A simple solution for solving the scarcity of smartphones is self paced classes, instead of live classes. Self paced classes are those classes where the students can attend them at their own pace.
Currently, all colleges and schools are using video conferencing tools like Skype, Zoom, BigBlueButton, etc to conduct live classes.
Drawbacks of live classes:
1. Usually the timings of live classes match. Hence, Families with a single smart device but multiple school/college going children are affected. In such cases, many times, boys education is given preference over the girls education or elder sibling's education is taken more seriously.
2. Power cuts and network issues are another example of hurdles faced by children while accessing online education. Self paced classes can solve all of these issues.
Benefits of self paced classes:
1. Families with one smart device and multiple children can easily access online education.
2. Easy revision.
3. The recorded classes can be referred in the post COVID times too.
Self paced classes will be in the form of recorded lectures, it has to be hosted somewhere or distributed among students. How we can do it assuring that students who don't have proper internet connection or limited data can also easily access it?