Fozia Roohi
Humanities
October 2022
Sudden announcement of shutting down the countries due to global pandemic, not only brought the economic and social activities at stake but made a fuss with education sector too. Online or digital education served the education as life line during those days and evidently introduced a shift in higher education from paper pen based traditional system of education to highly digitalized modern classroom system. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, where instruction is now conducted remotely and on digital platforms, there has been a noticeable surge in online learning. The challenges faced by teacher educators during COVID-19 are highlighted in this paper together with the situational changes that were evident in higher education in India, notably in teacher education, before and after the pandemic.
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