Remote Learning: Challenges and Effective Strategies

Education is a process of all round development of a child. It is helpful in drawing out and developing innate abilities. Although education isa life long process including both formal and informal education but formal education plays vital role in shaping human life. It provides direction to our life. During the procedure of formal education, the two personalities- the teacher and the taught make influences upon each other. Face to face interaction occurs in uation that makes teaching learning process more effective and alive. But due to pandemic Covid-19 the educational institutions are closed for the students from last few months. Although schools and colleges are making efforts to approach their students through online modes but recreating traditional classroom situations through online devices is not an easy task. Remote learning is also a mean of education to facilitate the students at their homes during the present situation when opening institutions and organizing traditional classes is not possible. Remote learning provides opportunities to students to study remotely from their homes but they are desired to follow a given time schedule. All classes run at their fixed time according to time table and all students are required to join classes with their teachers at the given time schedule. Remote learning is very helpful at the time of emergency but it doesn’t mean that it should be used only in emergency like pandemic Covid-19. It can also be used with offline traditional classes for more better result. But its success depends upon some factors such as attitude of teachers and students, students’ home environment, their participation in remotely organized teaching learning activities, their determination, network connectivity, students’ self motivation etc. In traditional classes where face to face interaction is possible, teacher plays important role to motivate students to participate in learning activities but in remote learning although teacher tries to provide motivation by giving positive reinforcement but without students’ self motivation the teaching learning process can’t runs properly. Teaching remotely is different from traditional teaching in these ways. Remote learning could be made more interactive and effective with the help of some strategies such as following punctuality, increasing participation of students, giving attention on students ideas and thoughts, fixing small goals that could be attainable in one day etc. The present article aims at describing the challenges of remote learning. The author has made an effort to explore challenges of remote learning and to present some strategies for effective remote learning classes.

• Remote Learning
• Challenges
• Strategies

Dr. Vandana Singh(2021), Remote Learning: Challenges and Effective Strategies, IPEM JOURNAL OF INNOVATIIN TEACHER EDUCATION, 6 (1), 44–48.