APPLICATION OF VIRTUAL AND E-LEARNING IN THE POST CORONA PANDEMIC ERA — CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS — A CASE STUDY OF INDIA

The catastrophe and the disruptions of the health shock in the form of Corona pandemic has really shaken the entire world and has confronted it with multiple challenges, the biggest obviously being life vs. livelihood. It is gradually transforming the world towards a new global order. Lockdown, social distancing and containment measures in various forms are announced all over the world to save life and combat covid-19 from spreading. However, it has also re-emphasized the need for the use of digital learning and online platform as the future in the education sector, as WHO has already sent a word of caution that in future we are probably going to have corona-free world. They had already recommended mobilization of different forms of online education and education resources. So what is needed is to make use of existing online distance learning platforms, develop new platform, partner with private
educational platform and also collaborate internationally to use online educational resources. But there are various constraints in this change over to digital platform. Not only there are problems of developing proper infrastructure, but also there needs to be a change in the motivation of the teachers as well as the student community. Government Policy initiatives and implementation also play a pivotal role in this regard. Moreover, in this form of platform adequate IT and cyber security measures are also very important. Government of India, at various times, took separate measures to digitize India, but what is needed is a comprehensive master plan to implement it in actual practice and reap the demographic dividend.

此次冠肺炎疫情引发的全球性灾难及其造成的种种冲击，实际上撼动了整个世界，并向其提出了多重挑战，其中最显著无疑是生命与生计之间的抉择。这场疫情正逐步将世界推向一个新的全球秩序。为挽救生命并遏制新冠病毒的传播，世界各地纷纷宣布实施封锁、社交距离和多种形式的隔离措施。然而，这也再次强调了在教育领域利用数字学习和在线平台作为未来的必要性，世界卫生组织已发出警告，未来我们可能会迎来一个无冠肺炎的世界。他们已经建议动员各种形式的在线教育和教育资源。因此，所需的不仅是利用现有的在线远程学习平台，开发新的平台，与私人教育平台建立合作关系，以及在国际上协作利用在线教育资源。但这一转型至数字平台的过程中存在着诸多限制。这不仅涉及构建适当基础设施的问题，还需要教师群体以及学生社区的动机发生改变。政府在政策倡议和实施方面也发挥着至关重要的作用。此外，在这种平台形式下，充分的IT和网络安全措施同样至关重要。印度政府在不同时期采取了单独的措施以实现印度的数字化，但所需的乃是一个综合性的总体规划，以便在实际操作中实施并收获人口红利。