Evaluating Online Education in India: Insights from Teachers

Abstract

Online education is revolutionizing the academic environment due to its flexibility, providing accessibility to high-quality pedagogy for teachers and students. The National Education Policy of 2020 promotes online education and strongly recommends using resources like “SWAYAM” (“Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds”), e-Pathshala, and MOOCs (“Massive Open Online Courses”), facilitating anywhere learning for everyone. Although accessibility to education has increased, but its effectiveness is still debatable. This study assesses online education from the Indian educators’ standpoint, emphasizing its benefits and drawbacks. This will help find ways to help teachers overcome the challenges they encounter and reach the full potential of this style of instruction in empowering pupils.Triangular fuzzy numbers(TFNs)are used to make decision  and “TOPSIS” (“Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution”) is used to select the best response regarding student non-participation, obstacles faced, and the overall experience of teachers utilizing online learning based on questionnaire data. The proposed method effectively addresses human judgment and uncertainty in responses through the application of Fuzzy TOPSIS.