Role of Information Technology in Education During Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 has changed the view of education around the world. During the mid-march all the schools and colleges were shut down to save faculties and students from infection. It has been around two months of lock down; still we are fighting with covid-19. Since school colleges are the places where social distancing is little tough due to the presence of number of students, those cannot be opened by the government until the pandemic comes under control. In this situation, education is shifted to the method of home-schooling and home-college. Although this is too early to pass the judgment on how corona pandemic will affect the education in long term, there are indications suggesting that it will have great impact on teaching learning methods. Information technology is playing a great role to support the education during COVID-19 lockdown. Due to use of Information technology at large scale in various countries, this is the best time of innovation of new ideas on the digital platforms for delivering the education. This paper presents various tools and techniques to continue quality education while lockdown through digital media. These platforms would definitely continue even after the pandemic get over.