Dear valued readers,

Welcome to this April issue of NELTA ELT Forum!

Crisis, lockdown and social distancing have been the new normal across the globe due to the coronavirus pandemic. We are not sure how long this will continue. While academic institutions in Nepal and in other parts of the world are shut down physically, they have embraced remote teaching to continue their academic activities. The pandemic has spared none of us and has impacted us in different ways. Nonetheless, we have been able to bring out the new issue of NELTA ELT Forum. We hope that this issue, which has been published after a long silence, will be helpful for many of you who are searching some contents to read during this time when many of you are getting engaged virtually in a teaching and learning process. Since we have also published this in the beginning of Nepali New year, we would like to wish our Nepali readers a happy Nepali new year 2077.

We would like to apologize to our readers that we could not bring issues regularly owing to several reasons, which we do not think worth discussions here. This new issue will be the final issue from the current editorial committee of NELTA ELT Forum. In this sense, this issue is also a special issue for us. The next issue will be brought to you by a soon-to-be-formed new ELT Forum editorial committee. At this point, we would like to take the opportunity to thank NELTA for the warm support it rendered regularly to the editorial committee to run ezine.  We would like to thank Hemanta Raj Dahal, the founding patron of NELTA ELT Forum, Meera Shrestha, the immediate past-president of NELTA and Motikala Subba Dewan, the current president of NELTA. Similarly, we would also like to thank the past NELTA ELT Forum committees who worked tirelessly to establish and run several issues of NELTA ELT Forum before our tenure. Thanks also goes to NELTA present and past committees, entire NELTA members, staffs and our valued readers from home and abroad who supported us tremendously. The authors who contributed to our forum deserve our sincere gratitude. Without them, this forum would not have gained any meaning at all. At the time of publishing this issue, our total views stands at  93,345 from 165 plus countries. This shows how widely we are read and how we became successful to reach out to the global community.

As regards this issue, it does not comprise any research-based article; nevertheless, we hope that the writings published here will be informative for our readers. The first article by Dr Suman Laudari provides some general advice to enhance remote teaching. A suitable article to the present context, it will help teachers and academics who are confused and unsure of how they can do teaching and learning remotely. The second opinion-based article by Sagun Shrestha presents how online classes can cope with the impact of the crisis situation in academic institutions. It is a very timely opinion-based article which can provide some ideas related to running classes online in this global pandemic. The third article by Mandira Adhikari presents the narrative of one of the academic managers from Juriel Rural Municipality at Doti who played a pivotal role for the transformation of her institution. We hope that this narrative can help the current and would-be academic managers gain some insights to run academic institutions successfully.

The fourth article by Gopal Prasad Bashyal presents qualities of a good teacher trainer on the basis of his own experience. He claims that every teacher educator needs to know the content of the delivery and the audience he/she is addressing to which determines the choice of the process in a teacher education programme.

For the ease of the readers, we have hyperlinked each article below:

1. Strategies to enhance remote teaching by Suman Laudari
2. Online Classes in Nepal: Can they manage the impact of crisis situation in academic institutions? by Sagun Shrestha
3. Challenging the challenges: Public school’s move for a change by Mandira Adhikari
4. Shifting paradigm of training: content and process options by Gopal Prasad Bashyal

Finally, we would like to state that we are very much looking forward to reading the new issue brought up by a new editorial committee. We would also like to wish a soon-to-be-formed new editorial committee all the best for their successful tenure.

Issue Editors,

Sagun Shrestha and Dr. Suman Laudari

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The entire NELTA ELT Forum Editorial Team