The whole educational system from elementary to tertiary level has been collapsed during the lockdown period of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) not only in India but across the globe. This study is a portrayal of online teaching-learning modes adopted by the Mizoram University for the teaching-learning process and subsequent semester examinations. It looks forward to an intellectually enriched opportunity for further future academic decision-making during any adversity. The intended purpose of this paper seeks to address the required essentialities of online teaching-learning in education amid the COVID-19 pandemic and how can existing resources of educational institutions effectively transform formal education into online education with the help of virtual classes and other pivotal online tools in this continually shifting educational landscape. The paper employs both quantitative and qualitative approach to study the perceptions of teachers and students on online teaching-learning modes and also highlighted the implementation process of online teaching-learning modes. The value of this paper is to draw a holistic picture of ongoing online teaching-learning activities during the lockdown period including establishing the linkage between change management process and online teaching-learning process in education system amid the COVID-19 outbreak so as to overcome the persisting academic disturbance and consequently ensure the resumption of educational activities and discourses as a normal course of procedure in the education system.

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<span>The significance of peace education is universally recognized for a safe and prospering future for the world at school level as peace education aims at equipping the future citizens with necessary knowledge, attitude and skills so that they would acknowledge and respect all kinds of diversity and understand human dignity. This paper is based on an empirical research aiming how far guiding principles and practices of peace education followed in secondary schools of Mizoram. The concept of peace education, guiding principles of peace education and practices on peace-related activities being followed in the secondary schools of Mizoram were explored. The study revealed that peace education was not being taught as a separate subject. Peace education component was infused in the existing curriculum and also was being taught through co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. Besides, teachers must reflect in their behavior all the guiding principles of peace. They should encourage the students for critical thinking, reasoning, develop awareness on societal problems and issues, broaden their outlook, concentrate on studies, and to be associated with various activities. In Mizoram, students’ unions and church organizations used to play a prominent role in shaping and moulding the character of the people starting from the early stage of life which ultimately benefits the society and the nation. However, in the context of rapid change in social structure and modernization process, there is need for inculcating the values of peace for which schools have to play important role</span><span lang="IN">.</span>

International audience—In this paper, we propose a layered LDPC decoder architecture targeting flexibility, high-throughput, low cost, and efficient use of the hardware resources. The proposed architecture provides full design time flexibility, i.e., it can accommodate any Quasi-Cyclic (QC) LDPC code, and also allows redefining a number of parameters of the QC-LDPC code at the run time. The main novelty of the paper consists of: (1) a new low-cost processing unit that merges in an efficient way the logical functionalities of the Variable-Node Unit (VNU) and the A Posteriori Log-Likelihood Ratio (AP-LLR) unit, (2) a high speed, low-cost Check-Node Unit (CNU) architecture, which is executed twice in order to complete the computation of the check-node messages at each iteration, (3) a splitting of the iteration processing in two perfectly symmetric stages, executed in two consecutive clock cycles, each one using exactly the same processing resources; the processing load is perfectly balanced between the two clock cycles, thus yielding an optimal clock frequency. Synthesis results targeting a 65nm CMOS technology for a (3, 6)-regular (648, 1296) Quasi-Cyclic LDPC code and for the WiMax (1152, 2304) irregular QC-LDPC code show significant improvements in terms of area and throughput compared to the baseline architecture discussed in this paper, as well as several state of the art implementations