Anish Kappil, Head of the Academics department and Associate Professor, IIGJ Jaipur<\/strong>, said, \u201cWhen a programme is designed, its objective is aligned with the teaching content and learning outcome. Gems and jewellery courses are primarily skill-oriented and involve hands-on practice, apart from theoretical learning. Online courses for the skill-based programmes are not as effective as compared to classroom experience, but yes we have minimized the educational loss of students with online teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some courses that can be taught online are Jewellery Design, CAD and Merchandising, Kappil elaborated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Navin Sadarangani, founder of NYUZ, <\/strong>that offers consultancy in retail sales and branding, conducted online training courses at IIGJ Delhi on technical aspects of diamond grading, cutting etc., merchandising, and visual merchandising among others. He noted, \u201cThere are three aspects of learning – Knowledge learning, skill learning and attitude learning. Knowledge can be taught online and even to an extent attitude can be learned through online channels. Skill is something that needs to be developed and it is vital to be trained at the work bench.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pankaj Verma, <\/strong>HoD, IIGJ Delhi firmly believes that classroom learning helps students and teachers know each other in a better manner and allows teachers to know the students and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses and guide students in their career possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The regular courses being offered by IIGJ Delhi are primarily practical courses with approximately 70% – 80% assessment depending on practical exams. Verma comments, \u201cThere are limitations in imparting training for core courses related to design, manufacturing and gemmology. However, we have developed a few courses which can be offered online and students can do a bridge course at the campus for further studies. Online is good for upskilling of the existing workforce in areas like retailing, photography, management, digital marketing, merchandising, visual merchandising, curation, content writing, personality development, etc. IIGJ Delhi has been able to enrol 108 students for its online courses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since March, IIGJ Jaipur continued its existing long-duration degree programmes with online teaching aligned with various semesters. During the lockdown, IIGJ Jaipur also introduced new short-duration online foundation programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cConsidering the current scenario, online teaching is the only way through which we are continuing with imparting education. Short-duration online courses are good promotional tools to convert students to enrolling for long-term courses. IIGJ Jaipur has promoted the online short programmes and generated enrolments, too,\u201d added Anish Kappil.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sanjoy Ghosh, head of IIGJ Mumbai, <\/strong>stated, \u201cThe main admission period for us starts from July to September. This year, the admission period will be delayed and see a likely drop of over 50% in number of admissions as compared to financial year 2019-20. Prospective students are likely to delay their jewellery education until such time the pandemic situation improves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n IIGJ Mumbai had to introduce online courses as the lockdown has severely affected admissions during the quarter ending 30th June. Admissions are down 83% during the first quarter of this year, compared to last financial year 2019-20. Online courses in Jewellery Design, CAD and Merchandising were started from 4th of April, 2020. A total of 49 students registered between April and June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOnline jewellery courses may not be as effective as one-on-one training in the classroom. Jewellery education and training is more about hands-on experience. Moreover, challenges are faced in terms of availability of stable and reasonably good quality internet speed and band width at the student’s end. Not all candidates have a laptop\/PC and other training equipment required for the courses. For example, with the closure of all stationery shops, students were unable to procure even basic pencil and paper.\u201d adds Sanjoy Ghosh, IIGJ Mumbai. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Commenting on the new opportunities that online courses have opened up, Pankaj Verma<\/strong> concluded, \u201cWe now plan to offer online courses regularly even after the lockdown is lifted. We have enrolled students from different parts of the country and even from different countries for our online courses. For that, we shall require new investment to build related new products and infrastructure in terms of online platforms, curriculum, presentation, gazettes, Wi-Fi connections, and tools to monitor responses, etc. All IIGJ centres must rise to the challenge collectively to achieve the objectives of standardization, alignment and minimizing the cost involved in building this platform for offering online courses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Covid-19 pandemic locked down the world temporarily, followed by partial lockdowns. But the world did not pause for long. Life had to go on, and everyone realised the power of staying in touch \u2013 but digitally. 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