A REVIEW ON EFFICACY OF E-LEARNING DURING PANDEMIC CRISIS

Abstract

The severe impact of Covid-19 has shaken the world to its core. Education institution were temporarily closed in an attempt to contain the spread of covid-19 pandemic, as the consequence of which learners ranging from school going children to post graduate students were affected. Educational institution in India is currently based on traditional methods of learning that is face to face learning in classroom. Few have started moving towards the blended system of learning. This pandemic challenged the education sector and is forced to move towards the e – learning. There has been a significant surge in usage of Technology such as audio, video, computer, tablets , mobile devices, blogging, webcams, whiteboards, screen casting etc in learning since Covid-19. The paper focuses on will this e-learning mean for the future, will it make part of new-normal. It studies the advantages such as cost reduction, increase convenience and flexibility, improves employee knowledge, ease of content update and disadvantages such as requirement of self-discipline and time management skills, diminished social interaction, not suitable for every topic, lack of practice based learning, reliance on technology etc of e-learning. Further it studies the challenges ranging from learner’s issues, educators issue and content issues, challenges for institution to engage students and make them participate in teaching –learning process, challenges by teacher to move from offline mode to online mode, the lack of standard for quality, quality control, development of e-resource and econtent delivery ,it highlights the stipulations by government regulating e-learning, barriers in its implementation, ensuring the digital equity. Finally it ends with the conclusions and suggestions, how e-learning can be made best efficient in this time of corona era.