Emerging Trends in Higher Education During Pandemic Covid-19: An Impact Study from West Bengal

Abstract

The present paper is concerned with the Covid-19 pandemic impact on Higher Educational Institutes (HEIs) predominantly. The pandemic impact has frozen educational institutes and their works. It has also made HEIs all over the world clueless to enhance safety environment for teaching–learning. The pandemic lockdown has masquerade numerous challenges to Higher Educational Institutes (HEI), particularly to West Bengal context. This study has been conducted with a predetermined size of 143 Higher Educational Institutes as sample organizations from the populations of 200 from West Bengal. The data have been collected and computed for analysis and discussion. HEIs have also used artificial intelligence components to enhanced machine learning interventions to meet the demands of the students and stakeholders. The data findings are to find the learning gap, attitude of teachers toward ICT teaching techniques, using ICT tools to increase the active participation of students online. It has been observed further that HEIs in West Bengal have used computational intelligence to bridge the learning outcomes through computer programming and data structure. Thus, this paper has explored newer technological solutions to bridge the learning gap, helps the students to be innovative through computational intelligence and digital platforms, and becomes merely a student-centered approach.