Technological revolution in the educational sector – A post Covid scenario

Technology plays an essential role to deliver education to the students. It plays a vital role in today’s digital economy. In educational sector Information Communication Technology (ICT) provides a platform for distance learning, online learning and certification to enhance additional and intense knowledge. It can shape the educational policies and bring educational revolution. “With the spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), 180+ countries mandated temporary school closures, leaving 1.6 billion children and youth out of school at its height and affected approximately 85% of children world-wide (world bank)”. Education was made to reassess in this new Covid environment to make online teaching easier. The education institutions were made to follow the guidelines and recommendations by government agencies, while keeping students encouraged to continue learning remotely during this tough environment. Children and students have had to dependent on their own resources through the Internet, television or radio. This new weapon of Teaching-Learning refers to the technology that are used to communicate, store, generate, share, exchange valuable knowledge and skills around computing and communications devices. Hence the current paper attempts investigate the technological achievements and advancement in the educational sector after the Covid period. Primary data for about 300 samples from School and college children, teachers and parents are collected.  Also, secondary data regarding technological advancement is collected from magazines and other published books, simple ratio, percentage method and data visualization technique is used to verify the above objective. The result vividly reveals that the technological advancement was a revolution in the post covid situation.