29 May Why UGC’s proposal for ‘blended teaching’ is a bad idea (Indian Express, GS-2, Governance)

Context:-  University Grants Commission to encourage “blended teaching” in higher educational institutions effectively means replacement of face-to-face teaching with online teaching. It recommends 30 per cent of courses would be online initially.

Current approach:-

•   present teaching is top-down

• Teacher-centric
• One-size-fits-all
•  ignores the diversity of students.

A blended approach:-

• would provide students autonomy
•  instil a disposition of self-advocacy
•  promote student ownership 
•  enable them to learn at their own pace
• massive online open courseware or MOOCs were seen as a potential

Issue:-

• • Teaching is not about jus delivering the online lecture or dictating the bookish knowledge
  • Now pushing on the swayam portal, online education will somehow cut the number of teachers in the campus
  • Teacher student emotional bond will break
  • Government wants to cut the budget given to the universities
  • Government try to make the hold on the education
  • Homenginety can not be the way out in the education
  • What about the research?
    

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Swarn Singh

Plutus IAS Current Affair Team Member