Sethi, Surbhi  and Singh, Manju  <br/><br/>
Digital disruption in Indian higher education: The new face of education to deal with covid-19  

 - University News  
 - 59(47), Nov, 29 Dec, 5, 2021: p.21-26 
<br/><br/> The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown as a fallout of that has created an unprecedented situation for the entire world. In India, the lockdown has affected the economy in general and also created myriad challenges for the higher education institutions. For those working in an educational setting, the immediate impact of COVID-19 has been the imposed shutting down of schools, colleges and universities. In this situation of corona virus outbreak, several institutions have observed a huge disruptive shift towards online education in a matter of days. This unprecedented transition from conventional inperson education to online education has established a significant capacity for flexibility in higher education (Piedra, N., et al., 2017). However, at the same, much online education is currently delivered in its most basic forms, replicating more traditional forms of learning on-campus. The teaching has altered with great speed and rush into online spaces in many instances. For many educators, this has been an unaccustomed, disorienting, and even an uncalled experience (Watermeyer, R., et al., 2020), as the following discussion illuminates. There has been no time to rethink the pedagogy, develop quality teaching material for online delivery, and train educators to deliver online. This shift has not been smooth due to the constraints around the availability of digital content, technology, lack of experience, and delivery capabilities. Even then, this forced experience is good in India as this model use complete tech mediated teaching-learning and is extremely scalable for greater accessibility to quality education. Though, implications of this forced radical shift are essential to identify. – Reproduced