Development of a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) During the COVID -19 Pandemic: A Study with special reference to Advanced Technological Institute.

Abstract

In this Covid-19 pandemic, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays a major role, and the use of IT tools such as the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) has become vital. Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) integrates several tools that provide higher educational institutions in an effective and efficient method to manage, share, store, its academic resources and enhance their traditional way of teaching in pandemic situation. The implementation of VLE During the COVID -19 Pandemic has become a need at Advanced Technological institute in the learning and teaching environment. Although there is an increased willingness to its widespread implementation among higher educational institutes in this pandemic situation. The main objective of this research is to develop a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for Advanced Technological Institute during the COVID -19 Pandemic, as well as to identify the existing virtual learning environment status of other higher educational institutes and the benefits of implementing a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) at Advanced Technological Institute during the COVID -19 Pandemic. The conduct of this research involved qualitative method, the finding of the research presented that existing system used only for downloading the notes of lectures. As per the finding, virtual system developed using the following features such as conducing online examination, quizzes, discussion forum and automatic question generation using natural language processing to enhance the learning and teaching process. further the finding of this research helps to implement a virtual Learning system at Advanced Technological institutes in the pandemic situation to enhance the learning and teaching process. Adobe photoshop for image editing purpose, MySQL for creating database, Apache Web Server, WordPress, Google colab for prototype question generation and php for virtual environment development as well as Microsoft Visio for diagram drawing were utilized to develop this system development.