IIT-D Director V Ramgopal Rao is guest at E-Xplained tomorrow

With no clarity on reopening, higher education institutions are now faced with difficult questions. Can online classes be as effective and accessible as face-to-face classes? Will all universities and colleges have to adopt a hybrid model of teaching in future? How should a teacher grade and evaluate students in a pandemic? How big a hit would campus placements take this year?

The Indian Express has invited IIT-Delhi Director Professor V Ramgopal Rao to answer some of these critical questions about the future of higher education as it is being reshaped by the pandemic.

Apart from heading a globally ranked institution, Rao was the chairperson of the committee tasked by the government to draft a common minimum strategy for reopening the 23 IITs. He was also a member of the panel based on whose advice the HRD Ministry rescheduled major entrance tests like NEET, JEE (Main) and JEE (Advanced). IIT-Delhi is also the organising institute for JEE (Advanced) this year.

Rao will be the Expert Guest at the latest edition of E-Xplained, the unique series of explanatory conversations that The Indian Express hosts from time to time. Expert Guests at E-Xplained sessions since the lockdown began have included Kerala’s Health Minister K K Shailaja, Public Health Foundation of India president Dr K Srinath Reddy, industrialist Dr Naushad Forbes, and capital markets expert Nilesh Shah.