Alka Agnihotri

Pandemic has brought all together a new environment of working and compelled all the off line educational institutions to become online educational platforms and strengthen their online resources. We need to understand online platforms as universities, institutes, schools, colleges or any educational institute which are working online and providing degrees, certificates, diplomas for several courses and programs. In different researches related to online education and Covid -19, investigations addressed student’s perspective or teachers perspective. Literature review has showed the gap in exploring the turnaround strategies inspired by the parent’s perspective for online education especially with respect to young children (Age group 8 to 12 years). Apart from literature review and analysis of secondary data from websites and search engines, qualitative research was undertaken to know about parent’s views in general about the online platforms and particularly about WHJ (White Hat Junior). The focused group discussion and the indepth interviews revealed very useful information with regard to Online educational platforms and especially WHJ in relation to Covid -19 times. Findings relate to awareness, acceptability, perception change, costs, safety issues, etc. It has brought out elaborately in this case based research, how parents expectation may impact the turnaround strategies of their wards’ online educational platforms. In different researches related to online education and Covid -19, investigations addressed student’s perspective or teacher’s perspective.