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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
E-learning: the new wave on education front - India Financial Express
A student in remote Orissa village taking his MBA exams from a Mumbai university using broadband network; American students taking Maths lessons from teachers sitting in New Delhi or people from across the globe doing a crash course on disaster management from Honolulu university. The power of information technology is using learning tools to make it happen anywhere and anytime. Called e-learning, it uses multimedia and internet to enable learning process. While the West, especially the European Union has embarked on e-learning bandwagon to realise the dream of making Europe a knowledge-based economy by 2010, in countries like India it is only the private initiatives which have started, though the concept is catching up, say experts.
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