Fostering formal education by online education

Abstract

Recently, education has transversed the unknown terrain of a quarantine imposed by the COVID-19 (popularly known as coronavirus), which has left over 850 million students around the world studying at home according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO, 2020. This situation has stopped the formal education system and brought distance education and online education to the agenda. The objective of this study is to address the situation the education is in. A qualitative and descriptive study was conducted for in-depth and further probing and questioning of respondents based on their responses to the versus formal education halting due to Corona Virus, where researcher also tries to understand the problem and highlighting solutions in case of stopping education. From the results of the study, to achieve the ideal learning objectives, it is also necessary to have a sufficiently trained teaching staff in the methodological plane of online teaching, including the use of technical resources. At his point, using virtual online systems in education makes it necessary for both students and teachers to take new positions and acquire new roles in education. In the study, it is pointed out that teachers and students should fully plan lessons with integrated technological resources to support the digital transformation process by adopting predominantly technology-based teaching models and systems. By the new virtual classrooms, teachers create an environment where students can freely interact with one another and their education will continue without disruption.