Comparative Analysis of Innovative Tools and Technologies for Online Teaching-Learning Process

Most educational institutions around the world were temporarily closed to limit the spread of COVID-19. However, the teaching-learning process never stopped but was shifted to a new era of virtual and online teaching. This new era of teaching-learning includes various innovative teaching-learning tools and technologies which have filled the space created due to the absence of traditional teaching in this pandemic situation. Many technology-driven innovative teaching-learning solutions are proposed by various technology giants to provide support for all the activities of the teaching-learning process. The use of these innovative teaching-learning solutions is not serving as an alternative but can be considered as an add-on needed for the effective and better teaching-learning process. To facilitate meaningful insights about new teaching-learning solutions to the stakeholders, this paper covers a detailed comparative study of different online virtual meet platforms, various learning management systems and different online assessment tools. Primarily, the outcomes are based on cluster analysis over the data collected by surveys and interviews including a total of 687 teachers and students from various institutions across the state and outside.