siliconindia | | July 20214We have come one full circle, learning in 'smartphone class rooms' and appearing for 'WhatsApp exams', virtual campus tours to Zoom placement drives, ultimately leading to massive increase in 'screen time'. The last academic session will go down in history as beginning of the `new normal' prompted by coronavirus-induced lockdown.Packing of bags for first day at school is history now. Cancelled sports day or farewells, no shared lunches and massively increased screen time, marked the 2020-21 academic session. If you think about it, the new academic session was just about to begin a week after the COVID-19 lockdown blew us down.Smartphones and laptops, which were kind of taboo in schools and meant for restricted usage at home as well, became the lifeline of education throughout the year. COVID-19 pandemic prompted a 360 degree shift from classroom teaching to the online space, including YouTube lectures, Zoom classes, WhatsApp exams and online quizzes.While students miss going to schools or colleges, experts say the "new normal" has opened doors for blended learning which is going to stay in the future and is not just a "stop gap arrangement"Traditionally, the advantages of Blended Learning strategy were reduced time and being more cost-effective than traditional classroom training. Blended online learning removes location restrictions and eliminates travel costs. We have learnt new lessons and we believe that these lessons should be taken forward post the pandemic rather than treating them as stop gap arrangement for now.Emmanuel Christi DasEditoreditor@siliconindia.comBlended Online Learning- Bridging the Digital DivideEditorial Vol 09 · Issue 10 - 02 · July, 2021 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Editor Emmanuel Christi Das Editorial Team Aveek Pal Chaudhuri Avinash Roy Abantika Bhattarcharjee Komal Banchhor Mandvi Singh Rakesh P Sai Nandan M R Sai Nandan M R VP - Sales & Marketing Virupakshi Pattar GM - Sales & Marketing Rohit Kumar Advertising Managers Editorial queries editor@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit https://www.siliconindia.com/subscribe/ or send email to subscription@siliconindia.com Cover price is Rs.150 per issue. Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Alok ChaturvediCopyright © 2021 SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.advertise@siliconindia.comVisualisers Suanya Chakraborty Group Art DirectorAshok KumarNoidaAshu Sethi Garima Anand Shivam AgarwalCirculation Manager Magendran Perumal Ashwini D Naik Naganidhi Shivam AgarwalCorrespondentsSambit Satpathy Subhadarshani Mohanty
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