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Covid-19 and its
• Students that are new to online technologies
may find them confusing. In this case, teachers
need to make additional efforts to
communicate deadlines and help students
complete their assignments.
• Although online learning doesn't require
advanced technical skills, involved people
need to be comfortable with using a computer
and accessing the internet. In rural areas, slow
internet connections and missing materials
can cause frustration.
There is no doubt that every technology and
advancement comes with some pros, cons, and
has challenges in implementation as well.
Opportunities:
With the number of internet users increasing
rapidly in India, online learning can emerge as a
potential alternative to traditional education but
only through proper planning and execution by the
government. With the numerous opportunities
available with online education, many
educationists have found it to become the
preferred mode of learning in the future. Some of
the opportunities brought forward by online
learning in the present pandemic situation include:
• Students can avail learning resources from
anywhere in the world
• Virtual classrooms can impart quality
education while avoiding the risk of the spread
of Covid-19, which is of utmost importance in
the present
• Students from rural areas do not need to travel
long distances within the country or abroad in
order to study in a good institution if they can
avail online learning opportunities, thus
cutting down costs. But, to do the same, they
would require a good network connection as
well as access to proper educational
technology.
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impact on World
Economy
By Ms. L. Prasanna Laxmi Reddy,
B. Tech (ECE)- 19UP1A0465
The Covid-19 pandemic is a social and an economic
crisis just as much as it is a health one its
repercussions, severe and far-reaching, are being felt
across the world.
From school closures to devastated industries and
millions of jobs lost – the social and economic costs of
the pandemic are many and varied. Covid-19 is
threatening to widen inequalities everywhere,
undermine progress on global poverty and clean
energy, and more. The best solution is to stop this
damage from happening, through the use of tests,
treatments and vaccines everywhere they're needed.
This will cost only a fraction of the huge economic loss
the pandemic is causing every week.
The pandemic impacts all aspects of Society:
To slow the spread of the virus, schools closed across
the world. One year into the pandemic, almost half of
the world’s students were affected by school closures.
Millions of girls in some countries might not be going
back at all, putting them at risk of adolescent
pregnancy, child marriage and violence.
• Businesses closed too, leading to the equivalent of
255 million full-time jobs lost, in terms of working
hours, in 2020. Among the worst hit are workers in
the informal economy, young people and women.
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Any economic recovery will likely be uneven,
leading to greater inequality in the coming years.
• Women have been harder hit economically by the
pandemic because they are a large proportion of
the workers in sectors severely affected by Covid-
19, including accommodation and food services,
and in front-line occupations, such as the health
and social care sectors.
• With the closures of schools, they have also had to
take on more care responsibilities at home.
Whether through job losses or school closures, the
pandemic threatens to undo decades of progress
on gender equality.
• Covid-19 has been slowing down progress on
clean energy too, at least temporarily, by curbing
investments and delaying the expansion of clean
energy technologies.
• There has been some positive climate news: global
energy-related CO2 emissions fell by 5.8% in
2020, the largest ever decline in global CO2
emissions in history. But that’s only a short-term
effect of lockdowns, not a sustained change. In
fact, emissions are expected to rise by 4.8% in
2021, the second highest rate in history, as the
demand for coal, oil and gas rebounds with the
economy.