“Is Online Teaching–Learning Process an Effective Tool for Academic Advancement”

In modern times, especially in the current prevailing COVID-19 period, a system of studies came into the picture replacing the classroom learning with online classes. Although there are many challenges which the teachers and learners are facing during their online process of interaction, it has become the need of the hour. There may be various questions related to the online methods of teaching and learning such as the quality of online teaching, problems of students, the question of recognition, health issues, Internet connection, professional space, and still, its popularity is incredible. The online work environment now involves using communicative teaching tools and different software to interact with the learners as required. Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Olympus, Zoom, and many more names are enlisted in the category of online assistance tools for academic advancement in the teaching–learning process. In the online mode of teaching, the teachers may choose their own schedules and timings, but is this flexibility adds to learning, or is it only a facility? Moreover, salaries for online instructors or teachers solely depend on the organization for which they are teaching, and it hardly matters what is their qualification and experience. It may be said that online teaching–learning provides a golden opportunity to meet people across the world while staying at home and it may be a rich experience for them to learn new things about the culture of other learners. They can share their way of life including their foods, clothes, behavior, etc., contributing to the mutual understanding and building global bridges: they can have a wonderful experience of all kinds of lifestyles.