Education system in a post Covid-19 era

Education system in a post Covid-19 era

If we carefully look around, we will find that every great product or service we use, was created with an intent to solve a problem. The problem might have been simple or may have been a complex one. From the invention of the wheel to the manufacturing of the car is a long journey that mankind has taken to solve the problem of getting from one place to another. There is an old saying that great people do not do different things, they just do things, differently. This proven theme is also true in today’s context.

All industries are seeing a paradigm shift towards a startup culture. New ways of working are being defined every day for manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, healthcare, and everything else. Whether you are a small business or a giant conglomerate, if you do not adapt to the waves of the ever-changing world, sooner or later you will not be relevant anymore. One such aspect that organizations have recently realized is that they need to be connected 24×7 to their customers, employees, and everybody else in the ecosystem. An easy way to do that is through a mobile device.

Today, almost everyone has access to a mobile. Some people even have multiple devices, one for personal and another for official purposes. The latest smartphones capture almost every aspect of one’s personal as well as professional life. To increase the cost-benefit ratio of owning a mobile, companies have been trying to bundle almost anything and everything as a mobile application. This can be correlated to the surge in the development and usage of mobile apps that can target customers based on usage, spend patterns, likes, dislikes, political inclination, geographical location, etc.

So, what goes into developing a mobile app?

Like any other project, coming up with “an idea” for a mobile app is the first thing. The focus needs to be on the ability of the mobile app to solve a problem for the target audience. Everything else can be planned around it. A similar need arose for the education system all over the world when schools, universities, and professional colleges had to be shut down to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. A lot of companies came up with online collaboration and video conferencing app. It allowed teachers to interact with their students without the need for them to be in proximity. But it is all hunky-dory or are there any shortcomings of these methods? There are several aspects of this type of interaction that still needs to be figured out. Things like ensuring all students are attentive and are able to comprehend the things being taught. Teachers must adjust and adapt to the new ways of communication and assessment of the capabilities of the students. For primary and middle school kids, it is a much bigger challenge. Before the restrictions, they were told not to watch TV or computer screen for a long duration.

Like any other project, coming up with “an idea” for a mobile app is the first thing. The focus needs to be on the ability of the mobile app to solve a problem for the target audience. Everything else can be planned around it. A similar need arose for the education system all over the world when schools, universities, and professional colleges had to be shut down to

stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. A lot of companies came up with online collaboration and video conferencing app. It allowed teachers to interact with their students without the need for them to be in proximity. But it is all hunky-dory or are there any shortcomings of these methods? There are several aspects of this type of interaction that still needs to be figured out.

Things like ensuring all students are attentive and are able to comprehend the things being taught. Teachers must adjust and adapt to the new ways of communication and assessment of the capabilities of the students. For primary and middle school kids, it is a much bigger challenge. Before the restrictions, they were told not to watch TV or computer screen for a long duration. But now, they are being asked to do so by their parents, and that is confusing them. Submitting online quizzes might have been fun in the beginning but it is losing its sheen with time. 

Surely, teenagers may be missing the camaraderie of classmates and mischief during breaks, but having virtual learning sessions is better than having no learning at all. Educational institutions still do need to figure out the larger issue of sharing content for learning, checking classwork, homework, and providing feedback to parents about the progress of their child. All these activities will require all the participants to interact with mobile applications which make these activities possible.

Cosmic Innovations Lab Inc. has built expertise in developing e-learning solutions for its customers and help them adapt to the platform and end-to-end solution. Features such as creating secure login, newsfeed with activities, searching for content, setting up notifications, editing, and submitting documents, are a few from the long list of functionalities that we have built for our clients.

Cosmic Innovations Lab Inc. is a mobile app development agency in Long Island specializing in delivering complex enterprise-level applications without compromising the user experience. We are a passionate team of in-house developers, mobile advisors and, designers in New York. We proudly boast of our process that involves meticulous and comprehensive planning, transparency, and reliability.