‘Online education is one of the biggest finds of the last decade’

Online acquisition is 1 of the biggest finds of the past decade, Kadhambari S. Viswanathan, adjunct vice-president, Vellore Institute of Technology, said connected Friday (February 13, 2026) at The Hindu Tech Summit 2026.

She was speaking astatine a session, titled ‘From Campus to Corporation: Building Industry-Ready Talent for an AI First World’, successful speech with L.V. Navaneeth, Chief Executive Officer, The Hindu Group, astatine the lawsuit hosted by The Hindu, presented by VIT, and co-presented Sify Technologies.

“There is simply a batch of treatment connected however online acquisition volition alteration and if it volition wholly regenerate carnal classroom-based education. But some tin co-exist and supplement and complement each other,” she said.

Talking astir integer literacy and integer wellbeing, Ms. Viswanathan underscored the request for teaching the younger procreation however to usage exertion with caution. “They should beryllium masters of exertion and not the different mode around. There is not overmuch literacy and consciousness astir integer wellbeing among the people,” she added. 

There is evidence-based probe connected however surface clip affects the puerility and the intelligence wellbeing of teenagers, she said.

Asked astir however modern exertion transforms the regular beingness and learning acquisition of students, Ms. Viswanathan said teaching was accepted earlier. But it is nary longer faculty-led; it is rapidly becoming a student-led experience. “Faculty volition facilitate the learning process but volition not beryllium [entirely in] power of the learning process. It is changing due to the fact that of accusation overload disposable online. But, of course, quality involution is ever needed,” she added. 

Ms. Viswanathan said the mode the skillsets are going to advancement volition beryllium precise different. “There is decidedly a skillset mismatch, and it is owed to the deficiency of applicable vulnerability during the people of study. This tin beryllium solved lone erstwhile determination is due connection betwixt the manufacture and the academia,” she added. 

She said that 1 of the biggest challenges of generative AI is however it affects the connection skills of the people.