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Volume X XII No.1

BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan, Anand I t’s an ill-wind that blows nobody good. This ancient adage comes to
Sudarshan (Bangalore); Mala Ramadorai, Adi mind even as the malignant ill-winds bearing the deadly Coronavirus,
Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, Krishan Khanna,
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta (Mumbai); sweeps the world raining disease and death. Although the Coronavi-
Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Dr. Geeta Kingdon rus, aka Covid-19 pandemic which forced the Central government to
(Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah, Jeroninio lock down industry and businesses for over five months beginning
Almeida, Premchand Palety (Delhi); Robindra
Subba (Kurseong); Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. March 25, severely disrupted the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions
Achyuta Samanta (Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore of citizens, its silver lining is that it has forced the induction of new digital ICT
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(information communication technologies) into the country’s hitherto tech
EDITOR resistant classrooms and lecture halls.
Dilip Thakore As recounted in our first issue of 2021, informed monitors of India’s lag-
MANAGING EDITOR gard education institutions are pleasantly surprised, even astonished, by the
Summiya Yasmeen alacrity with which the teachers’ community countrywide has accepted the
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR inevitability of wired classrooms and need to utilise sophisticated digital tech-
Sundar Anand nologies to maintain the learning continuity of their students.
Paromita Sengupta, Gopi Chand N, (Bangalore), This is especially true of 450,000 private schools which, contrary to popular
Autar Nehru (Delhi) 9868256512, Baishali
Mukherjee (Kolkata) 9836491981, Shivani perception, educate 47 percent, i.e, 120 million, of the country’s 260 million
Chaturvedi (Chennai) 9500506102, Dipta Joshi in-school children. Inevitably, children studying in the country’s 1.20 million
(Mumbai) 9920243111 government schools defined by crumbling buildings, chronic teacher absentee-
CHIEF EXECUTIVE ism, poor sanitation and English language aversion, are not as fortunate. But
Bhavin Shah +91 9867382867 the buzz about the substantial benefits of ICT-enabled teaching-learning is
MARKETING generating heavy pressure on the Central and state governments to induct new
West: Tejas Pattni (General Manager) 9022487997 digital technologies into government schools.
E-mail: marketing@educationworld.in Be that as it may, blended learning — a combination of conventional class-
South India: S. Vijaya Lakshmi 98456 80696
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North: Hannan Ahmed 9810302768 era. Compulsory classroom attendance, the non-negotiable requirement of the
GRAPHICS pre-pandemic era, is likely to become history. It’s quite likely that as in higher
Suresh K. education, children will attend classes on alternate days, remaining connected
SUBSCRIPTIONS with their teachers all the while. This will be a blessing inasmuch as it will cut
Ajay Kumar: 9108225694/ down children’s harrowing daily commute to school in India’s increasingly
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