E-Learning during Coronavirus Crises

The novel Coronavirus has badly affected the education sectors all over the country. Almost all countries have announced complete or partial lockdowns to stop the spread of the virus. About 1.3 billion children are unable to go to schools due to coronavirus threats across the entire world. Ultimately, schools and educational institutions are closed down due to ongoing coronavirus crises. Students are unable to complete their semesters or courses as they are confined to their homes to spend quarantine days at home. Moreover, all the exams of countries besides Cambridge exams have been cancelled or postponed, which is a real cause of worry for students who were in their final years of graduation. Educational organizers and officials are devising some tangible policies to continue the education of students at home to prevent a longer loss of studies.

E-learning as the most effective strategy

Online learning through various websites has been one of the most adopted strategies to convey lectures to students while staying at home.Consequently, education has transferred to more digital and online platforms to bring a dramatic change in education in these corona crises. Scientists have said that Corona threats may last longer or even it may take unknown time to bring the proper treatment of coronavirus. Therefore, e-learning can be proved as the most convenient way to deliver education to students at home. It has been proved efficient as it takes less time to deliver lectures and lectures can be saved in devices in this way this can be beneficial for students as well as teachers to pursue education by the digital world. 

Efficacy of E-Learning

• Students who have internet resources with devices they can take complete benefits of e-learning
• It does not require a specific learning environment for students; they can easily get skills with having laptops, android devices while sitting at their homes in a more peaceful atmosphere. That is why it is the cheapest way of acquiring skills.
• They can save about 30-70% material while taking lectures online instead of at schools where they were able to apprehend little information on their notebooks.
• Students do not have to travel to distant places in these lockdown days to their school to acquire educationand its cost-effective for them because it will save their travel tickets and time for travelling as they can take traditional skills at the comfort of their houses. 
• While students learn at their environment during online classes, so they learn more quickly than schools because they do not have to waste time for reading, taking out books, making notes, and all settings at schools. It takes less 35-65% time to learn via e-learning.
• Students who want to get some new learning skills and courses without any subscription fees can take advantage of e-learning at different online sites and different countries have launched freelancing programs for their students to make them skilled and logical.

Challenges we face in e-learning

• Firstly, the most crucial challenge is the availability of internet resources and devices for students who are unable to get these due to some approachability or economic issues. The government can ensure feasible resources for students to help them continue their education in these critical days.
• Secondly, training teachers and instructors to handle students on online digital platforms and delivering lectures online with limited resources has been a crucial phase to encounter. Teachers should be trained in a short time so that they can make sure the presence of all students and can handle any obstacle while schooling online.
• Researchers have said that kids are quite slow in the learning process as they need some breaks and handling with the tenderness that seems quite tough with online learning. Experts believe that learning online through online games can keep children interested and concentrated because it provides them with some sort of fun element along with studies.

The true essence of education

The coronavirus has wrecked the education field and researchers fear that the essence of education can be lost while changing our mode of education.  Researchers regard analytical and reasoning skills as a vital essence of education in our society which has been disturbed due to threats imposed by the virus. It is evident that e-learning particularly focuses on delivering academic knowledge and traditional skills to students. Experts question this rapid transition of education because they think it can hinder the main goals of education. Critics consider that we have partitioned our ways to deliver our ambitions of giving logical thinking and credibility to students by transferring swiftly to new educational strategies which can be harmful to the future because we have not seen some tangible benefits of e-learning yet.

Future of e-learning                                                                                             

Some people have doubts over online learning because of few resources, insufficient training of teachers, poor internet facilities, and students' lack of interest –they said that it would create a certain gap between teachers and student studies due to inadequate resources. Other people believe in this digital way of learning and they encourage and consider the incorporation of information technology into education as future achievement and it will enhance learning and eventually become a vital part of the learning process.  Besides, all the obstacles e-learning has brought education back on the track for students that would not be possible in these crucial days of the pandemic. Hence we can only admit the effectiveness of online schooling and it has proved to be the perfect alternative though with some limited benefits. In the end, we should encourage and try to improve it if we are willing to keep our children learning during these days of the virus.