Higher Education in India: Challenges and Opportunities of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Autor/inn/en	Gope, Prakash Chandra; Gope, Deepayan; Gope, Aditya
Titel	Higher Education in India: Challenges and Opportunities of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Quelle	In: Asian Journal of Distance Education, 16 (2021) 1, S.54-73 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gope, Prakash Chandra) ORCID (Gope, Deepayan) ORCID (Gope, Aditya)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1347-9008
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; COVID-19; Pandemics; School Closing; Distance Education; Educational Technology; Technology Uses in Education; School Schedules; Disease Control; Online Courses; Student Attitudes; Blended Learning; Conventional Instruction; Teaching Methods; Hygiene; Sanitation; Safety; Health Behavior; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Unterrichtsmedien; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Schulzeiteinteilung; Online course; Online-Kurs; Schülerverhalten; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Betriebshygiene; Sicherheit; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Indien
Abstract	The higher educational institutions and universities were forced to be shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic and came up with an alternative to resume the teaching-learning process via a digital mode of education. Due to many shortcomings in the digital mode of education, it is now necessary to reopen educational institutions. As students are important stakeholders, the views and suggestions are necessary before actually taking a decision on reopening the educational institutions. With objectives on reopening of educational institutions, modification in the course curriculum due to many problems faced by students during online teaching-learning process, health and safety protocols to be followed, etc, 21 questions are designed. Likert scale is used in data collections and analysed using various statistical tools. The students have different views on the reopening of the institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The practical or project-based course curriculum irrespective of offline or online mode of teaching is suggested by most of the students. On the health and safety protocols, the percentage of students giving priorities for creation of disinfection room, hand sanitization station entry and common places and regular health checkup are 74.82%, 80.69% and 74.48%, respectively. On the issue of the health and safety rule implementation, 92.4 % of students committed to pledge to adhere to the health and safety protocols, but 72.9% of students expressed that it would be difficult to enforce health and safety measures to the students inside the institution. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01