GURUGRAM, MARCH 29
The nationwide lockdown due to Covid-19 has initially thrown higher education in deep crisis but most of the educational institutions, including many universities, have adopted online teaching from home. It is all the more gratifying that the young students have found Online Classes both interesting and greatly satisfying, says eminent Academician Prof PB Sharma, Vice-Chancellor of Amity University Gurugram.
Speaking to navjeevanexpress.com, he said, “At Amity University, Gurguram the use of technology in education was already well integrated with our education innovations and almost all the entire academic management was on IT savvy Amity Intranet ‘Amizone’ which is the backbone of Amity academic and administrative e-governance.”
Further, the Amity University has a long experience of online classes that were going on years for a great many African Countries live from its e-education studio at Amity University Noida, he added.
The IT team of Amity has made excellent arrangements for conducting online classes in all its Amity Universities across India utilising Microsoft Teams, Microsoft LMS, Zoom meetings of HoIs and faculty and also trained its faculty in all the Amity Universities for use of e-platforms and the LMS system.
This prior preparation came quite handy to smoothly switch over to conduct Online Classes from home, as the university was closed since March 14.
As per the online reports being received from various institutions in Amity University Gurugram, the attendance of students in online classes is almost 90-95%, more so because of the attendance of students. The timely conduct of online classes as per schedule is automatically recorded thus and leaves no room for alteration later on.
The Online Classes have become a great saviour for higher education in India during the pandemic Covid-19 crisis and have paved the way for more effective integration of online and offline teaching-learning environment that the UGC and the MHRD have been trying to create for some time.
“Online Classes are also providing a great learning experience both for the students and the faculty. At Amity University Gurgaon, we have also asked our faculty to record as many classes as possible and thus create and upload online e-resources for further use by students.”
“As the Vice-Chancellor of AUH, I feel so satisfied that despite the threat of disruption of higher education caused by Covid-19 our faculty has been able to cover fully even semester syllabi and also conduct Online tests for internal continuous assessment. The challenge now is to prepare for Online Conduct of End Semester Examinations if the lockdown continues beyond the 21 days ending on April 14,” Sharma added.
“I am also very happy to note that my fellow Vice-Chancellors across the country have taken up the task of keeping their academic activities going n online. For us, besides the safety and protection from pandemic virus, the protection of the academic and professional interests of our students is of paramount importance.
“I express my deep sense of gratitude to my Heads of Institutions and the learned faculty members for their excellent cooperation in making online teaching-learning environment so enriching and highly successful.
“In line with the vision of the Founder-President of Amity Education Group, Dr Ashok K Chauhan, we are fully committed to empower each one of our student with world-class education and research and innovation acumen and also to make our faculty deeply engaged in society and Industry-relevant R&D,” says Kulpati Prof PB Sharma, Vice-Chancellor AUH who is also the Founder Vice-Chancellor DTU and RGTU Past President of AIU.
