DIGITIZATION OF EDUCATION AND ITS SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO TRIVANDRUM

This study is makes a comparative analysis of the rural-urban divide in digital education and examines the benefits and challenges of e-learning. A total of 124 respondents consisting of students, teachers and parents residing in the rural and urban areas of Trivandrum were surveyed using a well-structured questionnaire administered in both English and Malayalam. The sample population was identified through stratified random sampling. The study finds that disruption of internet connectivity due to signal unavailability is a major challenge of e-learning. Also, majority of the stakeholders were unwilling to make a conscious shift to a digitised education mode. Mostly students favoured online education because of its ease of usage, convenience, remote accessibility and system response speed. But most of the parents and teachers preferred offline education

India-China: Intersecting Universalities

This collection of articles is mainly the result of an international conference organised by the Chair of Chinese Intellectual History at the Collège de France in June 2017. Entitled “India-China: Intersecting Universalities”, it brought together scholars from Asia, America and Europe who have been interested in one aspect or other of the cultural interactions between India and China. The diversity of the topics testifies to the lively interest raised by the intersection of two heavyweights of area and cultural studies. What makes the relationship between “China” and “India” so remarkably interesting is that one can hardly imagine two civilisational worlds as radically different from each other, which yet managed somehow to come into contact and to interact. The aim of the present volume is to look at various aspects of the cultural exchanges between India and China at different points of history. It is to try and remedy a certain indifference and mutual ignorance in our day and age that we bring forward this collective venture with the hope of offering to our readers alternative approaches to the connections between these two “giants of Asia”, other than the merely geopolitical ones that fill our media today