New Ways of Growth in Challenging Times: Study of Indian Academic Institutions

In the wake of times of challenges as grave as facing a pandemic like COVID-19, agility allows the organizations to sustain and open up to their full potential. The impact on the business environment brings about forced changes in form of adopting new tools and techniques to sustain growth. Such is the case of Indian academic institutions, which have adopted new means of development amidst uncertain economic outlook and chaos. The purpose of this study is to describe how learning methodologies evolve and to evaluate the quality of the digital mode of instruction and learning as an alternate to the traditional face-to-face 'on campus' programs conducted by educators. The findings of the study support the significance of an interactive online medium of instruction and learning. The study delineates a range of ways of understanding the effectiveness of online teaching. With the suggested measures for improving the design, academic institutes may create an effective online learning environment to ensure meaningful discourse among instructors and learners. By taking the example of academic industry, it also contributes toward analyzing the effectiveness of a newly adopted mode of instruction or a learning technique.