The Covid-19 outbreak has profoundly impacted the Education field. As a result, the whole mode of learning has been switched from offline to online learning.
While the advent of the internet and mobile computing was already speeding up the adoption of online learning. The pandemic has made this a need of the hour as suddenly all learning is done online as physical campuses are shut down across the country and the world.
During the lockdown, school and colleges completed the last session of education using platforms like Zoom, Google-Meet and WebeX.
However, after the use of these platforms, the shortcomings were discovered. Few challenges that emerged while using these online platforms may be categorized as under:
- How are students engaged during the live (synchronous) session and attendance captured?
- How much of asynchronous content is to be used and best practices to follow while creating?
- How are proctored exams to be conducted and how to prevent cheating and plagiarism?
- How hundreds of classes can be scheduled, conducted in parallel and recordings shared easily?
- How to track students’ progress when they are remote on projects and group activities?
- How to encourage peer interaction and provide spaces for collaboration?
- How to maintain class discipline when students are not physically present?
Educators are looking for an easy to implement online tool to overcome these challenges in order to create a high-quality student learning experience.
Faculty Development for Teaching Effectively Online
A solution for effective online teaching should not only provide the technology for the above-mentioned tasks, but it should also provide resources for faculty to learn about the best practices for creating great outcomes.
To achieve the comprehensive outcome, TERii has collaborated with an upcoming LMS named Great Learning.
Great Learning has put together an excellent resource for faculty members to learn how to teach effectively online on Great Learning Academy.
One of the key factors of Great Learning is that the faculty members who are new to online teaching can get tips from experts, read articles on best practices and even get a certificate of completion once they finish the course.
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Limitations with an Incoherent Approach to Using Technology
It is evident that Emails, collaborative documents, video conferencing software etc, are not enough for a high-quality student learning experience online.
As these facilities do not automate administrative tasks such as communicating class schedules, conducting live classes, scheduling assessments, evaluating and recording grades, tracking attendance and cannot be used for several other necessary student engagement activities and essential tasks such as proctored exams.
Get Started with a Seamless and Integrated Technology Built for Online Education for Free
The need of the hour for faculties who are looking to move their courses online is a comprehensive solution which can help them overcome all infrastructure and administrative challenges.
A platform which will help them focus on their core competence of designing and delivering a top-quality teaching experience and TERii stands committed on it.
Developed over the past 7 years from the ground up to deliver and support online and blended learning, the Olympus Digital Campus from Great Learning is a cloud-based comprehensive online learning system which has delivered over 2.5 crore hours of learning to over 300,000 students across programs offered by Great Learning in partnership with prestigious universities like Stanford, UT Austin, IIT Madras, and Great Lakes Institute of Management, and now it’s all set to change the way how education is imparted at TERii amid the challenges emerged after COVID-19.
Students will have online learning experience on both desktops and mobile with the use of Olympus.
Olympus Highlights
With the use of Olympus, faculty members will have the ability to do the following within 5 minutes.
- Launch courses, upload and distribute course material
- Conduct live sessions for up to 1,000 students
- Create, assign and grade quizzes and assignments
- Conduct proctored online examinations
- Track attendance automatically
- Generate report card/grade book automatically
- View student engagement metrics
- Maintain session discipline by restricting disruptive behaviour
- Support mobile and desktop learning
The MoU between TERii and Great Learning has been signed electronically between TERii's Secretary Aditya Gupta and Great-Learning Co-founder Arjun Nair.
Dr Sagar Gulati, Director TERii stated that Great Learning had launched this LMS in June 2020, and expressed confidence that TERii teachers will be able to contribute to the students' learning process by becoming fully aware of the platform before the start of the new semester.
He is also confident that this new collaboration will bring the much-required changes for the Online-blended education and students will be immensely benefited from this collaboration.
On this achievement, the institute's secretary Aditya Gupta has appreciated the effort of TERii's Corporate Resource Center Officials of the Institute.
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