ONLINE ENGINEERING DEGREES A REALITY AND MAY BE A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
(https://tinyurl.com/9rahwebr)
http://www.sunilpandeyiitd.org/2019/05/online-engineering-degrees-should-it-be.html
Is
it the right time and the best opportunity for introducing the 'ONLINE
ENGINEERING DEGREE' programmes in the country? The advantages could be:
1.
Tremendous resource saving in terms of
funding, land, infrastructure, energy, foreign exchange.
2.
Requirement of few hundred acres of land
for each institution will vanish. Thus more land can be made available for
modern farming and improved civic infrastructure.
3.
There won’t be any financial pressure on
the parents for sustaining their wards in Hostels.
4.
Staying at home will allow healthy and
hygienic food for the students all the time.
5.
Huge expenditure and pressure in hiring
faculty will be eliminated.
6.
Examination could be ‘Online or OMR
sheet’ based.
7.
Single University (National University)
alone can manage all online admissions and testing process.
8.
Students can register for ‘mooc courses
offered by nptel’.
9.
Anybody interested irrespective of age
with minimum eligibility should be able to register for the particular course.
This will do away with all entrance tests.
10. Students
thus will be able to register for a degree of choice since there can’t be any
limit on the number of seats available in a particular programme.
11. All
the students will hence be covering exactly the same curriculum and
examination. This will also help in providing honest National grading of
students (Absolute Ranking).
12. Pressure
of opening more institutions and creating infrastructure won’t be there.
13. There
won’t be any peer pressure on the tender minds. This will be saving students
from getting in to mental depression and frustrations.
14. Funds
saved could be utilized for creating better civic amenities and ‘Affirmative
Action’ for the society.
15. The
greatest advantage could be the Vaporization of Coaching Institutes, thus
saving young minds from the tremendous mental pressure which at times leads to
committing suicide.
16. Education
won’t be a business anymore.
NOTE: The impact on the nation would be that it will continue to be a nation of followers
The
Blog was first published on May 1st, 2019. The idea for writing blog
that time came from the prevalent lack of commitment for teaching and learning methodology
that has become the trend in almost all teaching institutions in the country.
Strangely
and accidentally the idea is a reality today due to CORONA pandemic. Most
institutions are following “Online” education and are awarding degrees without
completing the basic need of realistic teaching. Since Universities /
Institutes have already started distributing online degrees, the CONCEPT
expressed in the blog could be made a PERMANENT reality?
Concerned
students and parents may react either way but must react for the sake of their
FUTURE.