Abstract: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic made the educational sector revise its thinking and impose new ways and methods in carrying out its academic activities like all other sectors. The teaching-learning process must adapt to the digital age challenges in which the use of ICT Tools becomes dominant in use for teaching and learning. As the educational institutions across the globe reopen, students will be returning to classrooms for the traditional face-to-face teaching-learning process. This transition gave a unique opportunity for the educational institutions to think and consider ways to learn from the last year of remote learning, and look, potentially, to a new normal for teaching and learning. This paper deals with the trends of pandemic effects on education, its challenges towards the skilling of faculties, and how blended learning can be employed in the new normal.

Keywords: New normal, ICT Tools, Innovative teaching, Skilling challenge.

| DOI: 10.17148/IARJSET.2022.9731