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Education 2.0 (Data)
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R e s e a rc h d a t a f o r o n l i n e
e d u c a t i o n d u r i n g l o c kd ow n
PROJECT BY:
Aagaman Bharadwaj
MENTORED BY:
Lefteris Herekis
Primary research 1
Survey sample classification Respondents of primary research
Sample was classified as 3 major stakeholder of education system – Name Education level Interview Visit survey Inventory Shadowing
1. Learner - Limitations of remote learning, difficulty in learning and Vivek Tiwari Student of class 6th ✓ ✓ ✓
change in curriculum for online education. (50 sample size) Aditi Ahuja Architecture (UG) ✓ ✓ ✓
2. Educator - technical difficulties they face, the workarounds they do to Prateek Yadav GATE (ME) candidate ✓
remotely send assignments and quiz to students. (100 sample size)
Shruti Ojha Parent of class 4th kid ✓
3. Parents - their role in current education scenario. (60 sample size) Priti Singh Student of class 9th ✓
Survey method was through google forms. No personal identifiable Arvind Shukla Prof. of commerce ✓
information was recorded.
2. Personal inventory – Without the right tools, online education is not 3. Physical health issues of education in lockdown.
feasible. Research subjects were observed with their electronics to 4. Response of student you observe in online education.
find the challenges of remote learning. Learners –
3. In depth interview - Educators and students were telephonically 1. Change in learning approach and curriculum.
interviewed to draw deeper insights into the online education system.
2. Change in assignments. Any visible workload change?
(Names of candidates are changed for anonymity)
Personal Inventory
1. 1 smartphone and 1 feature phone with 4G mobile data in one of them. Smartphone has built in 16GB storage with a 4GB memory card. Memory
card was part of smartphone package. Both these phones are personal communication device for parents. Smartphone is used to attend online
classes in rotation depending upon class timings. Video calls on 4G mobile data is pixelated at best. Signal strength at his home is poor due to
Highrise commercial buildings next to his home which creates a signal blind spot.
2. Stationary – Gel pens, sketch pens, some notebooks for various subject topics, craft objects like scissors, fevicol glue. Minimal stationary to get the
job done.
3. School supplies – Vivek has books for the relevant class. Vivek does not buy books. He only borrows old ones from school seniors or his relatives.
This ensures that he saves on money. If books are not available in physical form, he downloads them from CBSE official website in pdf format. He
stores pdf file in his smartphone. He buys one firsthand copy of the same to take it to his classes.
Personal Inventory
1. 1 smartphone and 1 feature phone with 4G mobile data, 1 laptop with dedicated GPU. She does her work on her laptop mostly. She is not yet
trained with any CAD software.
2. Stationary – Parallel bar, T-scale, Wooden pencils of various grades, cutting instruments, Fevicol and Fevibond bottles, A1 drafting board, A1 ivory
sheets bought in bulk and Sunboard sheets to make models. Right after Holi holidays, she stacked up on A1 sheets and other stationary. She gets
hers stationary in bulk from Lajpat Nagar in East of Delhi as it is generally cheaper to buy from there than other places. Her college seniors advised
her to do so.
Humanities
16%
Science
Management Moodle
20%
12% 40%
Google Meet
10% Smartphone
32%
Fibre optic
12%
Software for PC
34%
4G Mobile data
From browser 53%
46% Broadband
32%
4G Dongle
Phone app 3%
20%
Smartphone
Replace practicals 32%
with theory
assignments
20% Share online videos
of experiments
43% Laptop
68%
Lab and practical education alternatives used Primary device to conduct classes
100 respondents 100 respondents
70 80
No. of educators
60 70
No. of educators
50 60
40 50
30 40
30
20 20
10 10
0 0
Use free Send course Share pre- Doubt Wait to
LMS like content via recorded clearing reopen
Google soft copy lectures over phone
classroom & chat
Electronics used for online education If no LMS is used, how do you conduct classes remotely
100 respondents 100 respondents
1. Monitoring attendance.
2. Automatic evaluation of “Fill in the blanks” type question.
3. LMS platform not as user friendly as Google Classroom.
4. Most LMS do not have built in video conferencing. Microsoft Teams has video call function.
5. Lack of face to face interaction.
No
Offline
84%
94%
Preference for mode of education Are you satisfied with level of interaction?
50 respondents 50 respondents
No
11%
No
44%
Yes
56%
Yes
89%
Are you satisfied with level of individual guidance? Did you experience increase in workload?
50 respondents 50 respondents
No
36%
Yes
46%
No
54%
Yes
64%
Was school curriculum flexible enough to choose Did school curriculum help develop necessary skills for
topics of interest as per future career? future career?
50 respondents 50 respondents
No
38%
No
43%
Yes
Yes 57%
62%
Is online education health concern for your child? Did you notice a marked increase in your child’s workload
60 respondents 60 respondents
Yes
16%
25
No. of parents
20
15
10
5
0
No
84%
How do you support your child’s online education? Upgraded internet to support online education?
60 respondents 60 respondents
No
5%
Yes
30%
Yes
95%
No
70%
Bought a new device to support online education? Is sufficient value education being provided to your child?
60 respondents (On a side note)
60 respondents
No
0%
Yes, but
optional
20%
Yes
80%
Do you feel service to society through hands on activities should be done as part of education post COVID?
(On a side note)
60 respondents
1. Schools are not closed, and teachers are not on a holiday. – Anonymous class 7th teacher
2. New batch of students have difficulty in adjusting with new faces. – Anonymous class 5th teacher
3. Teachers are working hard and making animated learning videos working double shifts. However, her teenage students don’t pay attention to her hard
work. Out of a class of 40, only 10-15 join which is very disheartening. – Priyanka Jha, teacher, Lovely public sr. sec. school, P.D. Vihar, Delhi
4. Teachers who are less tech savvy find it tough to adjust to e-learning as they are used to traditional classroom teaching. – Anonymous teacher
5. Students unmute their mics and make the class noisy. Teachers request them constantly to mute. Students use chat-box to chat with their classmates.
Female teachers are bullied by older students in Zoom classes through fake unregistered IDs.
6. “I have had a mother shouting at her child and calling her ‘stupid’ while the whole class was on Zoom. The child had tears in her eyes, and I had to call
the parent to tell her that she should maintain her child’s privacy and not embarrass her like that in front of her peers.” – Anonymous Class 8th teacher
7. Some students take classes lying on their beds. – Anonymous class 3rd teacher, Vael’s international school
1. What teachers want to tell children and parents about the new online classroom, The Times of India, by Kalpana Sharma, 28th April 2020
2. Online classes for kids, a task for parents, Hindustan Times, by Sadia Akhtar, 28th June 2020.
3. Peeping parents, sleeping students, bullying — online classes are a nightmare for teachers, The Print, by Kritika Sharma, 11th July 2020.
4. Forget online classes, teachers in rural Karnataka deliver education at students' doorsteps, The New Indian Express, by Ramkrishna Badseshi,
14th July 2020.
5. Even a pandemic cannot halt Indian parents’ obsession with getting their kids to study, Quartz India, by Manavi Kapur, 24th July 2020.