Online Education in India: Trends & Future Prospects
Online Education in India: With the development and advancement of technology, India has witnessed an enhanced acceptance of online education over a period of a few years. Many students and working professionals have joined different e-learning platforms in the past few years in order to enhance their skills. And, looking at trends, the number of people adopting online education platforms is expected to increase significantly in the near future.
Emerging Trends in the Indian Online Higher Education System
India has one of the largest higher education systems in the world. It mainly consists of three parts – university, college, and course. And, all parts of the higher education system are governed by the University Grants Commission and its professional councils.
There has been a huge change in the dynamics of learning. Online higher education in India is evolving, and different private universities have emerged offering undergraduate and postgraduate e-learning courses to students. However, as compared to graduation and diploma courses, the demand for online higher education is dominated by post-graduation courses such as MBA and MCA (as evident in the graph below).
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Course-wise preference in different areas
Source: KPMG Report: Online Education in India: 2021
Also, look at the kind of courses adopted by students and working professionals in tier 1 and tier 2 cities.
Online course preference across tier 1 and tier 2 cities
Source: KPMG Report: Online Education in India: 2021
As is evident in the graph above, tier 1 cities have higher adoption of various postgraduate courses such as MBA, MCA, MTech, and BEd/MEd. However, in tier 2 cities there is a high demand for only those courses that can offer lucrative job opportunities to students such as MBA and MCA.
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Online Education: Why it is Gaining Popularity and Future Prospects
There are many reasons why students and working professionals are moving towards e-learning/ online education. Have a look at some such reasons below:
- Internet Penetration: India has an internet penetration of about 52.4% today, which means more than half of the country's 1.4 billion people use the internet. It is predicted that by 2029, there will be nearly an increase of 4.5 per cent in internet users in India, which will lead to an increase in traffic for online education players.
- Smartphone and Social Media Penetration: Currently, there are 462 million users in India as of January 2024 and over 1.12 million active smartphone users in India which is approximately 78% of the population of the country.
- Flexibility of Time: This is specifically true for working professionals who have time constraints in pursuing an offline course. Pursuing a course in online mode allows a person to multi-task with other work and family commitments.
- Quality Education: There are areas in India which lack quality offline education. Enrollment in online education in India has been ever-growing. There was a `70% increase in online education enrolment from 2021 to 2022.
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- Immediate Results: Online education allows candidates to get immediate results for any test that they appear for. This further helps them in preparing for exams more efficiently.
- Government Initiatives and Augmented Virtual Reality: The government’s initiatives such as SWAYAM, e-Basta, and Digital India is expected to strengthen the infrastructure needed by students to pursue education in online mode. The integration of Augmented virtual reality technology has revolutionised the online education trend in India and across the world. It is predicted that by the year 2025, integration of virtual reality and AI will become more accessible and affordable offering the students the opportunities in ways unimaginable.
- Accessibility and Affordability: Online courses offered at UG or PG level are much more affordable than traditional programmes. As said above, online education has surpassed socio-economic barriers and has democratized the learning process. Advances in technology and waves of internet accessibility is growing and will continue to grow that will ensure that students in even the remotest areas can access quality education.
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- Exam preparation through online education: The number of students adopting online platforms for exam preparation is expected to increase significantly in the coming years. The different online platforms could either act as a substitute or complement the existing offline test prep market to provide coaching to students for various exams such as JEE Main, NEET, CAT, Bank PO, and CLAT. About 90 per cent of the students prefer online modes over offline coaching.
Many new players have emerged in the online test prep market which have launched exam-specific mobile applications for students. Apart from that, the lack of good faculty in tier 2 and 3 cities is also driving candidates from these areas to adopt online platforms for exam preparation.
A hybrid model is expected to gain traction in future, where online players are expected to open offline centres to provide classroom-like experiences to students. Also, gamification, the approach of introducing fun elements like video game design in learning, is likely to gain popularity in India.
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- Which are the topics your are confident at
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- Which are the subjects where you need to start from scratch
- What are your srength and weakness
These are some of the prembles of your preparation strategies. Following after make daily schedule allocating specific time for each subject. Try to cover those subjects first where you feel confident of scoring well. Try to finish syllabus at least a month before exam.
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Tier-Wise Adoption of Online Test Prep Courses
Source: KPMG Report: Online Education in India: 2021
There is a higher adoption rate for job-focused test prep (such as for Bank PO, GMAT/ MBA, and other government services) courses in tier 1 cities. On the other hand, in tier 2 cities, candidates are more inclined toward taking online test prep for UG courses (related to streams such as Engineering, Medical, and Law).
Ways in which online education helps candidates prepare efficiently for different competitive exams are as follows:
- Webinar: A seminar conducted in the online mode is referred to as a webinar. These days many online players conduct webinars that help candidates with conceptual clarity.
- Mock tests: Mock tests are emerging as a popular course component for students wherein they participate in a series of tests and get a comparative assessment (with other students) of their performance. With mock tests, candidates also get to know their areas of improvement as well as the exam pattern of the competitive exam they are planning to appear for.
- Videos: Videos are helpful for candidates in solving exam papers and other problem areas.
- Counselling: As a differentiator, players in the online test prep market have also started offering course and career counselling services to students.
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Hi aspirant!
Clearing the JEE Main exam in first attempt is not a difficult task. If we see the year over year statistics, the ratio of students who clear JEE Main in first attempt is high in comparison to students who dropped a year after class 12. One thing that makes it easy to clear JEE Main with class 12 is that students are in regular touch of most JEE syllabus. To score good marks in JEE Main in the first attempt, it is advised that you study class 11 and 12 topics thoroughly, clear all the concepts and solve mock test papers. Also, NCERT books which you study in class 11 and 12 are the best books for JEE Main preparation. Students must study NCERT properly and solve all the questions in the book and do not memorize the concepts as some students do rather understand the concepts.
Hope this cleared your doubt. Best wishes!