the world economic forumwef published education 40 report on october 7 highlighting the various challenges and solutions for school education in general and digital learning in particular the education 40 india report elucidates how the various forms of digital technology can reduce the learning gaps and make education accessible to all wef collaborated with unicef and yuwaah generation unlimited india to create this reportsome of the crucial challenges highlighted by wef in the digital space of education were the followingthe inequitable access to technology and using it came up as the main problem in expanding digital learning and optimising its potentialthe digital divide hits hard the children with disabilities those from migrant families living in remote areas and those from scheduled tribes and scheduled castesgirls in particular experienced these inequalities acutelyrapid assessment of learning in 6 states showed that only 68 of adolescents used technologyenabled learning tools in urban areas against 47 in rural areasinadequate training of teachers to use digital technology for education and the incapability of parents came across as other important challengessome of the important solutions suggested by wef to these problemsmultimodal digital options involving radio tv and mobile phones can play a pivotal role in narrowing the digital divide which is currently underutilisedparents can use personalised homework worksheets and videos at home to facilitate the digital learning of their children this can be enabled by ai an enabled chatbot with twoway engagementonline communities of parents and teachers can also create digital content repositories for enabling learning for childrenmobile apps can be used by parents for enabling the dissemination of video content homework and quizzes this can enable sensitization and capacity building in parents for creating the right kind of digital education environment at homeblended learning should be enabled to provide flexibility so that students can learn theoretical concepts online and practical concepts offline with the coordination of mooc online platforms learning management systemslms and proctored assessmentsaugmented realityar and virtual reality vr ai and simulation should be used for experiential learning of stembased subjects in alignment with nep 2020 goals of holistic experiential learning for studentsnatural language processing nlp should be used for teaching coding in local languages for stembased subjects and lifeskills coachingthe right technology infrastructure and the ability of the teachers to use technology effectively in assisting their students in digital learning can help significantlycontextspecific bitesized content that can be disseminated in print and digital formats through cloudbased platforms having audio stories with voice response should be usedquestions should be designed at the end of each session for critical thinkingthe report broadly tracked the progress of the following thingsit traces the progress of the education 40 india initiative which explains the way fourth industrial revolution technologies can improve learning and lessen the disparities to make more education accessible in indiait identifies challenges and solutions which can act as scalable interventions for enabling the participation of indian youths in the dynamically changing workspacethe wef report provides an outline to improve indias school system and draws