As the COVID-19 pandemic is still impacting every sector of the economy. Though the schools, colleges and institutes are closed and students are at home are less in touch with their friends. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way of delivering information, sharing knowledge and has eased learning. According to COVID-19 situations, all education process has turned from thinking digital to being digital. Now we will tell you all the impacts of COVID-19 on the education sector.
1. Use of Video Broadcasting Tools
Almost all schools and universities have developed an internet system. They have empowered video broadcasting tools such as Zoom, Google hangout, Web-Ex, Microsoft teams and Google meet to offer to learn at home. These video solutions helped educators to organize live stream classroom sessions for students. It includes virtual learning such as recording, live video, audio, live questions & answers chat through mobile app or website.
2. Use of Asynchronous Learning Programs
This type of learning program is student-focused. This learning program allows learners to complete courses without the compulsions of being present at a particular time or place. The students can share ideas, feedback, and queries with educators and fellow learners, but mostly they won’t get an immediate response. For example, the Digital library assists students without a facilitator.
3. Use of Real-time Social Media Channels
This helps to create online learning opportunities to guarantee education that reaches every student’s doorstep. The social media links such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, are helping schools, colleges and other institutes to give information with multiple impacts and embrace the ‘learning anytime, anywhere’ tradition.
4. Education firms nurture in popularity
Many companies out with their popular applications such as ClassDojo, Dreambox Learning, and Google classrooms which helps to leverage the opportunity and bagging new customers by offering free access to their content platforms. Such mobile apps guarantee massive involvement between student and teacher through live-streaming classes and online tutorials. All of this helps to reinforce the education systems like a bankable option for learning at scale.
5. Organizing Online Tests and Assessments
This role minimizes human errors and biases that occur based on favouritism. As per conducting fair examinations, these digital platforms have to lead it to that stage. Yet, various platforms are experiencing their thumps up in market involvement. They’re also playing a huge role in securing the digital learning field.
6. Automated online proctoring solutions
This type of solutions assists educators to create online tests in many formats. It includes multiple-choice questions (MCQ), essay, typing, aptitude-based questions and so on. On the progressing front, such automated proctoring solutions comes out with an intuitive multi-section window where a grader can turn over various settings to convey explicit evaluations. The AI-empowered video interviews might help to generate exclusive students reports through checking on their internal score and performance.
7. Inbuilt facial recognition technology
This helps to validate the applicant and shares a score to tell them the correct match. For example, if the system records the variation, there will be a quick reaction from confining access and shields the integrity of the test.