Digital Education: Scope and Challenges of a Developing Society

Volume : VII, Issue : V, May - 2018

Indu Singh

This paper studies the emerging innovations in the field of education. Due to technological advancement, digital education is

gaining popularity in India. In fast growing economy India has gained a transitional change from primitive stage of technology to

stage of advancement. At the time of independence India‘s literacy rate was merely 12%. But after a lot of effort which were

taken by the government the literacy has increased up to 72% according to the 2011 census. But it is still lags behind the world

literacy which is 84%. This paper studies about the digital education, it‘s scope and challenges of developing society.

Introduction of oad band, internet, data based centres and virtualization etc. has come up and gaining popularity and becoming

the need of today. Use of technology is very economical and easy access of internet has become a boon in education for

transmission of information etc. but we still have some problems, of language, availability of computers and internet etc. The

paper will try to high light these areas and challenges and their probable solutions for digital education in India.