ABSTRACT
Scalability of education delivery remains one of the top challenges of providing education at all levels in India. Although the Indian education system works toward creating educational institutions of excellence, particularly in the cities, the challenges of education and literacy within a large cross section of society in cities and villages still remain at the fore. This is mainly because educators need to be connected to students across geographical distances and in large numbers. Upcoming technologies such as cloud-based deployment of online educational materials that are then made available to students using smart, handheld devices, offers opportunities to scale-up education in India. In this chapter, we do a comparative literature study of scalability of education through use of technologies in the Indian context. We study the student-to-teacher ratios across primary, secondary, and tertiary educational institutions; we then compare the ease or difficulty of deploying online education; we also study the need to provide a combination of online and face-to-face education at various levels in the system. Finally, we critically examine the existing policies and procedures in Indian education system and provide scholarly recommendations on their improvement to enable scalability, which also 374includes one already implemented successful model of cloud-based system in combination with local teachers.
