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E-learning in Higher Education in India: Experiences and Challenges—An Exploratory Study

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The world community is committed to achieve 17 goals popularly known as United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) of which education has been given major thrust that has been earmarked in Goal 4. As a member country, India has also attempted to address the issues of education with highest priority that is envisaged by the responses of the government for drafting New Education Policy in 2019. The government is committed to achieve inclusive education that needs the manifestation of e-Learning platform. Since it is difficult to bring the elephantine population under the ambit of conventional education system, this paper has attempted to explore the experiences and challenges of e-Learning mechanism in the higher education system of India.

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Taso, K., Chakrabarty, A. (2020). E-learning in Higher Education in India: Experiences and Challenges—An Exploratory Study. In: Peng, SL., Son, L.H., Suseendran, G., Balaganesh, D. (eds) Intelligent Computing and Innovation on Data Science. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 118. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3284-9_77

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