Discuss Online Tools in Education During Covid19.

Write a paper on the following topic: The Impact of Using Online Tools in Education During Covid-19 Health officials are currently taking steps to prevent the spread of COVID19 pandemic into communities across the world. The use of online tools in education provides both students with the ability to exchange information, connect with learning groups and other educational systems that make education convenient. This provides students and institutions with multiple opportunities to improve learning methods. However, using online tools may not be always constructive. Students may use these tools to share homework assignments among other educational violations. Design and conduct a study to investigate the following: 1. What are the online tools are used by students and educators as an alternative in the US and the world? 2. How these online tools are used by students and educators? e.g., post assignments? Discussion? exchange homework solutions among students, course/instructor recommendation, etc. Identify all possible scenarios. The scenarios identified should not be only constructive. Include some misuse or abuse cases such as students using Chegg.com in assignments and quizzes. Classify the use cases to constructive and destructive and discuss why it is so? How these affect learning outcomes and student assessment and other aspects? 3. What others have done to address this issue? For example, any previous efforts to study the usability of online in education? Any previous efforts to prevent students from misusing or abusing online platforms in education? (last 3 years) 4. Design and conduct a survey to gauge what online tools are used in education and how? Classify your finings according to tools functionality (e.g., class meeting such as zoom, MS Teams, etc., Recorded Lecture Hosting such as Kaltura MediaSpace, etc.). Rank tools in each category according to percentage of users. How these tools can be used in violating student code of conduct? Did these violations increase due to pandemic? Did this affect quality of education? What methods can be used to limit educational violations by students using online educational tools? 5. Analyze the study results and come up with a list of recommendations for educators and students. IA680: Seminar in Information Assurance Spring 2021