From Prof.
T.
G.
Sitharam
The abrupt closure of all of the associations in India and across the globe subsequent to March 2020 had contributed to abrupt transformation of traditional face-to-face education to the entirely online (mixed / hybrid) arrangement in several IIT’s and NIT’s at a really short transitional moment.
Originally, it had been quite tricky to go completely to internet platforms for instruction learning, analysis and lab courses.
Because of this Covid 19 outbreak, in which physical distancing, security and hygiene is now the new standard, there was no alternative left for its standard teachers to alter rapidly and embrace to new ordinary in the past 1.5 decades.
Congratulations!You have cast your voteLogin to see resultMany have been scepticalto conduct the internet instruction through the web especially while providing engineering instruction.
But over a really brief period in several months (because of continuing closure of associations with indefinite doubts regarding reopening of those associations ), matters changed quite radically.
Even though the internet education hasn’t become a new idea to teachers generally as well as for specialized instruction, throughout this outbreak online schooling has leapfrogged by several folds and several began embracing it doing fresh experiments.In India with initiative such as National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) and also SWAYAM, online schooling has come to be a viable part of higher education in technology.
But, online delivery is significantly more widely used in engineering subfields like computer and electrical engineering, information sciences and artificial intelligence, computer engineering and information engineering, Web of stuff, management classes, etc., particularly at the master’s or post-secondary degree.
Online learning is now popular only due to the growth of the web and new technology, but because of the scare of Covid 19 outbreak and its spread most are embracing by virtue of this nature.
The technology education that’s been traditionally content-centered with orientation towards designing and lab content todevelop critical problem-solving or thinking abilities in the pupil must embrace abruptly to fully online.
Online or digital schooling has many benefits for these reasons: adaptable and provides broad choice of programmes at reduced cost, available and enables personalized learning experience together with learning efficacy using their pace, faculty and student satisfaction, climbing and price.
Various pedagogical methods have demonstrated efficacy during those days an improvement of technology education occurs because of busy education, flipped classroom with student focussed learning withhands-on project-based learning virtual internships.
IIT’s have improved new learning formats with enabling teachers to utilize the technologies with learning.
Blended learning is the future face of studying across greater educational institutions especially in Engineering and engineering based classes.
Blended learning motivates the student to become more educated with time learning and management abilities as well as this learning the use of technologies.
The majority of the younger generation in India and at especially the pupils who enters specialized instruction domain in HEIs are prepared and equipped to manage this new learning mode.Instructors / educators must build a familiarity with online learning pedagogy and resources for education and analysis.
But a coaching is critical for the majority of the faculty/teachers to successfully deal with this double way of teaching-learning processincluding managing of their learning direction system.Development of honest assessment methods to assess the performance of pupils without a cheating and plagiarism is going to be a terrific challenge for your internet education.It will last to make a digital divide in the state given the fact that its online component will depart the alleged sections in grade 1 and tier II towns deprived.
Governments need to make an attempt to improve access to the web throughout the nation and decrease the digital devide.
If it comes to lab-driven topics, it’s very important that combined learning ought to be cautiously utilised to attack an equilibrium of hand-on, power development and Profession learning.Hands-on instruction in lab classes to operate with gear, tools, and materials can be an intrinsic and essential part of engineering education, which ought to be closely blended in online shipping.
Later on, a mix of face to face and online learning provides students some flexibility concerning position, speed and path.The NEP 2020 enacts many modifications in India’s education policy with focus on engineering assisted learning and aspire to attract many positive facets for your internet learning in higher education specifically technical instruction.
Together with NEP 2020 execution programs, many universities began boosting online engineering instruction for your post-pandemic era.
– Prof.
T.
G.
Sitharam is manager at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.
