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increasing satisfaction and decreasing Development, Government of India,
stress (Codone, 2001; Algahtani, promotes online and digital education.
2011; Klein and Ware, 2003). E-learner It advocates use of online courses/
can harvest these benefits only with modules, digital repositories, TV
proper infrastructure and right degree channels, etc. for expanding open and
of technological knowhow, judicious distance learning as well for increasing
time management, self-discipline, high GER in higher education. Apart from the
intrinsic motivational level, overcoming initiatives from the government, there is
a sense of isolation through discussion a need to fill the present gaps in the role
forums, chats, messages, and finally of the three main stakeholders–teachers
accepting the entire demand of the (T), institutions of higher education (I)
system with an open mindset. and learners (L). The study envisages
Institution support to both T and L for
Conclusion effective e-learning, which is only at an
initial stage in India and has a very long
It is anticipated that the number of
students in a classroom post COVID-19, way to go to touch the satisfaction level
especially at the initial part of the and to compete globally. The survey
reopening of the higher institutes, carried out reflects that irrespective of
will be low due to the requirement hurdles faced by the students, most of
of maintaining physical distance. them see the hybrid model becoming
So, emergency operated remote the future trend. In fact, more targeted
learning mode will dominate the surveys will help in understanding
education sector. Teachers will have different aspects of online education
to be prepared for teaching modules/ and the need and resources available to
sessions in both synchronous and learners in our country. If, the proposed
asynchronous styles. Apart from live features of the three stakeholders can
online lectures through zoom/google/ be asserted along with government's
skype and offline content delivery via supporting policies, the authors believe
videotaped classes, online education in that e-learning will play a pivotal role in
India is being conducted through radio shaping India's future
and television also. When electricity and (Acknowledgements: Special thanks to
network issues are major challenges Preshtha Gupta for normalizing the
for virtual learning, these are still the responses obtained from the survey.
most powerful communication tools Authors are grateful to Dr. R.K. Gupta
available to poor and underprivileged (Principal, Ram Lal Anand College, Delhi
(Rajagopalan, 2020). Encouragingly, University) for his encouragement in
NEP 2020 launched on 29 July, 2020 conducting this study and for his critical
by the Ministry of Human Resource acumen of the manuscript.)

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