Usage of the ‘Tools and Techniques’ in ‘Online Teaching and Learning’ becomes more productive & effective, when right pedagogy is chosen based on students’ Learning abilities and styles

Abstract

The paper is focused on to disclose the factors that actually make the usage of Tools and Techniques in ‘online teaching and learning’ to work for the best possible learning to happen.  The authors believe that only the right pedagogy (together with the right content) chosen based on Student’s learning abilities and styles, makes the learning better.  Thus it is to say that the student should get the choice of appropriate way to learn and the style that suits him/her better for better learning to happen; and it is the learning process that has to be more important, and the teacher’s involvement in the process should be only to the extent of facilitation, moderation and intervention to correct and clarify, where the students go wrong or land in confusion in learning to understand.  While the Tools and Techniques in Online Teaching & Learning are very essential, their quality gets expressed through catalyzing the learning process.  Towards this the teacher has to play the appropriate role as mentioned - the facilitator, moderator and intervener - and should not just be a deliverer of knowledge, which is only a role of content deliverer.  Such a delivery of knowledge-content through lecture, in most of the cases, is not received, absorbed, assimilated and adopted to attain the knowledge level, which enables analysis, application and evaluation in a contextual canvas, possible.  The discussions enabled in the paper, hence, are more directed on how to make the students get emotionally interested, intellectually involved, consistently focused in order to learn and understand to analyze, apply and evaluate, with the knowledge facets being focused upon, using his existing knowledge interacting,  so as to make the learning attain fruition.