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Digital Technology Teaching and Learning Strategies: An Impact Study of Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in West Bengal

. Dr. Mourlin K Assistant Professor in Business Management (HR) Xavier Business School (XBS) St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata


Abstract

The arrival of Covid-19 has paralyzed the entire movement of the world around. The Pandemic influence has posed numerous challenges to Higher education around the globe. Educational Institutes are stagnated with teaching-learning gaps. The Higher Educational Institutes are grappling with changing context in educational system, where traditional instructional mode has become less effective during this crisis. The Covid-19 has brought the closure of total cessation of business, education and other activities. The lives have stranded, business handcuffed and education systems frozen. Cohen & Kupferschmidt, (2020)have indicated that the rise of closure of schools is increasing and  the educational systems has been affected sector largely. According to UNESCO report 2020 indicates that there is an alarming situation around the globe regarding education. It reports that there are 1,215,881,292 affected learners, which is nearly 70 % of total enrolled learners and around 162 country-wide closures of educational institutes. It has really shaken the global educational institutes. Jain, (2020)has indicated that the tiny adventure of a few individuals with Covid-19, and has brought massive disruptions in Indian educational system. The background study has helped the researcher to identify considerable gaps in literature which in other justify the rationale for carrying out a research work on the topic under study. Due to obvious reasons, existing literature largely focuses on different aspects of ICT tools and technqiues. Using stratified random sampling technique, researcher has selected  mixed Higher Educational Institutes (Male and female) for the present study. In this exercise, Researcher has prepared the list of Private colleges on the basis of the information available from the portal administered by Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal (www.wbhed.gov.in) Accordingly, a list of 80 HEIs has been prepared, administered and data was collected.  Based on the predetermined sample size, we have received responses from 40 Higher Educational Institutes (HEIs) comprising of 162 respondents, which signifies a response rate of 64.08%. We have obtained a satisfactory value of reliability using Cronbach’s Alpha (0.920) which signifies the overall strength of 55 items of the research construct. These 55 variables are drawn from ongoing research works and conclusions and these would be validated through current research objectives namely: to examine the overall influence of technology-enabled teaching and learning aspects, having contextual analysis with Correlation coefficients®, further studying the aspects converging into factors with factor reduction technique and finally formation of clusters to understand the close association of teachers in each cluster based their characteristics. The current research data was computed with the help of SPSS and drawn conclusions about the outcome of the current research namely: context analysis strategies, content development strategies, Technology-skill match, Technology Big five strategies, Teaching learning factors and cluster of two groups indicating High Technology Oriented Faculties and Moderate Teaching Learning oriented. Thus the current research outcomes have indicated that there is a sharp rise of online Teaching Learning platforms and we could predict the future of our educational systems have to be online based and directed to digital learning. The limitation of the study was the minimization of data and the respondents.

 

Key words: Teaching-Learning, Online platforms, Big Five strategies, Content, context,  Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Curriculum Design, Student Coaching 

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