Almost 70% students happy with digital classes during COVID, Maths most difficult to learn online: Education Ministry's survey | Education - EdexLive

Pokhriyal added that these guidelines emphasise upon the community working closely with the school to get learning materials such as workbooks, worksheets, etc. delivered at the doorsteps of children.

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About 60 to 70 per cent students, teachers, parents and school principals from across India have said that the online mode of teaching and learning during COVID-19 period was joyful and satisfactory, according to a survey by the Ministry of Education. While 20-30 per cent said they had a difficult experience and 10-20% said that it was burdensome for them, in the survey undertaken by the NCERT on the accessibility of digital resources in schools to formulate the Students’ Learning Enhancement Guidelines.

A majority of them also pointed out that Mathematics as a subject was difficult to learn via the online medium. This is because Mathematics contains a number of concepts which require interaction, continuous support, monitoring from the teacher and these aspects were lacking in the online mode of teaching. Following this, Science was identified as the subject of concern since it contains several concepts and practical experiments which could only be done in the laboratory under the supervision of the teacher. Around 17 per cent of students also identified languages as being a difficult subject to learn through online medium...

Pokhriyal highlighted that these guidelines will help children, who do not have digital resources to get learning opportunities at home with their teachers or volunteers. "Apart from this, it will also help in our efforts to overcome the learning deficiencies of all those students who are learning at home through various alternative ways ie, using Radio, TV, smartphones, etc," he added.
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