E-learning has a greater scope in India

BANGALORE, INDIA: Mindlogicx, a provider in software and product development and services solution, in alliance with D&B, a provider of business intelligence and information solution, today held Universities of India, A knowledge conclave in Bangalore.

The objective of the event was to create a single platform to bring together all the universities and create scope of E-learning India.

The event was well attended by most of the industry veterans from companies such as HP, SUN Microsystems, Mind Tree and as well from various universities such as Anna University Coimbatore, IGNOU, University of Allahabad.

While addressing the welcome note Raj Devireddy, Director, Mindlogicx Infotech Ltd., said, “E-learning plays a big role in many developed countries. However India being well equipped with the infrastructure still lags behind. To develop the e-learning scenario in the country there is a great requirement to create a platform to profile all universities in India.”

By doing so we can address lots issues such as industry- academia tie up, ensuring quality education, and accesses to job opportunities for students etc easily.

“The Early form of education in India was totally oral learning. A revolution was created by printing press which enabled self learning by access of printed books. In the same manner IT cam also bring about a paradigm shift in the education system.” said Kalyan Kumar Baneerjee, senior vice president, Mind Tree Ltd, while speaking at a session on IT enabled education in India, which covered the issue on how IT can be enabled to provide high quality education.

E-learning in education, another session at the event had the panelist discuss on the success and failure of E-learning system in India.

“E-learning can be helpful in using it as a proper way to leverage quality of education as it breaks the barriers in terms of geography, time, quality and competent teachers. E-learning is definitely here to stay but the point to be focused is how can it be optimized and made relevant,” said Kirthi Neelakandan, director, education and research, Sun Microsystems.

E-learning in India, though in its nascent stage, has a very high scope as most of the youngsters are already well aware with technology and prefer Internet to books.

But there are a few barriers such as durability, interoperability, standards, re-usability, connectivity etc.

If enabled effectively, E-learning has a long way ahead. What is your suggestion to make E-learning more effective?.