The Internet Will Surely Save Higher Education, But Will It Kill Your Alma Mater?
The Observer of Management Education|March 2018

The Internet Will Surely Save Higher Education, But Will It Kill Your Alma Mater?

Rinky Marwaha
The Internet Will Surely Save Higher Education, But Will It Kill Your Alma Mater?

The internet is a huge, mammoth-sized library of sorts. This one description suits it aptly. The best, or the worst, part of the net is that it is accessible for one and all. Anyone and everyone can log into the internet and make use of the information and data given in its hundreds of sites. Thus, there is a bit of information generalization, so to say. One could be any Tom, Dick or Harry to be able to access the bits and bytes available on the internet. If the site requires special access, then to, there are ways and means to be able to get across to the information available on it. One can fill in certain details in the given required columns and be able to get the data which one requires.

It can safely be said that this information library comes free of cost (unless the articles and notes require certain cash amounts to be deposited in the sites for access). Knowledge, hence, is available at one’s fingertips and can be had by those who choose to go through the internet. It is up to the person to tap into this vast resource and make use of all that is there in it. The initiative to make use of this very viable, very informative, facility is totally the user’s. The onus is on the user to be able to utilize this bank of know-how. What does seem important to notice, though, is that this information is available for all to see and to access. Thus, the role played by individual alma maters (the schools and colleges which one belongs to) becomes a bit secondary.

Our educational system is a tier-based one……

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