Impact of Pandemic on Education Sector

Abstract

Recent Carona Virus (COVID-19) outbreak in the world created a tragic impact on a global scale. Due to massive, rapid, and universal spread of this disease resulted in death, destruction and lockdown of many countries. Lockdown, although a small preventive measure, has helped control the spread of disease to a certain extent. This has made huge impact on all the sectors of every country. All the sectors are hard hit, education is one of them. It is estimated that 290 million students got affected due to this pandemic. Faculties and students like others are forced to stay home. Many schools, colleges, universities curriculum completion, projects, examinations, practical schedule collapsed. Even though e-learning, ed-tech, cloud learning is available, many institutions and organizations were caught off-guard to cope up with this kind of global crisis. There are thousands on organizations, which are miles away from implementing technology in education field. This paper talks about steps that can be taken by the institutions to bring technology in teaching. Tools that can be used by educational institutes in case of such global crisis or situation need to be. Measures can be implemented by institutes so that it is able to continue teaching without any issue.