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Online Learning: A Panacea in The Time of COVID-19 Crisis: Literature Review

Online learning has several advantages such as accessibility, affordability, and flexibility. It allows students to learn anywhere and anytime through online courses and programs. Blended learning approaches that combine online and in-person instruction can increase student learning. During the COVID-19 pandemic, online learning serves as an important solution as it allows education to continue while students and faculty practice social distancing. Online platforms are needed that enable video conferencing, discussions, accessibility across devices, recorded lectures, and feedback.

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Online Learning: A Panacea in The Time of COVID-19 Crisis: Literature Review

Online learning has several advantages such as accessibility, affordability, and flexibility. It allows students to learn anywhere and anytime through online courses and programs. Blended learning approaches that combine online and in-person instruction can increase student learning. During the COVID-19 pandemic, online learning serves as an important solution as it allows education to continue while students and faculty practice social distancing. Online platforms are needed that enable video conferencing, discussions, accessibility across devices, recorded lectures, and feedback.

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Online Learning: A Panacea in the Time of COVID-19 Crisis

Several arguments are associated with e-learning. Accessibility, affordability,


flexibility, learning pedagogy, life-long learning, and policy are some of the arguments
related to online pedagogy. It is said that online mode of learning is easily accessible
and can even reach to rural and remote areas. It is considered to be a relatively
cheaper mode of education in terms of the lower cost of transportation,
accommodation, and the overall cost of institution-based learning. Flexibility is
another interesting aspect of online learning; a learner can schedule or plan their
time for completion of courses available online. Combining face-to-face lectures with
technology gives rise to blended learning and flipped classrooms; this type of
learning environment can increase the learning potential of the students. Students
can learn anytime and anywhere, thereby developing new skills in the process
leading to life-long learning. The government also recognizes the increasing
importance of online learning in this dynamic world.

The severe explosion of Corona Virus disease can make us add one more argument
in terms of online learning, that is, online learning serves as a panacea in the time of
crisis.

Literature Review
Online Learning or E-Learning

Rapid developments in technology have made distance education easy (McBrien


et al., 2009). “Most of the terms (online learning, open learning, web-based learning,
computer-mediated learning, blended learning, m-learning, for ex.) have in common
the ability to use a computer connected to a network, that offers the possibility to
learn from anywhere, anytime, in any rhythm, with any means” (Cojocariu et al.,
2014).Online learning can be termed as a tool that can make the teaching–learning
process more student-centered, more innovative, and even more flexible. Online
learning is defined as “learning experiences in synchronous or asynchronous
environments using different devices (e.g., mobile phones, laptops, etc.) with internet
access. In these environments, students can be anywhere (independent) to learn
and interact with instructors and other students” (Singh & Thurman, 2019). The
synchronous learning environment is structured in the sense that students attend live
lectures, there are real-time interactions between educators and learners, and there
is a possibility of instant feedback, whereas asynchronous learning environments are
not properly structured. In such a learning environment, learning content is not
available in the form of live lectures or classes; it is available at different learning
systems and forums. Instant feedback and immediate response are not possible
under such an environment (Littlefield, 2018). Synchronous learning can provide a lot
of opportunities for social interaction (McBrien et al., 2009). Amidst this deadly virus
spread such online platforms are needed where (a) video conferencing with at least
40 to 50 students is possible, (b) discussions with students can be done to keep
classes organic, (c) internet connections are good, (d) lectures are accessible in
mobile phones also and not just laptops, (e) possibility of watching already recorded
lectures, and (f) instant feedback from students can be achieved and assignments
can be taken (Basilaia et al., 2020).

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