Location of panelists of DFOT - India and USA

Welcome to Discussion Forum for Online Teaching (DFOT), a support group for all College and University level teachers in India. As we all know, there had been a tremendous push to online teaching in the country (as elsewhere in the world) during the COVID-19 lock-down. However, many of us (teachers) have  not adapted to the landscape of online teaching all that well. Furthermore, the digital divide is having a substantial impact on education in the country.  

DFOT aims to start a conversation among us to get an idea of how each of us is addressing these myriad problems, of the digital divide, of the heterogenous response across the board, of the inadequate preparation on both the parts of the students as well as us teachers, as well as several other issues.

Some of the purposes this initiative hopes to serve are the following:

1) Create a network of teachers at all levels, across the country,  to find collective solutions to common problems regarding online teaching..

2) To collectively create a repository of resources that are essential for online teaching.

3) To facilitate discussions among teachers to bring forth the problems regarding online teaching  and find their solutions. These discussions will be both on the web based discussion forum and as webinars of panel discussions.