Educational institutions across the world are all set to re-open and resume offline classes for all students. In many countries and even many cities in our own country, schools, colleges and all other educational institutions have already re-opened and students and teachers have been attending classes physically. The re-opening of educational institutions with full strength is a possibility only because of the COVID-19 vaccine being developed and the number of COVID-19 positive cases gradually reducing. While educational institutions have been ordered to open with full strength and all students are required to attend classes regularly, many parents are not very willing to send their children back to school until the pandemic situation totally improves and a vaccine is introduced even for the younger children. While their concern is valid, it is not practically possible to not re-open schools and colleges and resume offline classes until the situation is back to normal.
The normal that will now exist, even when there are no new COVID_19 positive cases will be very different from the old normal. Even the education system will not go back to the old ways completely. The attempts and efforts that have been made to develop online education tools for smoothly teaching and learning in the online space will remain in use and will be enhancing the experience of the teachers and students in the offline classroom space. Similarly, human interaction and personal touch, which are elements of the offline education system will be helping in improving the shortcoming and drawbacks of the online system. Many teachers and tutors who started their teaching careers online during the lockdown phase of the COVID-19 pandemic have been trying to find answers to various questions like how will they continue teaching or how to teach online when schools and colleges re-open?
Many people are anticipating that once the schools and colleges re-open and classes resume in the offline mode, when all the students will finally be back to their classrooms and no one will be staying home due to COVID, all online tools and resources for online teaching and learning will become obsolete. As mentioned in this article before, this will not exactly be the case. The tools like websites, apps, software and various platforms that were built specifically to support online classes and facilitate online teaching and learning ensured that any loopholes or shortcomings in the offline system were eliminated. It also ensured that the monotonous and tedious tasks were automated and people could devote more time to other important tasks. Keeping in consideration, these benefits and also the flexibility and variety of features that these tools offered, there is a great possibility that both the online and offline systems are used alongside and the various useful tools of each system are used together.
For tutors who wish to teach online using a classroom app or a mobile teacher app or an online courses app could be good options. All these apps will still be useful in different scenarios and will help you in teaching online and continue conducting online classes. When schools and colleges open online, for some time, there will be students who will not be willing to re-join due to the scare of the pandemic. In such cases, hybrid classes will be adopted and while lectures continue in the offline classrooms, students will be able to attend the same using a virtual classroom space or a video meeting platform.
Tuition centres and coaching centres also adopted online teaching and online classes methods. These methods were not only useful for continuing classes during the pandemic but also offered solutions for conducting one-on-one classes for students who needed additional help. Teachers could conduct classes for multiple batches together or give individual attention to a student as required.
Online courses and online apps for offering courses on various subjects also allowed teachers and other professionals to teach students from around the world. They could create a course while sitting in New Delhi and teach a student in New York. This offered students additional help with a variety of courses and subjects. Even when schools and colleges open offline, students will be applying for and attending such courses to reach their goals. Online teaching can easily take place in such scenarios.
