NEP 2020: Blended Learning- The Road Ahead for Higher Education in India

Abstract

Purpose: The National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 stresses majorly to promote the use of technology at all the stages and processes in the educational systems. The NEP, 2020 stresses on blended learning to be implemented in higher education. It has numerous features that suggest blended learning across disciplines as well as across the nation. It has been observed that blended learning offers transformative potential in higher education. So, the present paper intends to study the possible prospects of blended learning in the higher education system in India through the new national education policy of India.

Design/Methodology/Approach: The present paper is a document analysis to highlight the salient features of NEP 2020 with respect to blended learning in Indian higher education; to study the emerging trends of blended learning in Indian higher education and it also attempts to identify the problems and challenges that the Indian higher education system could face in the adoption of blended learning.

Findings: On critically reviewing, it is observed that blended learning has different models. So, different models of blended learning can be adopted to enhance the teaching-learning process for different subjects and disciplines by identifying the requirements and simulations for different subjects by using effective models of blended learning.

Originality/Value: The paper identified teaching-learning methods, competencies of educators, competencies of learners, ensuring learning outcomes and infrastructure or resources to be very crucial to be taken care of prudently for the successful and effective implementation of blended learning in Indian higher education. The paper thus concludes with a discussion that supports the idea of blended learning being the futuristic method of teaching-learning that holds the capacity to strengthen it.

Paper Type: View Point.