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Informative Article | Education Management | India | Volume 9 Issue 8, August 2020

Emergence of an Alternative Education System Following COVID-19 Pandemic: Possibilities & Pitfalls

Sutirtha Pal

Abstract: An indomitable courage is necessary to combat disasters like Covid-19 pandemic and a prompt action is deserved to resist the shocks. The present century has witnessed an unprecedented pandemonium situation affecting education, health and employment sectors tremendously. By virtue of in-built capacity, Medical Science has registered its progress, while education sectors have to be accommodated with a new online system which requires a bit hardship to tackle with the teaching-learning process. The situation becomes more precarious in the third world countries, where technology-based higher education system has not been well-built yet. Neither the teachers, nor the students are accustomed with the modern e-learning process. As such Covid-19 has taught us to set up a new framework by which online course development coupled with student support functions are to be modernized and required managements of online learning system have to be revolutionized.

Keywords: pandemic, unprecedented, hardship, precarious, revolutionized

Edition: Volume 9 Issue 8, August 2020,

Pages: 1501 - 1504