The Impact of Distance Learning on STEM Education

The coronavirus epidemic has profoundly affected every industry, including education. Universities, colleges, and elementary and secondary schools moved fast to develop online curricula for their pupils.

FREMONT, CA: Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, education has changed dramatically. Teachers were required to swiftly acquire the skills necessary to teach online and finally found their groove in the distance learning through tools, grants, and trial and error. Consider some trends in STEM education that arose during the epidemic and will likely continue into 2021 and beyond.

STEM educators will continue to use eLearning video services after the coronavirus pandemic

Since many schools continue to operate online, video services such as YouTube, Netflix, TED-Ed, etc., are being used more than ever—and they are unlikely to disappear anytime soon. eLearning is critical for STEM education because it ensures that students receive the most up-to-date knowledge possible.

Many teachers have included video into their virtual classrooms after a year of teaching online or in a hybrid format. STEM teachers will continue to use educational video courses and content in their curricula in 2021 and beyond to facilitate self-paced, visual learning. With this increased demand for internet movies in the classroom, more companies will likely make videos for this purpose.

Social media will be included in STEM educators' courses

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram enable online contact and information sharing among STEM educators. Social media education is also a pleasurable method to learn! Teachers can integrate social media sites into their curriculum using various tools.

Several examples of ways to include social media into STEM education are as follows:

• Utilizing Facebook Groups to broadcast live lectures and a Facebook Page to keep students informed about class activities.

• Creating discussion boards on Twitter with threaded discussions, tweet assignments, and more.

• Creating photo essays, sharing student work, and interacting with others via Instagram.

• Creating class-specific boards on Pinterest.

STEM educators will increase their classroom use of artificial intelligence (AI).

AI has had a significant impact on virtually every industry in the last few years. Recently, schools have embraced the trend and integrated AI into their curricula.

This is how AI is applied in education:

Streamlining administrative activities: AI can help teachers automate administrative tasks. Rather than marking tests and homework, educators may automate the process with technology. , teachers and academic institutions can thus devote more time to teaching than to administrative tasks and grading.

Individualized instruction: Each learner is unique and learns uniquely. As a result of a unified curriculum, some pupils fall behind or do not realize their full potential. AI transforms education into a highly individualized experience.

Tutoring: Through artificial intelligence, students can obtain additional assistance from educational assistants. These "Intelligent Tutoring Systems" consider students' learning patterns and experiences to provide them with customized instruction and feedback.

Finally, AI now enables university students to evaluate their lecturers more effectively. Hubert, for instance, enables students to provide comments on both the class and the lecturer. After completing the questionnaire, it organizes the responses and data and returns them to the professor. Because Hubert is akin to communicating with a human, the quality of feedback is higher than with more traditional types of feedback. As a result, you'll be able to elicit more information from kids.