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and lesson plans online. With this and technology are motivating higher
alternative, students can develop their education faculty (university and college)
technological skills as well as improve to rethink pedagogy and teaching
their teaching skills and communication methods. The increased emphasis
with their lectures or other students in on applying knowledge to meet the
the classroom or outside of the class. The demands of 21st century society, such
integration of ICTs provides countless as developing and using skills like critical
opportunities and possibilities for thinking, independent learning and the
learners in both higher education and use of relevant information technology
general education. ICTs are significant requires active learning in rich and
tools for empowering knowledge and complex environments, with plenty of
information; therefore, there is a strong opportunities to develop, apply, assess
need for policymakers and teachers to and practice such skills. This enables
be aware of how technologies interact students to learn after graduation
and work to use them effectively. and educate them with the skills to
manage their own learning throughout
The COVID-19 crisis has raised salient
questions about the necessity, life, so they can continue to learn after
importance and usefulness of graduation.
certain curriculum content. It has According to Sclater (2012), education is
highlighted the relevance of certain also the process of facilitating learning,
trends, particularly the authenticity or the acquisition of knowledge, skills,
of learning situations. This requires values, beliefs, and habits. There are
varied, flexible and authentic learning many methods in education to get
activities. In this regard, the authentic knowledge including storytelling,
learning experiences resulting from discussion, teaching, training, and direct
the COVID-19 lockdown could be research. This pandemic has mandated
used to contextualize student realities yet another method of teaching learning
during the pandemic. This represents restricted only to online learning
an opportunity to rethink curricular even though online teaching learning
content and approaches. happened earlier in a meagre way in
the form of video conferencing and tele-
Need for Revisiting the Pedagogy in teaching.
Present Context
With the recent developments in
Pedagogy of the twenty-first century information and communication
cannot be equated with the pedagogy technologies (ICTs), there is a significant
of the twentieth century. The social change in our daily life. Eventually,
behaviour of people gets highly integrating ICTs into teaching and
influenced by digital technologies as learning offers significant potential
they influence the way people think, for higher education institutions and
communicate and channelize their new challenges for educators, through
influence on other people. their capacity to facilitate new kinds
of education in digital environments.
Changes in society, student expectations,
Online Learning becomes more effective

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