Changes in Content of Online Teaching in pre and during COVID-19 Era: A Comparative Analysis in Private School Setup in India

Abstract

The process of teaching and learning through online or virtual mode has been gradually becoming an important part of the Indian
education sector. Teachers and students in higher education have already been effectively using online education mode to optimize the learning
process. Schools, too, have been using educational technologies in many ways at all levels and across all grades. But with the unexpected
worldwide spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the year 2020, a sudden exponential boom has come in the online teaching set up. Until now,
online teaching was assumed to be an aid to the teaching-learning transactions and was immediately adopted as the only way out, to continue
with the pedagogical process in schools and colleges.
This research attempts to make a comparative analysis of the changes in various aspects of online teaching before and during the COVID-19
era, including content development and delivery and type of information shared with students in private schools of NCR of India. Data collected
by the investigator from school teachers about their usage of online methodologies from 2017 will be compared with school teachers’ data in
August 2020, and its educational implications will be discussed.