Online education helped resume learning that had come to a momentary and uncertain pause with the onset of COVID-19 pandemic across the globe. Since then, learning in many educational institutions continued through synchronous and asynchronous modes, with teaching being undertaken remotely on digital platforms. In this large-scale migration towards online mode of curriculum delivery induced by the pandemic, the institutional learning management system (LMS) had a critical role to play in ensuring uninterrupted learning and student engagement. By drawing heavily from extant works, learnings from MOOC platforms, observations from the LMS applications in corporate training, the present article synthesis the extant literature on how the effective use of LMS can make the learning process interactive, student centric, catering to the needs of diverse learners in higher education.

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Engaging with alumni has become an institutional priority for many higher educational institutions. Alumni help in building the institutional brand and Universities are devising their own strategies for engagement with their alumni. In this pursuit, institutions also encounter certain challenges. Given the diversity in the institutional strategies toward alumni engagement, the challenges faced by them are also diverse. The purpose of this chapter is to study the key practices of higher education institutions in India in the area of alumni engagement and identify challenges faced by them in engaging with alumni, especially from a mid- to long-term perspective. The study has been done based on a purposive sample for institutions in India that have been graded high on quality assurance and sustenance by assessment and accreditation agencies such as NAAC and AACSB. The information available on the home pages of these institutions has been used for the purpose of the study. The study reveals certain key strategies and best practices that can be implemented by institutions for greater engagement. Involving the alumni in all aspects of the institutional functioning is the key to nurturing a healthy association.

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