Business Prospects For Entrepreneurs In Skill Based Online Education
Keywords:
online education, skills, entrepreneurs, free
Abstract
The present time is for Knowledge-Based Economy (KBE) because people can access any required information via internet browsers or mobile phone applications. The mobile applications have created a high demand for online education, as it is convenient to use, it has lower cost, higher reach etc. This is conceptual paper highlighting the future business opportunities that are available for young entrepreneurs in the field of online education. The young people who are aspiring to be entrepreneurs can help our country grow to a knowledge-based economy by shaping the students' skills in a required way. It can create ample of business opportunities to the aspiring entrepreneurs and job opportunities to the job seekers.The content analysis approach is used to study the different websites of government and no-government institutes. The study is an attempt to highlight few of the online education platforms for Indian i.e. Bhartiyastudents and job seekers. The study concludes that online education system is rising as it generates the student's satisfaction level. Moreover, anyone on job can continue (h)is/er studies. Many IITs, IIMs, NPTEL, NPTEL(SWAYAM) and CEC are providing freer and online courses to the students. For young aspiring entrepreneurs Government of India is providing freer online courses under startup India program. The study identified 20 online courses under start up India initiative of Government of India (GoI) and many freer and paid online education platforms in India. The findings reveal that there is rising demand for online courses in India after launch of Digital India Programme. New entrepreneurs can avail this opportunity and start their own online presence in online education.
Published
2019-12-27
Section
Research Article
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