Sustaining Learning Through Hybrid Pedagogy During Covid-19

Abstract

The COVID-19 Pandemic has created the largest disruption of education systems at all levels of learning. The crisis is exacerbating pre-existing education disparities by reducing the opportunities for many of the most vulnerable children, youth and adults those living in poor or rural areas girls, refugees, person with disabilities and forcibly displaced persons to continue their learning. In order to mitigate the potentially devastating consequences of COVID-19 Pandemic, Governments and Stakeholders immediately took some policy responses which include Flipped classroom, Blended learning, Video-conferencing, e-learning, vast use of Google and You tube platforms. And in Odisha as most of the schools belong to rural areas, it has become a new challenge for the Government as well as the educators to make e-learning accessible for all. This emerging shift to technology based learning divided Odisha into two parts; one is literate Odisha and another is illiterate Odisha. Number of schemes and policies are of no work as there are students for whom getting internet access is a dream. Hence there is a need to bridge this gap by limiting online duration of learning in a sustainable way. The paper highlights Hybrid Pedagogy accessible to all in this COVID-19 outbreak. This gives us an opportunity to refine existing classroom for post pandemic situations.