Online Educational Ecosystem, Sustainability and Resiliency in Bangladesh: Scaffolding Pathways?

ABSTRACT

How is online tertiary education opening the student/teacher mind-set, particularly during the transitional learning/teaching process? The question is tested through a country-wide survey of students/teachers conducted against Independent University, Bangladesh's (IUB's) own transition. Students reported two broad changes (a) micro-level infrastructural and resource issues resonating with macro-level interventions;and (b) the quality of learning vis-à-vis teaching amid-online platform transition merely exacerbating both teacher-level and student-level pressures. Accordingly, the chapter illustrates a handful of micro-level leverage points, based upon learner characteristics, needs, and university online ecosystem (including infrastructures, teacher's competency challenges, and Covid-19 impacts on the learning-teaching community), for future relevance. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023.