Coronavirus has changed lives of many people. It has also changed the way we live.
As schools and colleges are shut to curb the spread of the pandemic, online classes are being considered by many to ensure education gets being imparted.
In an interesting move, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai becomes India’s first major educational institution to scrap all face-to-face lectures for the rest of 2020.
“The COVID Pandemic has made us at IIT Bombay rethink the way we impart education to our students. To ensure that our students begin the academic year without further delay, we are planning on extensive online classes details of which will be informed to all students in due course of time,” shared the director Subhasis Chaudhuri in a Facebook post.
“We do not want a single student to miss out the learning experience for the lack of money. We have estimated that we need about Rs 5 crores to help those needy students. Our alumni have committed a good amount of support, but that is not enough for all these needy students and I solicit through this message your donations, however small it may be,” Chaudhuri wrote in his Facebook post.
The idea is to make sure that students continue their education without losing out their academic year but are also safe during the learning process.
Other IITs are also likely to follow with similar moves on conducting online lectures for the autumn semester.
by Sahana Iyer
