Business Education in India during COVID-19 Times: Challenges and Solutions

The purpose of this paper is to understand the challenges faced by business education institutes while imparting education to the students in India due to COVID-19 and to provide solutions to such problems. This is a paper on business education practices in COVID-19 times. The paper provide solutions that have been applied in our institute to cope with the challenges posed by coronavirus pandemic. The challenges included network connectivity, classroom participation, assessment methods, and end semester examinations, among others. We developed solutions by interacting with peers and taking cues from online forums of bodies from our industry in India, like the Association of India Universities. The innovative solutions included snap quizzes, providing free internet to students, case study discussions, simulations, among others, through online platforms.Not all innovative solutions were successful, but majority of them proved useful in such times. The paper is unique as it is a firsthand experience of the author in business educations field.