudden shift in the mode of the teaching-learning process. Academic institutions, which followed the traditional chalk and talk (Face to face) method for decades, are totally abandoned and shifted to online teaching pedagogy. In this situation, online technological tools stood as a propitious aide to help them. This paper discusses the role of Edtech in education during the pandemic, its strength, weakness, and challenges faced by students.

Keywords: Edtech tools, pedagogy, Edtech, online teaching, online learning, technology.

Introduction

COVID 19 led billions of students worldwide deprived of going to schools and colleges because of the lockdown insisted by the government to control the spread of coronavirus. This pandemic made the task of getting students into the classroom more complex than educating them. The teachers should confirm various safety aspects among students like social distance, physical health, nutrition, proper sanitation, etc. Since it was impossible for the teachers to monitor those aspects, the online teaching and learning approach is considered a safe solution to ensure health and education simultaneously. “Several arguments are associated with e-learning. Accessibility, affordability, flexibility, learning pedagogy, life-long learning, and policy are some of the arguments related to online pedagogy. It is said that online mode of learning is easily accessible and can even reach to rural and remote areas.” (Dhawan, 2020)

Innovative technology and Edtech tools create brilliant ways for the teachers to deliver the content and monitor the students in the online platform. As the online teaching atmosphere is new for many students, Edtech tools provide ease in the teaching-learning process with more study materials and room for interaction with other students. Modern educational tools like EDMODO, Class craft, Seesaw, YouTube, Whiteboard, Adobe spark video, Google classroom, Nearpod, etc., stimulate the creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills of the students and accentuate education in a fruitful way.

Due to the advancement of modern technology and the fast-paced world, online learning and Edtech tools gained more significance in the field of education and their importance thrives day by day. The year 2020 witnessed that online learning and Edtech tools play vital role in the education sector, and it is widely accepted by the people. This led to heavy competition in the Edtech start-up sector and resulted in high-quality study materials. Some of the leading Edtech start-ups like Talentedge, Eruditus, Vedantu, Byjus, etc., aim to replicate the traditional classroom with the digital world and provide out-come-based education to the students. The content and the study materials are designed with the objective to satisfy the need of the learners at different grade levels from kindergarten to university.

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Sujatha.U. M.A., M.Phil.
Research Scholar
Department of English
Vellore Institute of Technology, Vandalur, Chennai – 600 127
sujatha.u2022@vit.ac.in

Dr. Rajasekaran, V. M.A., M.Phil., M.Sc. (Psy.), M.A. (Sociology), Ph.D.
Senior Assistant Professor of English
Vellore Institute of Technology, Vandalur, Chennai – 600 127
rajasekaran.v@vit.ac.in
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