I find myself suppressing a giggle or two when I read news headlines announcing the shift of venerable campus-based universities like Harvard and MIT, not to mention our own elite campus-based institutions like the IIMs and IITs, shifting completely to online mode.
Why the giggle? Nearly ten years ago, I had chaired an Indian Ministry of Education (MHRD) Committee on online education, which had made a passionate case for urgent adoption of online/web-based educational methods, such that high-quality lectures of top professors in the IITs and IIMs are also available to every student in ...
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