Blended Learning in Indian Elementary Education: Problems and Prospects

Autor/in	Kundu, Arnab
Titel	Blended Learning in Indian Elementary Education: Problems and Prospects
Quelle	In: Journal of Online Learning Research, 4 (2018) 2, S.199-227 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2374-1473
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Blended Learning; Elementary Education; Educational Practices; Educational Assessment; Educational Indicators; Educational Development; Barriers; Educational Opportunities; Capacity Building; Educational Change; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Elementarunterricht; Bildungspraxis; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Bildungsentwicklung; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Bildungsreform; Indien
Abstract	Elementary education is vital for children as well as for society as a whole. It serves three major purposes in an individual's life. First, it provides a foundation for learning the core subjects. Second, it provides an understanding of the individual's environment and society. Third, it helps to foster an interest in duty and responsibility within the individual's own community through various activities. Elementary education is very important whether one is living in a developing country or a developed world. So it is the duty of every guardian and government to provide quality elementary education to every child. Blended learning is an innovative idea having immense potentiality to provide quality education to children. Unfortunately, the vast majority of blended learning research has focused on educational settings in North America and more attention is needed for its successful implementation in the developing countries like India where elementary education is suffering from so many problems in spite of the best efforts taken at various levels by the government. Using India as a setting, the objective of this essay is to define blended learning, outline the challenges in the Indian educational system, and suggest changes that need to be made for blended learning to gain the traction it needs to become a widely used and highly effective method of instruction in India. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01