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Blended Learning in Indian Elementary Education: Problems and Prospects
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, Chhinpur Junior High School, India

Journal of Online Learning Research Volume 4, Number 2, ISSN 2374-1473 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC USA

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Elementary education is very vital in human life as well as for the whole society. So it is the duty of every guardian and Government to give elementary education to every child. It serves three major purposes in a man’s life. It gives him a basic foundation for learning the core subjects. It helps to learn about his environment and society and it also helps him to foster his interest in duty and responsibility within his own community through various activities. So researches should be carried on to improve the whole system giving elementary education to our children. Innovative thinking should be employed to universalize of elementary education in the country. Blended learning is one such innovative thinking which may proof effective in giving elementary education more successfully to the children. So the objective of this study is to understand the scope of introducing Blended Learning in the elementary schools in India as well as the problems and prospects of introducing it.

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Kundu, A. (2018). Blended Learning in Indian Elementary Education: Problems and Prospects. Journal of Online Learning Research, 4(2), 199-227. Waynesville, NC USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 15, 2024 from .

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