TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION THROUGH NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY 2020: IMPLEMENTATION OF BLENDED LEARNING FOR EQUITABLE QUALITY EDUCATION

India foresees the transformational reforms in its education system through its new National Education Policy (NEP, 2020), which highlights the requirements of holistic, multidisciplinary and futuristic education through technology integration. NEP 2020 focusses on ensuring increased use of technology to bring about possibilities for equitable quality education. This paper comprises descriptive analysis with a qualitative approach to review the policy reforms with respect to technology integration in the new NEP 2020. Thus, the paper describes the implications of NEP 2020 with respect to innovations for technology integration into education at various levels and presents a brief comparison of new NEP 2020 and the previous policy on education (1986, modified in 1992) on the basis of technology integration. It also highlights major thrusts areas for the implementation of blended learning in Indian contexts to bring about equitable quality education. Also, various researches on technology integration and its considerations in NEP 2020 for the effective implementation of blended learning in Indian contexts to bring about equitable quality education are presented in this paper.