Attendance and attention monitoring - a perspective in digital pedagogy

Abstract

Technology has played an integral role in the field of education. Its prominence and efficacy have proved to be a great boon for the people in this New Normal after the severe outbreak of COVID-19. Although the entire world is confined among the four walls, it is the technology that contributed a lot by enabling the conduction of online classes through different Learning Management Systems and multidimensional efforts of student-teacher fraternity. Earlier the Distance Learning was prevalent but was not given much importance owing to own limitations. This period of emergency has identified and highlighted the need and immense contribution of technology in digital pedagogy through online mode. In this paper we have surveyed various ways, where technology has played a gigantic role in the field of education. Various techniques for monitoring the attendance of the learners are also explored. Identifying several problems and related drawbacks of the digital transformation in the pedagogical approach, we have proposed some dynamic systems that can resolve certain issues efficiently and effectively. Solutions to mitigate the problems of attendance and to prevent the lack of attention/concentration of the students during the conduction of the online classes are presented.

An Overview of Attendance and Participation in Online Class During the COVID Pandemic: A Case Study

“…One of the significant challenges in online learning during the covid-19 lockdown is monitoring students' attendance and engagement during online classes. It is essential to highlight that attending the class and interacting to learn the course material are two different issues, as stated in [22], which focused on the attention and attendance problems faced during online classes. The results showed that nearly 62% of students lose interest in the class.…”