Abstract
India has the second largest higher education system in the world with 993 universities, 39931 colleges and 10,725 Stand Alone Institutions and improving higher education is a major policy priority of the government. Online education has emerged as the preferred form of education in the COVID-19 milieu. The media has served an important platform for debates on online education in India, and this debate got intensified during the two pandemic years. This paper undertakes a detailed analysis of the media discourse surrounding online and blended education in India. It identifies a focus on cost, access and learning outcomes as salient features of this discourse. The paper uses Framing theory to categorize this discourse into an “access-outcome” frame. The paper situates this access-outcome frame into a broader milieu of global discourse on online education. The authors observe that, given certain political (right-wing government) economic (neo-liberal) and social developments (rise of the new, aspirational middle class, education as product and institutions as service providers) in India, the aforementioned access-outcome frame is likely to strengthen over time with continued positive coverage by the media and enabling state policies.
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Juhi Sidharth, FLAME University, India
Chaitanya Ravi, FLAME University, India
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Conference: ACE2022
Stream: Higher education
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Sidharth J., & Ravi C. (2023) Remaking Higher Education?: A Content Analysis of the Media Discourse on Online and Blended Education in India ISSN: 2186-5892 The Asian Conference on Education 2022: Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5892.2023.66
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5892.2023.66
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