Economic and Social Impacts of Online Learning in Higher Education: Building Resilience
Published: 2021
Author(s) Name: Prashant Salwan |
Author(s) Affiliation: Professor of Strategy and International Business, Indian Institute of Management Indore, Indore, MP
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Abstract
India’s higher education (HE)
system is the world’s largest. Still,
Indian HE gross enrolment ratio
(GER) is only 26.3%, just above
the world average of 24%, and
far lower than in ot her Asian
countri es l i ke Chi na (51%),
South Korea (94%) and even in
Malaysia (45%) and Indonesia
(36%). COVID 19 and factors
like increasing HE fees, and contemporary
skill required by the
industries; the challenges facing
Indian HE institutes (HEI) are
enormous. Online education has
come as a blessing in disguise in
the current disruption scenario.
This article shows how the economic
and soci al be nef i ts of
online courses would help HEI in
dev el opi ng resi l i ence . I t al so
elaborates on how an HEI can get
online strategies right, through
faculty and student engagements
and taking care of security issues
and making ecosystem partners
like industries work together.
Keywords: N.A.
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