Is online education furthering inequality? | The Media Rumble 2022

How did India’s education sector cope with the disruption of the pandemic? Did the resultant push to conduct classes online affect marginalised groups adversely? What lessons did the industry learn?

The #MediaRumble 2022 discussed all this and more at the session titled “Digitising Education”. Moderated by Mohit Satyanand, entrepreneur and chairperson of Teamwork Arts, which organised the media festival along with Newslaundry, the session had as speakers Aashish Mandhwani of Shri Ram Schools, Kishalay Bhattacharjee of the Jindal School of Journalism and Communication, Maya Mirchandani of Ashoka University, and Paroma Roy Chowdhary of Byju’s.

“Learning for us was two ways,” said Mirchandani. “One was to re-tailor our content that was meant to be imparted in a physical classroom. Second was to learn from digital-savvy students to make our classrooms more interesting.”

The session also tackled the question of whether the pandemic furthered the inequality in the education sector.

Watch.

00:00 to 02:37 Session glimpses

02:38 to 08:53 Education challenges due to Covid and how they were addressed

08:54 to 13:40 How seamless was the digitisation of education during Covid?

13:41 to 18:08 How did online classes affect privileged students and EWS students?

18:09 to 20:46 Challenges and opportunities for ed-tech startups during the pandemic

20:47 to 24:41 How to tackle the trend of after-school tuitions?

24:42 to 32:05 Innovation in pedagogy with digitising education

32:06 to 36:14 Did the digitisation of education equalise the access to quality educators?

36:15 to 43:05 What have we gained and lost with the digitisation of education?

43:06 to 52:59 Audience Q&A

53:00 to 53:14 End

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