Abstract
The paper explores the opportunities and challenges in providing online education. The revolution in telecom sector, growing demand of higher education, low gross enrollment ratio (GER) create the need to find alternative delivery mechanism to improve GER and provide skill enhancement to one of the largest population of young people (704 million, according to Euro Monitor 2012) in the world. National Mission on Education through ICT (NMICT) is a step in the right direction. But the scale of the services and courses is a cause of concern. The ministry of HRD has also initiated project Aakash in collaboration with IIT. Several state governments have promised laptops/tablets to the school pass outs to secure their victory in elections. The opportunity is realized by all concerned, but there is no dedicated effort to take the initiatives beyond the populist measures and convert the advantages of ICT into concrete results in terms of improvement in GER or skill enhancement. The regulatory framework is not yet ready to provide accreditation support to these initiatives. The paper concludes with recommendations to convert the opportunity into a success story for skill enhancement to ensure demographic dividend.
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