‘DIGITAL DIVIDE’ AND THE WIDENING OF EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITIES AMONG THE URBAN AND THE RURAL UNDERGRADUATE GENERAL DEGREE COLLEGES IN THE POST-COVID INDIA
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Pandemics, Online Teaching, Digital Challenges, Urban Education, Privatization, Higher Education, Digital JusticeAbstract
The unprecedented situation in the post-COVID-19 world leads to a paradigm shift in educational experience; and this experience is going to be a sustainable change. But in a developing country like India, the implementation of this new trend is going to be a huge challenge. Online teaching in colleges and universities in our country, which has been introduces through many problems and barriers, is mainly benefiting the urban students, but marginalized students are completely deprived of this new opportunity that will damage the education system, economy and other important pillars of the country and accelerate overall discrimination.
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