| | 8 July 2020HIGHERReviewIN MY VIEWIN MY VIEWCORONA CRISES LED TO NEW EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIESBy Dr. Gitanjali Kalia, Associate Professor, Chitkara UniversityIn mid February, when the corona virus was penetrat-ing into the roots of our country, all the organizations and companies permitted their employees to work from home. Meanwhile, educational institutions be-came ambiguous about their regularity and started pon-dering over to manage their students and other academic Stuff. As every difficulty is a opportunity to learn some-thing new, online teaching emerged as a solution in this cumbersome time.According to All India Survey on Higher education 2018-19 by Ministry of Human Resource development, there are 993 Universities, 39931 Colleges and 10725 Stand Alone Institutions in India. Therefore, in a country with maximum of young population, keeping them en-grossed with productive work was very challenging. Soon the institutions figured out the ways to train and equip their teachers with software's for online teaching. Thus online teaching in this hard time has opened new avenues for educational institutions offering distance learning course, coaching centre, home schooling, etc. Wheth-er it is one to one learning, group learning, and virtual classes and so on, educators and students are making the best use of this hour to horn their intellectual and creative skills. Hence, we can say that when the economy is on the verge of declining, education sector is the only one that is emerging in new light.Let's have a look at how this time of crises has opened new doors for education sector:a. Educational Institutions: Earlier when the edu-cational institutions were just restricted to smart classes, internal software's of institution, teaching through Mic-rosoft office, etc. With the urge to reach out all the stu-
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