COVID-19 and Online Education

Online education, it is the most recent word that came up with world pandemic covid-19 as the prevailing situations that going with the epidemic are non avoidable things for us. As this is going on, we have to adapt it with new routines to continue our usual dose for day long.

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When covid hit on every field in country, the most damaged field is education according to my opinion. Yes it also made a severe damage on economic too. But as the students who are waiting to accept the country in future, the impact of this pandemic is becoming harder and harder on them with their studies.

When covid is started, all the schools, universities and othèr higher educational institutes were closed without up coming reopening dates. When days passed, the government encouraged the educational departments to arrange distance learning methods and online education came up with it. As a country like sri lanka, there are number of rural areas which lack of essential internet facilities and other fundamental resources to reach this goal, "online education"

Unfortunately I also had to come back to my home from my university by leaving it for a long vacation. Every weekdays I have to attend to my online lectures with pretty tough schedule. It is really hard to pay attention to learn by seeing laptop screen for continuous 2 or 3 hours. In some cases there are few students who are unable to attend online lecturers due to poor internet connections in their areas. This is a tragic and they are missing and escaping from their lectures everyday.

The educational method went upside down with this. But still there is no sophisticated method to conquer this situation. Both ALs and OLas were postponed due to this situation and the entrance of upcoming new batches to universities were also postponed. The ongoing university degree programs are postponing with lack of practical sessions to be completed. In education system, this is totally a time wasting thing but we have to tolerate and survive first. This covid also snatches the times of youth and wasting it without any second thought. I feel sorry for myself too and hopefully waiting for a day to see things get clear for everyone.