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Economic & Social Impacts of Online Learning in Higher Education: Building Resilience


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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.
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Prashant Salwan
Professor of Strategy and International Business, Indian Institute of Management Indore, Indore 453556, India

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.

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