IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

COVID-19 Lockdown: Turning Isolated Educational Disguise Into Online Blessing

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Tariq Ahmad Lone

Abstract

“Blessing in Disguise”, an old saying has been proved true during the current covid-19 pandemic lockdown. It has been able to get best out of human intelligentsia, who have put in their best efforts to keep humanity going in such tough times. Educational sector being no exception has been tremendously benefitted by the technological advances that have been put to their best use, perhaps for the first time since their introduction into the technological world. People in academics seemed to be technophobic and were therefore unable to use technology to their advantage. As soon as covid-19 lockdown was announced worldwide, academics were forced to look for alternatives to traditional teaching/learning, and fortunately technology provided the solution. Thus, as we see, there was a surge in the use of cloud based collaborative video conferencing tools. As the race started, it even became difficult for teachers and students to choose a particular tool as there were many of them available in the market. Every tool available has its own strengths and weaknesses. In this study an attempt has been made to see the usage growth of these tools and also provide a comparative statistics cum study of their pros & cons.

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