Remote Learning in the Context of School Education: Challenges and Opportunities

The COVID-19 pandemic brought a revolution in teaching learning process at all levels of education.School education is not an exception to it.Its impact found all around in varieties of ways.Educational institutions, teachers, teacher educators responded to this situation actively which ultimately forced the students and parents make a transition from conventional mode of classroom teaching learning process to online mode of remote teaching-learning process.A virtual learning environment is created for the students to manage the situation, as there were no other options available.The present piece of work is an attempt to assess the situation of online education (teaching and learning practices at a distance) at school level in Odisha.The findings of the study reflect a comprehensive view of various stakeholders (teachers, students and parents) associated with education of children at school levels and the need for an effective and efficient pedagogy for online education.It also established the fact to strengthen the resources required for making the online teaching learning process effective from the point of view of all stakeholders.The findings of the study also revealed how and why integration of technology (blending) is essential for capacity building of teachers and to support teaching-learning in the context of school education in Odisha.Also, the implications of this study are of very important for designing, development and implementation of online education for quality improvement in school education sustainably.