Educating in Emergency!
Educating in Emergency! by Anand Deshbhratar Educating in Emergency As I write this article, there already is great confusion and uncertainty about the reopening of schools and colleges for this academic year. Various educational institutions are in dilemma on how to continue their courses/education at this time of emergency. There is massive pressure from EdTech groups to pursue educational institutions to go fully online. Many institutional managements are not only happily welcoming this but also forcing it in their institutions (without waiting for the Government Guidelines), and I am afraid that in doing so, the very fabric of " learning " is being compromised as the desperation is out of institutional sustainability than the learning itself. In addition to that, in this process, the most important stakeholders remain neglected. Yes, you guessed it right! I'm talking about the students, who may be forced to change their mode of learning which they hav