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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Virtual varsities will hasten learning: Experts - Silicon India
By taking a major chunk of learning on to the electronic mode through virtual universities, it will be possible to reach out education across the country bypassing infrastructure bottlenecks, experts at a national meet on eLearning opined. The Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), H.P. Dikshit, said India is faced with the challenge of educating a large mass of people. Mentioning about a major eLearning initiative, Dikshit said a pilot project has been approved in July to leverage the infrastructure of the Edusat. This project would host 1,200 terminals in primary schools in select parts of the country. Given the magnitude of the project, even the pilot project is pretty big.
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