| | 8 December 2021HIGHERReviewIN MY VIEWIN MY VIEWBy Dr. Sunita Gandhi, Founder, Global Education & Training Institute and Global Classroom One of the many aspects of COVID-19 is its impact on India's education system and industry in general. From unprepared teachers to online education to a new education policy, it was all too much to soak in. However, many critics be-lieve it to be a paradigm shift that the system was longing for? Or is it too early to say so?The lockdown has fastened the re-ception of technology in every sphere. E-learning, as the name suggests, de-pends on the accessibility and open-ness of technology, yet practically no accessibility of such nature is a huge task to work on before turning to the online industry. In an ongoing 2017-18 study, the Ministry of Rural Devel-opment found that about 47 percent of Indian family units get about 12 hours of electricity and over 36 percent of schools in India work without power. This implies while students from af-fluent families can explore the oppor-tunities of online learning, those from oppressed backgrounds are probably going to capitulate to shortcoming and an absence of this transition, either in light of the detachment with the tech-nology or the low-level of training of their parents to direct them through these applications.Schools and training insti-tutes should initially take a note of their current abilities and assets to go online or give distant learning services. This ought to incorporate an assessment of the accessible advance-ments and conveyance systems. The assessment ought to be done in two stages: one, to check the school's preparation to react in the present situation when going to schools is not an option; second, for when the schools may re-open. To comprehend external solutions, schools must talk ONLINE EDUCATION: A WAY FORWARD INTO THE FUTURE OR NOT?
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