e-Education in India

 Computer education facilities should be set up in rural areas by identifying secondary schools in development blocks in the country. All schools with computer education facilities should have Internet connectivity so that vast educational resources already available and to be developed by schools themselves could be shared amongst them.

At different level, government is making efforts to provide e-education. The Melur Taluk in Madurai district would probably be the first one in the country where e-education would take off soon in seven schools through the project “Sustained Access to Rural India”. Another story published shows the interest of children in e-education. The kids have taken to computers easily. They want these classes to go on and on,” says a teacher. Some children walk barefoot up to 15 km for their share of interactive learning. According to M. Sasikumar, eLearning is still lagging behind in India. It needs to pick up, if education needs to have far reaching implications at the macro level in the country. In India, the problem is that e-Education and ‘virtual university’ has been restricted to things like video conferencing.

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The Gyandoot Samiti, with the help from Member of Parliament, has established 34 kiosks at the high schools and higher secondary schools.

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Recently government launched a computerization programme ‘Vidya Vahini’ proposing to connect 60,000 government–funded senior secondary schools through Internet and Intranet. The programme would provide the schools with computer labs to facilitate IT education, access to Internet, online library, academic services, web broadcast and e-learning.

A software named “Bharatvidya” was developed, which is an NCERT curriculum specific, multimedia based, computer-aided teaching software. It will be helpful in explaining any concept with visual effects into classrooms. The software is equipped with pictorial representations of the academic curriculum of NCERT, which is covering subjects like Science, Social Studies and Mathematics for classes V-IX. It is running in almost 84 schools in 36 cities across the country. In Uttar Pradesh, e-learning was intended to start and it was funded by central govt. technology based learning process was made possible through the Education through Internet (ERNET) facility. For this project principal and five teachers per schools have been trained. The government will spend Rs 12,000 crore in next four years on e-governance and to take e-learning to schools in every district across the country. The government will launch a pilot project to take e-learning to 20 schools in the country spread over seven districts.

According to a report, India’s Internet subscriber base stood at 35 lakh on March 2003, up from 32.39 lakh in the year-ago period. It was only 2.3 lakh in March 1993. It is a good sign as far as Internet boom in the country is concerned adds the IT experts in New Delhi.

The Royal Dutch Shell Group of companies, the second largest energy conglomerate in the world, has firmed up plans to enter the Indian education sector in a big way. The company proposes to invest approximately Rs 87.5 crore ($18 million) as part of the diversification of its Indian operations in this segment. The company has applied to the Foreign Investment Promotion Board for permission to undertake Internet-based training activities for primary school students in the country through the subsidiary route. The company proposes to be engaged in the development, marketing and delivery of an integrated Internet-based e-learning solution, which will include content, tools and equipment, catering to primary schools. Another group, LearningMate, a division of education technology and e-learning company, Educomp Datamatics, has forged a strategic partnership with Blackboard Inc., the leading global software infrastructure company for e-education. Under the agreement, Educomp will distribute Blackboard e-education solutions in India.

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