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Do You Think India Is A Good Fit For Online Teaching?

Do You Think India is a Good Fit For Online Teaching?

Indian education has been working on transitioning to online transmission instruction, but they are still behind on this technology. The Corona Virus has changed the priorities and shown what will happen in the future of education. With schools closing nationwide, we can see that India's educational institutions will shift to Online Teaching whether they like it or not.

 

Worldwide, 3/4 of students are under 6 years old. There is an unknown pandemic increasing the risk of 32 crores Indian students. However, it hasn't gotten sufficient attention from global media due to lower funding for health care policies. The Indian government currently spends 4.6% of its GDP on education-less than sub-Saharan countries which spend about 10%. Timely care is needed for quality education but there has been no clear focus on this at all from the Indian government. Some very good indicative facts demonstrate that India isn't prepared for online teaching:

 

At the moment, there is no financial relief planned for education from the government, who has billions of rupees to invest in new citizens. COVID-19 had formerly been invested in the long-term, but that was not an idea on how to continue in this present time for the education sector. Without financial support or specific, immediate plans, thousands of new Indian citizens are joining the sector. COVID-19 relief plan has many long-term visions, but without any suggestions of how to continue to move forward at this moment.

 

This process has created an unorganised and unclear regulatory environment that allows anything and any company to become a teacher without oversight or regulation. The education regulators of India allow anybody and everybody to teach students, with no formal guidelines.

 

Potential parents in India may not be ready to pay tuition or show positive attitudes towards private universities. Families surveyed believe the fees are too high and want guarantees of seeing their children participate in lectures, if they can't visit physically.

 

Students are accustomed to being self-directed learners, and can build learning skills without a teacher. They therefore want education that motivates personal development and direction, rather than grades or career guidance.

 

From day 1 of blended Online Teaching, in India teachers have had to develop new methods and adapt to technological change using the skills that they already had. By 2020, teachers were forced to transition their profession and do so with rapid speed due to harsh reality.

 

Oftentimes, it's difficult to know what exact quality of lectures you're getting. In India, there are no standards in place for online courses, so many of them offer classes that have no value to the job market and employers.