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.以新冠大流行（Corona pandemic）为代表的健康冲击所引发的灾难与社会失序，着实撼动了整个世界，令全球面临诸多挑战，其中最核心的矛盾无疑是生命存续与生计保障之间的艰难抉择。这场危机正逐步推动世界迈向全新的全球秩序。全球各地纷纷推出封城、社交距离管控及各类形式的防疫举措，以挽救生命、遏制新冠病毒（COVID-19）的传播。然而，这场疫情也再度凸显了将数字化学习与在线平台作为教育领域未来发展方向的必要性——世界卫生组织（WHO）早已发出警示：未来人类或将步入无新冠的世界。该组织此前便已倡议调动各类形式的在线教育资源与教学模式。因此，当下亟需开展的工作包括：充分利用现有的在线远程学习平台，开发新型在线平台，与私营教育平台达成合作，并开展国际协作以共享在线教育资源。但向数字化平台转型的过程中仍存在诸多制约因素：不仅面临基础设施建设不完善的难题，同时也需要扭转教师与学生群体对在线学习的动力认知。政府的政策倡议与落地执行在此过程中也发挥着关键作用。此外，这类在线平台的合规IT建设与网络安全防护措施同样至关重要。印度政府曾多次推出各项推动国家数字化转型的举措，但当下亟需制定一套全面的总体规划，以将数字化转型落到实处，并充分释放人口红利。