U ser- Friendliness of E- Learning Tools/Applications in Teaching Mathematics Online: A Study

Abstract

COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease of 2019) was slowly realised by the whole World during February/March 2020. As soon as the cases started increasing in India, the government circulated the order that all the schools and colleges should stop their physical classes till the situation is under control. At first, it was closed for a very few days but when the situation worsen and India realised that it is not going to end soon, then some schools and colleges started thinking about some alternative for education, and there it all started - The Online Teaching for all. It was very difficult to handle a big population of learners and teachers to make them deal with the online education. The factors involved in Online Education were - devices, internet and contacts (email ids/numbers of each other). Various schools and colleges started collecting the email-ids from all the learners and teachers. Also they tried to find out the best Tools/Applications that can be used by the teachers for teaching online, so that the tools/applications are easy to use for each and every subject teacher, as well as the best tool/application for learners, so that every student is able to access that particular tool/application. Many schools and colleges started taking classes online on Zoom/Cisco Webex initially as these were providing a lot of features which were very useful for online class, e.g. mute button (the host can mute the participants), chat box (for asking doubts), whiteboard facility (participants can also annotate along with the host with due permission), etc., then Microsoft Teams and Google Meet became popular, and then there were many more applications. All these applications have Video conferencing ability and white boards to doodle and many more features. And for other features like assessment, they were using many different tools/applications.