Pakistan schools across Oman using e-learning

Muscat: Due to the outbreak of the global pandemic, coronavirus (COVID-19), forcing the schools to close, Pakistan schools across Oman have taken up e-learning while broadening the horizons of their students.
Talking to the Times of Oman in an exclusive interview, Shahid Iqbal, Principal of Pakistan School Seeb and in-charge of distance-learning across all Pakistan Schools in Oman, said that the management took the necessary measures by adopting distance-learning to ensure the learning and growth of their students across all seven branches.
“The closure of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic is causing unprecedented challenges for everyone involved, from students to their teachers and their parents. This closure has resulted in schools needing to adapt very quickly to a whole new model of teaching, ie, distance learning.
“In response to this lockdown, the school management has shifted the traditional mode of learning to digital learning. The most common activities cited in addition to online lectures are Google Classrooms, Direct Messaging, e-mailing students/parents, and creating resources for distance learning,” Iqbal said.
He added that all seven schools' management are working on a variety of migratory strategies that can be put in place to lessen the impact of closures on students.
“The time that is spent away from school by the students results in a widening of attainment gap, with research depicting that struggling students start to lag even further during extended breaks from the institutions. To lessen this gap, all seven branches are trying hard to provide all the possible assistance so that students can utilize their time studying at home in a different environment of online/distance learning altogether,” the Principal said.
He also pointed out that the efforts created by the government to secure the well-being of pupils during the closure have been noteworthy and promising.
“To reduce the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on academics, and to secure the future of the current generation, we must put efforts collectively to handle this unprecedented challenge," Iqbal added.