Lokesh, although the COVID-19 pandemic has provided new opportunities for the facilitation of teaching and learning, including the use of digital technologies to enhance online, open and distance education, it has also presented us with a range of challenges. These include, among others, the need to upskill, retrain and acquire new competences related to digital utilisation and online learning facilitation, generating and maintaining students' active participation in the learning process, ensuring attendance, maintaining fairness and due diligence in online assessment processes and so on....Interesting.

Thanks Jhon for your valuable answer.

Hello,

So yes, technology has become the primary mode of education during the pandemic, which is a very positive thing in itself. But at the same time, it is not possible to build the kind of student-teacher rapport that is generally created within a classroom. The warmth is missing. Through technology one can surely transmit information, but a classroom requires way more than that. Particularly with small children. They will only learn how to absorb information, without knowing what it means to have a beautiful student-teacher relation.

Thanks Sanjay for your valuable answer.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345737698_Survey_on_general_awareness_mental_state_and_academic_difficulties_among_students_due_to_COVID-19_outbreak_in_the_western_regions_of_Uganda

Thanks a lot Anisha for your valuable input.

Challenge is that students really do not know how to use online education programs. So, always start from orienting the process of the online education program.

Thanks lot Jafar for your valuable points.

In my opinion, there is an opportunity to create new skills in teaching. A lot of us have been trained years ago. Teaching in new ways is a challenge, and, I think, we must make an effort to familiarize ourselves with the new methods.