Technology has disrupted every sector and it has become more significant now during the lockdown where everyone is working remotely. At such a time, edutech companies has come to the fore. Before lockdown it was looked at as a complimentary tool to the traditional methods of education. However, with the lockdown and schools being shut for over 2 months, more and more parents and teachers are exploring technology solutions for education and trying to bridge the gaps between classrooms and students.
If you are a student struggling to write an essay, this article will come in very handy. A professional writer has agreed to share his experience in the niche of essay writing to make the process much easier and more interesting for you. He will be answering some of the most common questions students ask when they need to write a high-quality paper and can’t seem to find the right answers to start working.
The global disruption caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. According to UNESCO, there have been 177 temporary country-wide closures of educational institutions across the globe. This has affected nearly 1.3 billion students. While the immediate safety of students should be prioritised, we cannot underplay the fact that the pandemic is holding back student development.
Virtual classes was a popular form of distance learning or an option for furthering knowledge in post-secondary education. With the sudden closure of educational institutes and the following lockdown, online learning through virtual classrooms became a necessary tool for furthering education.
Choosing a career after your class 12 board exams is a daunting decision. While the traditional careers like medicine and engineering are viable options for students who pursue science at the senior secondary level, the best options for commerce students are a little different. Realistically speaking, children today have ten times more career options as compared to their parents.
Though maths is an interesting subject, it’s a hard nut to crack for a majority. That is why teachers lookout for different strategies to make teaching more creative, funny, and engaging to invoke interest in the kids. Gamification and math puzzles are among the most tried out techniques in today’s classrooms and the idea of maths jokes is not novel.
In normal times, children are mostly occupied with their social world outside of family whether it be their school or tuition classes or any other extra-curricular class. And when at home, they are busy finishing up assignments and coping up with their syllabus. But now with the covid-19 lockdown, it’s an opportunity for kids to grow beyond their syllabus as they get to spend more time with their parents. Here are some activities that parents can have with the children:
Doing a part-time EMBA (executive MBA) via face-to-face online is a big investment in both time and money, typically over an 18 – 24 month time-frame. However, calculating the return on the investment might be huge given that it is intended to help people become a better generalist manager and then transition to become a more effective leader. Therefore, an EMBA's ongoing investment benefits can be determined and calculated over many decades. It can help sharpen your leadership and decision-making skills. Here’s some examples about how this is done:
The global outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has put forth several challenges for parents. They are juggling between work, household chores, childcare and online learning. In view of the rising stress for parents, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has shared some tips to help manage children's education while at home.
Change is the only constant as said by many learned professionals and moving away from your comfort zone only makes you accept challenges beneficial for your own future.
Face-to-face education is in a quagmire due to large-scale outbreaks of global pandemic COVID 19. The education sector in India is worst affected along with health crises across the country. An estimated 184 million school children are out of formal schooling, examinations are in a halt, evaluation work is postponed, new admission process in all educational instructions are in cold storage. As a country of 1.35 billion population, we must think to engage our school going students, which is 20 million much more than students attending colleges and universities.
Following a directive of the central and state governments, all schools and educational institutions have been required to shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic up till April 14. Most of the exams including board exams, medical and engineering exams have either been postponed/rescheduled or cancelled. The only resort students can turn to in order to continue their education and finish the syllabus is online learning.
Good Bye! I waved blissfully to my school friends with a twinkle in my eyes as I deboarded the bus. Humming away to the notes of ‘let it go…’, I skittled my way to the doorbell, tapping away at everything in sheer glee! Yippee, no exams, holidays begin.
India will be touching a whopping USD 5 trillion economy in the coming years by generating more business within the country, through avenues such as emerging startups, loan through Mudra Scheme and ease of doing business spanning across industries and verticals. However, alarming facts emerged from the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2019 that ranked 117 countries based on hunger; amongst which, India was ranked at the 102nd position and was the lowest-ranked among all the other BRICS nations. GHI rank is calculated based on children who are under 5 years of age and have inadequate weight vis-a-vis their recorded height. There are significant facts supporting the impact of starvation on an education system, wherein underdeveloped minds are unable to access basic education due to the lack of proper infrastructure and brain development. WHO reported that there are 155 million children under the age of five who are underweight for their height and there are around 50 million more, stunted children. Due to their condition and inadequate physical growth they are unable to read till the age of 8 years.
Let’s face it - these are unprecedented times! The past 2 weeks have led India to deep-dive into a digital learning, study-from-home model. While it’s natural for you to feel confused & worried with this rapid escalation, the real test of this model lies with how well you adapt to it! Yes, you reading this piece!
Fashion is an ever-changing ecosystem; what we see in vogue today may not be there tomorrow and then the same trend may re-appear after a few years. There are various factors that affect this semi-gradual change, and thus young aspirants who are interested in working in the fashion industry ought to understand its interlinked, multi-channel processes.
At a time when people are becoming aware of the need to stay away from infected surfaces, the importance of keeping floors clean and infection-free cannot be overemphasized. There is a need to keep the floor tiles as clean as possible. Thankfully tile makers are using advanced technologies to keep the floors clean and microbe free, when hygiene meets beauty and durability.
How safe is your home? We are not talking of external threats but of internal threats like bacteria, algae and other microorganisms. Unlike floors and tabletops, there are several inconvenient and inaccessible surfaces, especially walls within our homes (and offices) that harbor bacteria leading to fomite transmission, that is, transmission of infectious diseases by bacteria left on surfaces.
The nation wide lockdown due to pandemic Covid-19 has initially thrown higher education in deep crisis but the universities and many colleges in India have been able to adopt online teaching from home. It is all the more gratifying that the young students have found online classes both interesting and greatly satisfying, says eminent Academician Prof PB Sharma, vice chancellor of Amity University Gurugram.
As the countries around the globe are battling with an unprecedented crisis that has hit humanity and every facet of human life has taken a hit, including education. To counter this crisis, online classes are being conducted by Amity University that are catering to over 100,000 students live remotely across its campuses around India and across the globe. These measures are being undertaken as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus and to safeguard the health of our students and faculty members.
I remember, when I was preparing for my New York bar exam, I enrolled for an exam preparation course called BARBRI. After I got the course books, I had to go to a learning center, where every morning instead of a real professor walking in to the classroom to teach me, a video would be switched on. An instructor would come on the TV screen and for over 2 hours would instruct us on some nitty-gritty of NY state law. As the course wasn't interactive, the lectures were simple, precise and foolproof. Once every couple of weeks, a living being would walk in to clear doubts. I did pass the exam and never really missed the physical presence of a professor instructing me on the course curriculum.
Genome/gene engineering or editing "is a method that lets scientists change the DNA of many organisms, including plants, bacteria, and animals. Editing DNA can lead to changes in physical traits, like eye color, and disease risk," according to the National Human Genome Research Institute.
With school final term and board exams round the corner, students and parents are anxious and nervous about academic performance. Here are three books which offer practical and useful advice on how to prepare for and attain success in school, college and beyond - Mini P.
Every year, lakhs of candidates compete in the RBI Assistant examination. This year applicants are fighting for 926 vacancies making it highly challenging in nature. Due to high competition, time constraint and the difficulty level of the exam, one must utilise their time strategically and ensure consistent efforts for each section.
User Experience (UX) Design -- also known as Human Centered Design -- is a multidisciplinary field that deals with user needs, their working environments, ergonomics, and the trouble-free interaction of user while interacting with the system or a product in either digital or a physical form.
When the Delhi government announced its plans of opening India’s first sports university in October 2019, it was a revolutionary decision in the history of education. The idea to include sports in the main curriculum was a much-needed initiative to normalize sports-focused education in India. This gave our youngsters a full-time opportunity to enhance their skills in sports and pursue a career, a move that needed a major mind shift more than anything, across stakeholders including schools and parents.
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