Attending virtual classes at the comfort of one’s living room saves many hours that could otherwise be used to commute forth and back to classes on campus.
Apart from the basic advantages and benefits of a virtual classroom, here are some ways to use a virtual classroom effectively.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world to stand still and it will affect the Indian Higher Education as well. Social distancing and severe lockdowns across the globe has forced people to find innovative ways to do their routine jobs. One of the first measures taken by the Indian government was to close the educational institutions for the safety of students, teachers, and their families.
It is time to applaud the governance for accepting the ground realities of inequitable access to online education and evolving a road map to negotiate this digital divide in the country. Kudos for envisaging a huge investment of Rs. 60K crores for providing nearly 40% of the total students in higher education institutions (HEIs) with […]
Digital Divide – Unanticipated lockdown across the country to curtail the COVID19 has affected all walks of life. The lockdown happening for the first time is yielding varying experiences to the citizen of the country. Along with different sectors, the higher education sector has also felt the dent due to the discontinuance of the teaching-learning […]
The National Digital Library of India has opened up its 3.5 crore-solid digital contents, for example, digital books, questions papers, and solutions, lecture materials, and thesis among others to assist students with learning at home.
Indian colleges and universities will be permitted to present to 40% of their coursework online, twofold the sum allowed now, as specialists endeavor to decrease scholastic misfortune as a result of the delayed effect of coronavirus on-campus education.
The number of foreign students coming to India’s Foreign Student Numbers for studies has surged by nearly 42 percent in less than a decade. However, the countries that send students to India have remained almost the same over the years,
The UGC (Open and Distance Learning Programmes and Online Degree Programmes) Regulations, 2020, were informed on Friday. It laid the framework for online degrees as well as distance learning programmes. On 6th September the higher education regulator University Grants Commission (UGC) released directives for online degree programmes. It laid the framework for online degrees as […]
Two years after the launch of the National Education Policy 2020, which proposed the setting up of a Higher Education Commission of India (HECI), the Centre is reworking a draft of the Bill that will bring to life the proposed regulatory body for college and university-level education, cutting across disciplines.
The Delhi University on Tuesday said that Naina Hasija will continue to serve as the officiating principal of Kalindi College till further notice, days after the college’s governing body decided to not give an extension to her. In a letter to governing body chairman Ravi Gupta, the assistant registrar of the university said that all […]