GETTING MEDIA SAVVY

No.1 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MASS COMMUNICATION NEW DELHI

GURUSPEAK
“The pandemic made us look beyond classrooms and examinations”
—PROFESSOR SANJAY DWIVEDI Director General, Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi

"Some teachers had difficulty in transitioning to online learning, but the students were naturals—after all, they were born in the digital era"

This was a year of great learning. In many ways, it changed our perspectives about education, communication, and life in general. The lock-downs and restrictions imposed on our movements because of the pandemic, in fact, enabled us to explore our untapped potential. It helped us to break free from the conventional thought process. This is what has been the legacy of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC)—to set the trend. Of course, like all educational institutes, we also shifted to digital mode of learning almost overnight. Our first major challenge was to conduct the entrance examination as we had to postpone it when Covid-19 first hit the country last year. As most of the