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PRAGYATA: Guidelines issued for online classes
The Ministry of Human Resource Development on Tuesday announced guidelines for online classes by schools. It also recommended a cap on duration and the number of sessions in a day for students
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In the guidelines called ‘Pragyata,’ the MHRD has recommended that the duration for online classes for pre-primary students should not be for more than 30 minutes They also outline suggestions for administrators, school heads, teachers, parents, and students in the following areas:
- Need for assessmentÂ
- Concerns while planning online and digital education like duration
- Screen time, inclusiveness, balanced online and offline activitiesÂ
- Modalities of intervention including resource curation, level-wise deliveryÂ
- Physical, mental health, and wellbeing during digital education
- Cyber safety and ethical practices including precautions and measures for maintaining such safety
- Collaboration and convergence with various initiatives
- For Classes 1 to 8, the HRD Ministry has recommended two online sessions of up to 45 minutes each while for Classes 9 to 12, four sessions of 30-45 minutes duration have been recommended
- The pandemic has impacted over 240 million children enrolled in schools. Extended school closures may cause loss of learning
- The guidelines have been developed from the perspective of learners, with a focus on online, blended, digital education for students who are presently at home due to the lockdownÂ
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