P: ISSN No. 2321-290X RNI No.  UPBIL/2013/55327 VOL.- IX , ISSUE- VII March  - 2022
E: ISSN No. 2349-980X Shrinkhla Ek Shodhparak Vaicharik Patrika
Impact of COVID-19 on Education In India : A Theoretical Overview
Paper Id :  15930   Submission Date :  06/03/2022   Acceptance Date :  20/03/2022   Publication Date :  25/03/2022
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Anil Kumar
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Meerut College
Meerut,Uttar Pradesh, India
Neha Kashyap
Research Scholar
Sociology
Meerut College
Meerut College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
Abstract COVID-19 now became the global pandemic and affecting all aspects of the people were facing the problem of lockdown education system has been stopped, learning and teaching being a new type of Education through ICT, Digital learning now available for everyone. Improve the E-learning through Information Communication Technology experience. The education Institutions are required to comply with the guidelines and recommendation by the government. E-learning play a important role in pandemic time like Diksha portal, Google classroom, E-pathshala, SWAYAM, SWAYAM PRBHA through ICT and MOOCs, Digital learning became more effective for teachers and learners. Online teaching have more positive and negative effect on teachers and students.
Keywords COVID-19, Education system, Digital learning, Private School, Teachers.
Introduction
The COVID-19 a global outbreak a pandemic has spread worldwide and affecting almost over the world and territories. This COVID-19 firstly defined in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The countries around the world cautioned the public to take responsive care. The novel human corona virus disease COVID-19 has become the fifth documented pandemic since the 1918 flu pandemic. Corona virus was officially named severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-COV-2) by the International committee on the taxonomy of viruses based on phylogenic analysis. This pandemic is transforming society in profound ways, often social and economic inequalities in its wake. The countries around the world has been faced this pandemics. The public care precautions are must to protect this disease like hand washing, wearing face masks, physical distancing, and avoiding mass gathering and the assemblies. People are facing the Lockdown and staying home strategies have been put in place as the needed action to flatten the curve and control the transmission of the disease. The Emergence of corona virus disease has because the unsalutional disease for the public health crisis. In India for control spreading this the government used protocols for sewing the people and government restricted on all non-essential public movements (Saha et al. 2020)This virus impact on society and in India we can see after Lockdown, education system has been stopped children's were not going to school because of the disease. In all over the countries Bhutan became first country to declared closing of schools and Institutions. In that time there is a pressing need to innovate and implement alternative educational and assessment strategies. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided us with an opportunity to use and learn digital learning. So that time online learning has been observed as a possible alternative to conventional learning. To improve the e-learning through information communication technology experience, the education institutions are required to comply with the guidelines and recommendation by the government for the students encourage to continuous learning remotely in this pandemic time.
Aim of study In the light of above mentioned framework the following objective will be undertaken:- 1. To know the impact of Covid-19 on Education system. 2. To identify the positive and negative effects of Covid-19 on teachers and learners. 3. To identify the changes and opportunities for institutions due to Covid-19. 4. To Analysis the effect of online teaching and learning.
Review of Literature
Mukesh Reveal (2021) discussed about an analysis of Coivd-19 impacts on Indian educational system, fussing on education during online teaching and assessment of students getting online classes in this pandemic from settings at home. Indian education system is still met mature / developed at the rural and urban areas. So student and teacher affected by both negative and positive conditions but still make collaboration between teacher and students for learning based on online education. Ashish Kumar (2021) explained impact of Covid-19 on educational system. Most of governments around the world decide to have temporarily closed educational institutions in an attempts to reduced the distance of education between the teacher and students. Covid-19 impact on education became the affected more other aspects, like impact on employment etc. M. Pandya Nayak (2021) explored a comprehensive study of pre and Post Covid-19 affects in Indian education system, In the time of Covid-19 when worldwide education has be affected so that time educational structures worldwide have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, contributing to the closing of schools, colleges and universities education has been started by online platform through the MOOCs and others.
Main Text

Impact of COVID-19 On Education System 

Corona virus that originated in China, and spread all over the world. This impact happened on every aspect like economically, socially and health. In socially we can see most one impact on education in India. As education a basic right of an individual is in pitiable from in our country India. The education system and the educators have adopted "Education in Emergency" through various online platforms and are completed to adopt a system that they are not prepared for it.

The flipped classroom is a simple strategy for learning for all learners in that pandemic time. That time e-learning and this trauma can be solved only by establishing modern system equipped with scientific technology and scrupulous teachers. This well definitely yield paramount mountains and helps in solidification of education system in COVID time E-learning tools have played a crucial role during this pandemic, helping school and universities facilities student learning during the closure of universities and schools. According to doucet et al (2020) system have a new changes, staff and students readiness need to be gauged and supported accordingly. Learners have fixed mindset and they feel difficulties to adopt this but some students feel good to see and use all the new types of system. Through e-learning India make a digitalized and more teachers know about the digital tools to fetch and learning and learning become more effective. There are no fixed all pedagogy and andragogy for all this is happing. There a variety of subject with variety needs. Different subject and age groups require different approaches to online learning.

The use of this type of education, online education depends upon experience related to ICT and exposure about this, for both education and learners. Some of the online platforms used to so for including unified communication and collaboration platforms such as Microsoft terms, Google classroom, canvas and Blackboard which all these allowed to teacher to create the educational technology, to improve their skills and also happened training and skills development programs.

In COVID time for learning continuously our country has started more platforms for teaching and learning. These all platforms are based on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) these all are here we will discuss :-   

On the Base of India Response

1. Diksha Portal this is a platform offers teachers students and parents engaging learning material relevant to the prescribed school curriculum. Teachers have the access to learner's curriculum including video lession, work sheets, text books and assessment. Under the guidance of National Board of education (CBSE) and NCERT, e-book for class. This app can be downloaded from IOS and Google play store. Website: https://diksha.gov.in or https://Seshagum.gov.in.

2. National Repository of open Education Resource (NROER) portal, this is developed by CTET, NCERT, it was launched during the National Conference on ICT for school education, launched in 13, August 2013 in here, collaboration with the department of school education and literacy, MHRD, government of India. In this teacher used multiple languages including books, 134, interactive, 1664 audios, 2586 image and 6153 videos on different languages. Website : https://nroer.gov.in/welcome.  

3. Google Classroom, the educational tool proposed by the software giant is more than a decent solution for schools which suddenly had to switch to online learning. In classroom uses well-known G suite tools, such as Google Docs, calculations, sheets, online presentation tools and video call tool.

4. E-pathshala, is an e-learning app by NCERT for classes 1 to 12 in multiple language. The app give books, videos, audio, etc. dimed at students and educators. This portal NCERT developed 1886 audios, 2000 video, 696 e-books and 504 flip books for classes 1 to 12 in different languages. Nobile app is also available website : https://epathashala.nic.in or http://epathshala.gov.in.

5.SWAYAM, is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of education policy stands for "Study Web of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds." 1900 courses covering both school (class 1 to 12) and higher education (under graduate, post graduate programmes) in all subject including engineering, humanities and social science, law and management course through MOOCs (Massive open online courses) website: https://swayam.gov.in/. It was launched on 9th July 2017.

6. Swayam Prabha, is a learning platform which launched on 2017 by PM Modi Ji. This is a 32 DTH TV channels transmitting educational courses on 24 x 7 basis. These channels are available on viewing all across the country using DD free Dish set top box and antenna. These channels are uplinked by BISAG (Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geoinformatics), Gandhi Nagar.

Positive Impact of COVID-19 on Education

Throughout the COVID-19 we can see many negative impact on education, or educational institutions. In that pandemic India has accepted the challenges and trying best to provide seamless support services to the students and learning. India got a new system from traditional to new positive impacts on teaching and learning in this pandemic time in India these all are :-      

1. Rise in Online Meeting - This COVID-19 has created a massive rise in teleconferencing, virtual meetings, webinars and e-conferences opportunities.

2. Developed Digital Learning - In this pandemic situation people were not healthy by physically and mentally so for continuing study digital literacy became a part of life.

3. Improving Electronic Media - Learning became interactive and learning material are shared among the students easily and quarries are resolved through online platforms. Also usable for learning these are - Whatsapp, Facebook, E-mail etc.

4. Worldwide Exposure - Through the online method people have opportunity to interact with peers and teacher - learner interaction become on the world. Learners adapted to an international community through webinars or other sources.

5. Better Time Management - students are able to manage their time for learning because they know online class will be happen at this time. So time more efficiently in online education during pandemics.

6. New Teaching Method Through ICT - Before this pandemic time, learners learn in school and college universities but now because of lockdown teaching become online through ICT and old / traditional teaching and learning replace in new. More teachers and learners have opportunity to learn new - new technologies.

7.  Use Soft Copy of Learning Material - In the lockdown time students were not able to do study or collection of hard copy so they studied theory soft copies.

8. Use of Non-conventional Method - Now education system became modern and, through ICT we all did study on the pantomimic time, conventional method was, ask students to recite and memorize the content of study and what they teach in classroom. But now, innovative / modern teaching methods that involves the use of technology.     

9. Collaboration Work - This opportunity make for everyone, collaboration teaching and learning can take on new forms.     

10.  Demand for Open and Distance Learning - During this COVID-19 time most of students preferred open and distance learning for encourage self learning.

Negative Impact on Education System

Education sector has suffered a lot due to the out-break of COVID-19. It has created many negative impacts on education. Education was also hampered by the economic crisis, which reduced the output. According to studies the epidemic has denied almost 32 crore students of an education. This is being referred to as a national crisis, with an increase in unemployment as a result.

1. Educational Activity Hampered - Schools has been closed because of Lockdown and classes have been suspended and education system almost disbalanced so that so that is a negative effect on education.  

2.  Unpreparedness of Teachers and Students - We don't use more ICT in education but at the pandemic time we have to choose this so. Students and teachers were not prepared for the online teaching they both were not ready for this sudden transition from face to face learners online learning.

3.  Parents' Role - In Urban area there is no problem with online teaching but in rural area online teaching was a big problem for parents because they don't know how should teach their children by ICT.

4.  Create Difference - This online teaching - learning method create a big gap between rich v/s poor. Urban v/s rural students.

Impact of Private Schools Teachers Life

Teachers like a God who create us from their knowledge, teachers make, us better. They are the ones who does not only make, the nation and make the world a better place. A teacher teaches us the importance of a pen over that of a sward. They teach our and have should live in society all things we learn from teachers.

They are like the building blocks of society who educate people and make them better human beings. They become our friends when we are sad, they inspire us, motivated us and create us for established in the society. We can see how great a teacher is impact on student's life and shapes but very unfortunate in our society we can see most of teachers in our society feel underpaid, marginalized they have more knowledge but they are working in the private society. In private sectors teachers feels bad and also exploited. But in the time of Covid-19 all learners and parents realized the importance of the teachers. In the pandemic time schools were closed due to Lockdown but for continiously education teachers teach us online, they give us online education through the various online platforms. Private teachers did most efforts for continuously education of learners their financially situation was not would but they are continuously teaching the students.

Result and Discussion

In this study on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on teaching and learning across the world conclude that although various studies have been carried out. Through online education, students understand importance of teacher and teaching because teachers affects too much and learning growing up continuously. In this pandemic results show about the positive and negative effects on all over education system. The teachers and learners learn through ICT Based learning and teaching, learners should be oriented on use of different online educational tools. According to Doucette et al. 2020, All type of assessments which are authentic and timely feedback are essential components of learning their a online platform in the Covid-19 period

Conclusion As all the students and teachers were interact through information communication technology and through ICT. Due to Covid-19 education system has been change traditional to modern and more teachers and learners now know about the ICT how to use for teaching and learning. And in this technology time people became digital so we can see many positive changes as well as negative changes like who don't know how to use online platform they faced many problems like rural areas mostly parents and learners. Overall we can see Covid-19 is a worldwide pandemic now people learn to survive with this and online teaching will be continuo for learning in our education system.
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