Analyzing the Need for Augmenting Online Study Material for Engineering Students in the Era of Educational Technology (ET)

Abstract

The Online Educational Services Industry is one of the worldwide booming education sectors. By 2023 the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services in education market will record a CAGR of over 4%, which has been a forecast by Technavio’s analysts. Almost in all developing countries their governments have started to keep good budget for ICT. Education as a Service (Eaas) is equally becoming popular like other cloud service models such as Service as a service (Saas), Platform as a service (Paas) and Infrastructure as a service (Iaas). The current population of India is 1.36 billion (approx.), based on the United Nations estimates 2023, in that more than fifty percentage are ‘below 25’ age group. Rapid rise  in educational technology in India is due to the rise between the 5 and 24 age group population. Number of universities in India had reached to 1043, with 42343 colleges, where approx 40 million students are enrolled for higher education as per data till 2020. This is approx 30% of the gross enrolment for higher education. Shortly from now, India would be having the largest working population. The major objectives of the study is to apprehend the need for augmenting study material for engineering students in the world of Educational technology. And also to identify the factors influencing the need for supplementary material for engineering students.