Paper presented at SIS 2012 Conference held at NIT Silchar organised by Dr. K C Satpathy

1. Ms. Rupashree Paul
ICSSR, Doctoral Fellow
Department of Education
Assam University, Silchar
&
Dr. Tapan Kumar Basantia
Department of Education
Assam University, Silchar

2. MAJOR ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION
 Introduction
 New dynamics in higher education
 E-Based higher education system
 Higher Education in North East India
 Issues and Favorable Effects
 Prerequisites for effective use of it
 Recommendations

3. INTRODUCTION
 An academic revolution in the past half century .
 Higher education shift from the culture of print to a
culture of digital technology.

4. New dynamics in higher education
Over the past decade, new dynamics have emerged in
each of the key domains of higher education ,research
and innovation. These are :
 Demand,
 Diversification of provision,
 Changing lifelong learning needs,
 Growing communication and information
technology.

5. Perticipation rates in higher education
 Globally, age perticipation rates in higher education
have grown from 19% in 2000 to 26% in 2007.
 Private higher education is now the fasted growing
sub-sector and some 30% of students are enrolled in
private higher education institutions globally.
 Some countries like Japan, South Korea enroll 80% of
their students in private higher education institutions.

6. UNESCO’S 2009 WORLD CONFERENCE
 Rising demand and massification
 Diversification of providers and methods
 Private provision
 Distance education
 Cross-border higher education
 Quality assurance
 Teacher education
 Academic profession.

7. E-based higher education system
• Globalization, a key reality in the twenty-first century
has already profoundly influenced higher education.

8.  Information and communication technology on
higher education can also be seen in the way that
the core activities of universities, specifically
teaching and research have shifting in recent years.

9. The teacher has to manage e based classroom.

14. Source : UGC and AIU
Table 1: Number, Nature and Category of Institutions(As on
August, 2011)
SL. Types of Institutions Number of
No. Institutions
1. Central Universities 43
2. State Universities 289
3. Deemed to be Universities 130$
4. State Private Universities 94
5. Institutions established through state 05
legislation
6. Institutes of National Importance plus others 50
7. Colleges 31,324

15. TABLE 2 : Growth of Universities and Colleges in India during the
years 2004-05 -2008-09
Year Universities Colleges Total
2004-05 343 17625 17968
2005-06 355 18064 18419
2006-07 376 20677 21053
2007-08 408 22064 22472
2008-09 467 25951 26418

16. Reforming Higher Education in the Light of
E-learning: A Felt Need
 The Indian government’s role is quite optimistic in
proliferation of e-learning and ICT.
 The government is collaborating with the developed
nations and other economic blocs of the world for
uniform ramification of e-learning and ICT
throughout the country

17. Some of the E-learning Projects
National Knowledge Network (NKN)
National Programme on Technology Enhanced
Learning (NPTEL)
National Library and Information Services
Infrastructure for Scholarly Content
VAST-based Mobile e-Learning Terminals

18. the 12th Five Year Plan
 Digital Repository in Universities & Colleges
 Internet Connectivity in Universities and College
 ICT for Universities
 e-Content Development
 Digitization of Doctoral Theses
 e-Governance of Higher Education & UGC
 Launching the National Mission on Education through ICT
(NMEICT) for digitization and networking of all
educational institutions
 National Knowledge Network (NKN) and Connected
Digital Campuses (UGC Report,2011).

19. Issues of E-based Indian Higher Education
System
 Online tutoring can be more time consuming than
face to face tutoring,
 Training is required for both teacher and students,
 The use of the large virtual learning environments is
expansive and may demand additional equipments,
 Blended solutions can be expensive as they may
involve the development of expensive online learning
resources.

20. Cont…
 The student and teacher need basic information
technology skills,
 Lack of social interaction in asynchronous learning
environment.
 Inadequate IT infrastructure.

21. Favorable Effects of E-based Higher Education
System
 Improve quality of higher education,
 Economy of scale may bring down the cost of
education,
 Batter system of evaluation,
 Cultural scientific and technological integration lead
economic uniformity,
 Batter delivery system of Higher Education.

22. Prerequisites for effective use of E-based Higher
Education System
 With technological innovation, it is possible to deliver
higher education any time any where,
 Infrastructural availability for E-Learning,
 Adaptation of Cross-Broader Higher Education,
 Government sponsored scheme on higher education
can be run in foreign countries for cultural exchange,
 Teachers need to be proficient in using e-based
strategies.

24. Conclusion and suggestions
 Creativity provides a base for excellence in a
competitive world. If we want to our higher education
system to serve the changes brought by the knowledge
explosion of information technology, we must
mobilize the creative talent of the human resources
which is lying as stagnant condition.
 In the present era of globalization and privatization,
it has become extremely essential that the teacher are
provided full support for their academic development
and recognition.

25.  If really higher education has to move ahead, then
teacher belongs to the private institutions also needs
to be motivated and encourage to participate in the
professional and academic related activities.

26. THANK YOU