Abstract
Following the outbreak of COVID 19 in February 2020, Indian universities were shut down and used digital platforms to teach their students since then. Drawing from Kolb’s Learning Theory, John Dewey’s theory, Jack Mezirows transformative learning theory, and Jean Piaget’s theory, the authors in this paper offer a viewpoint on some of the practical teaching practices which can be adapted in business schools in India to be successful in this emerging blended or phygital environment. Using a Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework, the authors reflect on the effective teaching practices based on their own experience, theoretical knowledge gained from an exhaustive web search of various databases of the period, particularly from February to August 2020. The authors performed a careful manual content analysis of the selected research papers. They concluded seven principal teaching methods to create an effective blended environment for students and faculties in Indian business schools: a) reframing virtual spaces in India through online knowledge repository and virtual labs b) using reflective thinking for andragogical and pedagogical Indian approach c) Indian teachers’ readiness to offer various genres of courses on demand d) reinforcing resilience in Indian schools through meaningful participation and conflict resolution e) purposeful learning and inquiry-based learning for Indian students f) experiential learning through an inclusive online pivot in India g) useful apps are discussed to reach out to Indian parents community. These initiatives can influence academicians, educationists, podcasters, and the entire teacher fraternity to design an efficient and adequate teaching plan for the student community in India.
Highlights
COVID 19 is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered virus, “Novel Corona Virus” (Dhawan, 2020)
Taking cues from some established theories of learning, the authors furnish unique teaching initiatives in this paper to combat the challenges of online teaching put forth because of the novel COVID-19 pandemic (Refer to Figure 3)
While one cannot deny the importance of the offline education system, the future would be directed towards blended learning guided towards online pivots and a digital mindset
Summary
COVID 19 is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered virus, “Novel Corona Virus” (Dhawan, 2020). Speaking, the entire student and teacher community must bridge a gap quickly from the offline mode of teaching to complete online mode This is without a choice for either of them as large sums of money are involved. The fact remains, organizations and sectors that can successfully transform themselves from a physical model of operations to online would be the only ones to survive this crisis To serve all these needs, the organizations need to turn to a blended model of education, which has been referred to as phygital mode (George, 2020) of education. There has been much research on education and teaching in the COVID pandemic None of those have focused on the practices that can increase teaching effectiveness in a phygital mode, in a B school context. We present a framework based on the research findings that the education institutes can use for designing effective teaching pedagogies
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