Sachin Gupta is one of the youngest first-generation Chancellors in India. It sets him apart and clearly shows his passion for education. His motto is providing holistic education to so that learners will have excellence in life. Sachin Gupta’s journey of two decades in the higher education sector has been unprecedented in terms of influencing the quality and system of higher education in the private sector. With the power of his vision, clarity of his mission and analytical ability, the university under his leadership is poised for achieving greater heights of excellence.
Global Pandemic coronavirus has led multifarious changes in the working of every sector. Pandemic led to the closing of education intuitions to prevent the spread of the virus. Therefore a new gateway for imparting education emerged. i.e. virtual classrooms, a new and innovative concept in India. Global experimentation with remote teaching is the most efficient option available to bridge the education gap. Almost Every education institution today has opted for the online mode. The medium of these virtual classes are platforms like Zoom, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams and many more. Adapting to this new mode was quite difficult initially. Still, it is turning out to be a useful model for students and teachers both and the best alternative option under the circumstances.
This new education model is undoubtedly the future of modern education as it enables you to learn wherever you are, uplifting the technical advancement and definitely making education more creative.
Here are the top 5 features of the experimental mode of learning, making it the future of new education.
1. Flexibility
Online education is enabling teacher and the student to set their personal learning pace, adding more flexibility to set class schedule, adding innovative methods to check student’s learning. Now the student can take his lecture from anywhere. It is also helping students to improvise time management skills and consequently become more disciplined, which apparently helps in maintaining good work-study balance. Unlike traditional means of learning, the student can give his assessments online as also avail course material online. There is direct contact between teacher and students, which enables both parties to understand and respond in the required way.
2. Affordability
Online education is a more affordable option as compared to offline mode of education as it eliminates a wide range of payment options as the student can pay for the webinars that are relevant to him. Besides, for the academic classes, it eliminates commuting costs, course material costs and many more miscellaneous fees. Therefore, there is less monetary investment, and education is more advanced.
3. Easily accessible
Online education enables studying or teaching from anywhere in the world. That is there is no need for commuting from one place to another or follow any rigid schedule which not only helps to save time but also helps in saving money. The virtual classroom is available anywhere where an internet connection is available. Online learning helps in eliminating social and physical barriers, i.e. learning from a foreign institution remotely is accessible now. Many skill-based online certificates and courses are also available which are accessible through online modes for better learning.
4. Career relevant
Learning with a new method of education is more flexible and multi-tasking. Students can meet career-relevant skills while sitting at home apart from learning from online classes, there is more time for students to attain online training, pursue skill-based online courses, etc. These sources boost up student’s résumé making him future-ready. E-learning is not only beneficial for students but also for the teachers as it is making teachers more updated to e-teaching techniques.
5. Enhance new-age technology
Unlike traditional education, learning online is more advanced, as now students and teachers both are becoming more innovative, self-initiators which is helping to discover the undiscovered and setting of new trends. Both are navigating the course lectures, downloading course materials, interacting online, communicating well digitally and making new networks. E-learning allows a broad scope of practical and innovative learning. Online education ensures learning more than what is just written in books. The student can avail study material in the form of video, document, and voice notes etc. It can, therefore, be concluded that virtual education has widened the scope of learning as now the student can learn through various sources, get familiar to the digital world. We at Sanskriti University are fully equipped to switch over to hybrid learning mode.
More About Sachin Gupta
Sachin Gupta was conferred Youngest Chancellor award by Her Excellency Smt. Pratibha Patil and Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji. The prominent amongst the awards conferred on him are Bharat Gaurav Samman, Bharat Vidya Shiromani, Young Edupreneur, Youngest Chancellor Award etc. Ensuring the holistic development of students to make them skilled is very close to his heart. A visionary and a selfless leader with exceptional interpersonal, social and administrative skills is an appropriate description of Sh. Sachin Gupta. He was aptly honoured with Bharat Gaurav Samman in the USA, besides a recognition award by Dr A. P.J. Abdul Kalam.