Sitting at her home, Mrs. Behera taps the Cisco WebEx app on her smartphone and is immediately logged onto the virtual classroom where all her students, sitting at their respective homes, are waiting for the day’s lesson. Welcome to LFH - Learn from Home -- the new norm for learning in Year 2020, in the times of Corona.

An overnight transition to a lockdown mode poses extraordinary challenges to the nation. Some sectors are better-prepared than others. The education sector has undergone rapid transformation during this lockdown and has opened up newer possibilities for now as well as post Covid-19.

Applications like Zoom, Google Hangouts, Cisco WebEx, Microsoft teams etc. have come to the rescue of teachers trying to remodel lesson plans designed primarily for classroom delivery. The government has also tapped the national television network to reach a large section of students who do not have access to the internet. With the initial issues like scaling up and security now pretty much out of the way, here’s a look at some of the facets of these recent developments.

Uninterrupted access to learning from the comfort of their homes ensures that students can continue to learn remotely for as long as necessary. This would be crucial if there are subsequent waves of virus outbreak and classes would need to continue to be held off-premises. Recorded sessions can serve as on-demand resources that can make up for some degree of reduced engagement levels in an online medium. Technology enablement can also unlock novel opportunities for educators like interspersing interesting, multi-media content between lectures and notes with greater ease.