Rhea Writes

(Source: Google)  The Covid-19 pandemic across the world has taken the lives of at least 1.2 million people with more than one thousand and twenty-eight of them from India. The rate of confirmed cases of infection is taking a new spike here, every day, with more than 8.64 million new cases reported as of 10th November 2020. With the academic sessions and examinations already canceled by the respective State Governments, the educational institutions in India are looking forward to completing what is remaining of the previous session's curriculum, by conducting online classes via different websites like Google Meet, Google Classroom, Zoom Meeting, and Skype. The risk of community transmission and mass contamination had entailed the closure of schools, colleges, and universities since the end of March, this year, just before the occurrence of the severe outbreak. It would not be incorrect to say that this deadly virus has paved a path for the initiation of “ formal e-learning ” in I...