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The Vice President stressed that taking measures to promote digital learning is important to ensure that there is no digital divide.

Digital divide:

It is a term that refers to the gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communications technology (ICT), and those that don’t or have restricted access.

How digital learning helps reduce the digital divide in education?

• Digital learning has enabled Indian institutes to further improve their portfolio of higher education internationally.
• Further, increasing digital education in India is also helping the government to improve accessibility in rural areas.
• It also imparts quality education to students in small towns and villages.
• Rising adoption of digital learning in India is also attracting global key players to offer online courses to students and extend opportunities to learn new skills.

Recommendations:

• Corrective action is needed to upgrade the skills of teachers in e-learning.
• Ensure increased access to the internet especially in rural areas and remote places and to ‘keep inclusivity at the heart of the educational experience’.
• Institutes should focus on developing a constructive and positive attitude among the students.
• Teachers should adopt innovative strategies to address important national and global challenges and opportunities in an intellectually vibrant, collaborative environment.
• Emphasis should be on promoting and preserving Indian languages.
• Teachers should impart an ‘experiential learning’ methodology that helps in promoting creativity and innovative outcomes.