TORCHBEARERS OF INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION

With the lockdown measures enforced to bring the pandemic under control, Edtech was no longer a luxury but had turned into a necessity for the continuance of education dissemination. Confronted with the multiple challenges presented by the COVID 19 pandemic, rapid, smooth & seamless adoption of digital turned out to be the key for the survival of the education sector. The attention now fell on the pace of adoption & the ability to maintain consistency in quality

PANDEMIC UNDERLINING THE WORTH OF DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE

In the face of this upheaval, the academic institutions that had developed familiarity with the remote learning tools in the pre-pandemic period itself, found themselves with an edge over the others. Spearheading the list of the Indian Universities reaping the early movers advantage were, Galgotias University, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, BITS, Azim Premji University, the LNM Institute of Information Technology, Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Nirma University, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Symbiosis International.

Even before the COVID 19 pandemic brought the world to a standstill, multiple platforms had been mushrooming to facilitate