E-grāmata: Digitalization of Higher Education: Opportunities and Threats

Introduction
1. Role of Digitalization in Higher Education: Looking
through the Lens of Opportunities
2. Different Approaches to E-Learning: A
Theoretical Perspective
3. Challenges and Opportunities of Digitalization in
the Higher Education System
4. Teachers and Students Perspectives on
Digitalization in Higher Education
5. Making India a Knowledge Superpower
through Digitalization
6. Role of Leadership and Management of Higher
Education Institutions (HEIs) in Digitalization
7. Democratizing Education:
Reskilling and Rebuilding with E-Learning
8. Virtual Higher Education:
Demystifying the Learning Dynamics of Digital Platforms
9. Online Tutelage:
Meeting the Educational Needs in the Post-Pandemic Scenario
10. Does Real
Learning Happen? Flexible Online Education through Contextualized Hybrid
Model Leads to Undisrupted Constructivist Experiential Learning in a
Post-Pandemic Global Environment
11. Is Technology a Silver Bullet? Exploring
the Boons and Curses of Digital Education
12. Teaching in the Internet Age
Encompasses Teaching as a Way of Life
13. Surviving Online, Living Offline:
Critical Perspectives on Online Education and Its Impact on Students and
Teachers
14. Future of Online Education: The Relationship Between
Personality, Learning Strategies, and Learning Medium Preferences
15. The A
To Z of Using Social Networking Sites for a Digitalized Higher Education
System
16. Transforming Higher Education into Asynchronous Learning:
Challenges and Opportunities from the Gender Perspective in India
17. Digital
Education During Disruptive Times Like the Covid-19 Pandemic
18.
Digitalization in Indian Higher Education: Are Students Ready?
19.
Deciphering the Interconnectedness between Digital India and Digital Education

Tanusree Chakraborty, PhD, is currently a faculty member at the Centre of Human Resource Development, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, in India. With 20 years of overall work experience and 19 years of academic experience, Dr. Chakraborty has been associated with several reputable business schools and universities in India. She is presently working with Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, in organizational behavior/human resource management. She is a former research fellow of the Indian Council of Medical Research and has many publications to her credit in Scopus-indexed and ABDC-listed journals, as well as in University Grants Commission-approved journals. She has presented research papers at several conferences and is an empaneled corporate trainer with training consultancies and government productivity councils. She has conducted over 150 corporate training programs in the areas of behavioral science and HR and psychometrics. She has been editor of several journals and newsletters and a reviewer for many journals. She is currently working on multiple edited books with reputed publishers. Dr. Chakraborty holds a PhD in Applied Psychology from Calcutta University, India; an MA (Applied Psychology) with a specialization in Organizational Psychology; a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management; and MBA (Human Resources).

Ashok Natarajan, PhD, was formerly at the College of Business Administration, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA. He has over 15 years of experience in the academic arena in addition to more than five years of experience as a practicing manager, both in the USA and India. He has been a consultant on several business valuation projects. His area of specialization is accounting and finance, and he has published several research papers in the top accounting and finance journals. His current research interests include accounting conservatism, business valuation, earnings management, and industrial organization. In addition, he works in the areas of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (and the role of accounting and finance in these two areas) and corporate strategy. Dr. Natarajan has won numerous awards for his teaching and has been recognized for his service and mentoring roles.

Nandita Mishra, PhD, has more than 25 years of teaching experience in managerial economics and economic environments for business, business ethics and corporate governance, corporate grooming, and general management subjects. She has been the resource person and program director for more than 50 management development programs and has trained senior-level and middle-level managers and faculty in various programs in behavioral science, managerial effectiveness, corporate social responsibility, etc. She is a certified trainer in CSR from the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs. She is a nominated member of the Higher Education Council of the Women Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WICCI), whose main goal is to engage and encourage higher education institutions in research, training, and entrepreneurship development.

Madhurima Ganguly, PhD, has 16 years of work experience in teaching and research. She is currently Associate Professor at the Heritage Business School, Kolkata, India. Dr. Ganguly has numerous national and international publications in leading Scopus, ABDC, and UGC journals, along with book chapters. She has presented papers at international conferences held at the Indian Institutes of Management and Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) as well as abroad. She has earned best paper awards at IIT Delhi and TISS (Tata Institute of Social Science) Mumbai, India. She has acted as a session chair for different international conferences and is a reviewer with several journals. Dr. Ganguly is also the PhD supervisor of management students at Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Technical University of West Bengal, India. Dr. Ganguly is the recipient of the "Excellence in Education (Management and Commerce) Award" conferred by the Global Research Forum, New Delhi, in 2020. She has successfully conducted training sessions and management development programs with government bodies and corporate houses.