E-learning in India-A wave

Al Malik Sadaket

In the last five years, Ministry of Development Resources Human (MHRD) has been employed to achieve the goal of making education accessible to all children, particularly among marginalized groups in rural areas. Also We are closing the gap between market needs and skills available among the professionals through private sector participation in the curriculum.

On reaching the issue of quality, infrastructure and teachers are two major concerns, which should focus on. We're linking the university as possible in the field of the University Grants Commission (UGC) to improve its quality. The UGC and AICTE also pursuing various measures to attract new graduates in search of the profession.

Very recently, the ministry launched the National Mission for Education through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The sum of Rs.4612 crore was incurred during the Five Year Plan 11 for the scheme. There is a budget provision of Rs.502 crore during the year in 2008-09.

The government alone can not address all these challenges. The private sector must play a proactive role to complement efforts by the government. A PPP model should be developed with the active participation of stakeholders at central and state level.

11th Plan maintained a five-year goal to increase the gross enrollment rate and 15% at the end of the plan year. This is where ICT measures in. ICT integration in education will give new impetus to our efforts to achieve our goal to increase our gross enrollment expanding the field of education in remote and marginalized areas of our country.

With a large percentage of our population making up the workforce, ICT also gives them the space to follow their own pace and practice time. The role of open and distance learning (ODL) of systems, which have accepted and integrated ICT into their operations and outreach is particularly relevant here.

But Also is important to maintaining knowledge at the end of the training programs. high quality e-learning solutions can be developed in India with appropriate technology and support to industry in areas as diverse as steel, computers, automobiles, cement and telecommunications. Industry observers believe that because of its advantages, India is expected to grow in size as the center of electronic learning programs.

Interestingly, many businesses are flourishing here in India to provide eclass; places like Bombay and Bangalore are becoming important centers provide eTutorials. It is booming, but the big question is which will be the future of e-learning? All educators, parents and students have the question in mind, but not able to respond. To check your imperative to examine trends involved in learning, which has already taken control of our world?
Given the above, it seems imperative that online learning will coexist with other technologies and how to acquire knowledge. And as soon as the low cost PC would be available and broadband penetrate more deeply into particular countries there is scope for developing e-learning will improve.
E-Learning is also interactive. With the growth of e-learning more and more students opt for it, because not have concerns as a teacher of mathematics is broken by the wrong amount, since classes are available to be comfortable in no hurry to arrive late and then standing by waiting approval. increasingly working professionals who are interested in learning eWay due to the flexibility of e-learning offering. Elearning soon a very useful tool to improve skills and achieve promotion in the labor market. Therefore, to summarize, the future of e-learning is the light.
Speaking e-learning and academic bodies such as India, UGC-Infonet. The president of the University Grants Commission (UGC) in 2002 concluded that universities and colleges also can reap the benefits of ICT had reserved for them. The deliberations of the various committees led to the creation of the UGC-Infonet in late 2004. UGC also has joined the crusade from the introduction of e-learning. Fully funded by the UGC, UGC-Infonet provides electronic access to scientific literature available online at all areas of learning in the university sector India.

There are several companies engaged in e-learning in India. Our goal is to provide products of simple tools, the cost e-learning for people.
The raids were carried out in the field of e-learning in the form of Brihaspati, a platform e-learning that developed as open source freeware that ITI Kanpur has developed and used since January 2003 supported by the Ministry of Communications and Technology Information, government. India. Schools use this platform to see the lecture notes, handouts and reference materials on the Intranet to support education in the classroom, benefiting more than 75 universities and institutes all over India, and the list continues. Another project to provide web-based training is the National Educational Technology (NPTEL), which is funded by the Department of Human Resources Development (MHRD) and was designed in 1999 to open the way for the introduction of multimedia and Web technologies to enhance learning basic science and engineering concepts, was released in September 2006.

Interestingly, consistency the main advantage is that e-learning offers. e-learning is its own pace, and learning occurs at a rate of learning. The content may be repeated until it is understood by the student. It can be convincing and attractive, multimedia, and the student can give multiple learning paths according to their needs.

However, a problem with the e-learning in India is the lack of course content, especially outside the traditional areas of intervention of computer education, English language content and type of tutorial courses. There will be a strong demand for people who can develop multilingual courses addressing various issues. Gartner indicates that one of the first 10 positions of the Global 1000 enterprises of the future will be to an online learning design.

infrastructure has been established for the production of video-based educational materials by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Bangalore-based Indian Institutes of Science (IIS) and Institutes Technical Teacher Training (TTTI). Gyan Darshan, which was released January 26, 2000, as an exclusive channel television Doordarshan for higher education provide quality distance education can be considered as an effective effort in India.
At the institutional level many institutions, mostly private now entered in online distance education and offers many spoke Varsity NIIT training 500,000 students per year in 33 countries. One school of Management Calcutta leader IIM world, among others, have signed a strategic alliance with NIIT, to offer leadership development programs through virtual classrooms. The researchers, academics, teachers and students around the world are excited about embracing blogs (web logs). Tamil Nadu capital Chennai, a southern state in India has allowed bloggers conference held at Tidel Park. IGNOU CDAC and organizations are two of the most esteemed India in their respective fields, who have held conferences in the field of e-learning. Education is in line to enter as the biggest challenge for distance education in the near future.
Change is a painful process and is opposed by most organizations, but the need is time management effective change of the leaders of the institutes of higher education, found in e-Learning.

Top educational institutions in India who intend to participate in e-learning should take a lesson from this and offered to go first and education strategy organizational change communication where actors must be informed of how the change will affect.

Most states that direct Indian universities need an IT / ICT policy of yours.

The government should promote the learning culture, and e-Learning has become an issue policy. The government must recognize the e-learning industry as a separate forum and not treat it as part of the IT enabled services or subsector of the IT industry. One example is the Australian government's support for the promotion of e-learning. The government has succeeded in increasing the use of e-learning industry in the workplace.

Schools and Universities taking eLearning road is still a very small fraction of the total. Furthermore, the transition from distance education for learning line moves at snail's pace. Universities are too slow to make a significant improvement in the quality and employability of their courses. With e-Learning, they have a chance to improve the quality and quantity.
Industry unlike the West, India, equals big business and commercial houses have been slow to adapt to e-Learning.

With the tremendous explosion using the Web as a platform for knowledge exchange and delivery, e-Learning will be more a rule than the exception. It is for us all to move process. Together, we must create an e-Learning infrastructure that is sustainable and continues to transform learning, education and training.

Nothing can replace the traditional classroom, but the e-learning can complete the process and help reach the masses.

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About the Author

Sadaket Malik is a freelance columnist based in Jammu and Kashmir reporting from Bhalessa Doda J&K India and can be contacted at sadaketmalik@rediffmail.com

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