Electronic learning or e-learning, as it is widely known, is bringing hope to millions who had abandoned the dream of continuing education due to paucity of time and money. It makes learning much more easier as one need not be physically present in the classrooms all the time. E-learning has in fact offered a whole new methodology of teaching and learning that is gaining ground very rapidly. Most institutes across the globe has therefore today started their online education branches. Even corporate houses today are utilizing the various e-learning tools to train their employees. Digital learning has covered the developments related to e-learning extensively. Some such articles are indexed below -
e-Learning for Small Groups: The Diplo Foundation's Experience
Author: Kishan S Rana, Professor Emeritus, Foreign Service Institute, New Delhi
In some circumstances, e-learning is more efficient and economical than traditional learning, or ‘t-learning’. Foreign ministry mid-career training (when most personnels are on assignment abroad ) and other ‘continuing education’ programs, for example, find a natural fit with the Internet. This method also proves less expensive for training locally the locally-engaged staff working in embassies abroad.
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E-Learning Pedagogy
The traditional model of ‘Transmit- Receive’ which when applied to multimedia learning, has so far failed to engage learners in meaningful learning (Scardamalia and Bereiter, 1993). In contrast, this hybrid learning model (Tsoi et al. 2003) for the design of multimedia aims not only to enhance concept learning but also to cater to different learning styles.
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e-Content for e-Learning
Author: Sayed S Kazi, Digital Empowerment Foundation, India
e-Content is the core of any single or multi-media application, whether commercial or not. Practically almost any website, CD, video, or mobile application is built to carry the content to the user or to help the user create his/her own content.
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The e-learning wave in Higher Education
Authors: Indrajit Bhhattacharya, Additional Director, DOEACC & Kunal Sharma, Programme Assistant, DOEACC
Talking of e-Learning and academic bodies in India it is imperative to mention the UGC-INFONET. The chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) in 2002 decided that the universities and colleges should also reap the benefits, which ICT had in store for them.
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Serious Games and e-Learning
Author: David Wortley, Director Serious Games Institute, Coventry University, UK
Serious Games offer learning experiences which engage the user and, through the use of compelling storylines, drama, characterisation and humour encourage learners to persist at learning tasks, experiment with new approaches and develop higher levels of cognitive thinking.
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MKCL’s Online Certification Test for IT Literacy Trainers - Trainers literacy
Author: Vivek Sawant
Managing Director and Co-founder, Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation (MKCL)
Revathi Deulgaonkar Namjoshi
Programe Coordinator and Business Analyst, MKCL
Amit Ranade
Managing Executive, MKCL
Umesh Mathew
Managing Executive, MKCL
MS-CIT is a 132-hour (3 month, part-time) course in IT literacy in English/ Marathi / Hindi medium offered at more than 3000 Authorised Training Centers (ATC's) of MKCL spread over all 35 districts and 358 tehsils of the state spanning urban and rural areas.
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Rapid and Compliant e-Learning Content Development for Corporate
Authors: Srishail Chari, Associate Vice President, Group Manager, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Alok Tiwari, Development Center Manager, Education & Research, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
The reasons of various successful implementations of e-Learning models are many but primarily it's the core value proposition of using technology to learn anytime, anywhere for workforce skill base improvements, enhanced knowledge acquisition and productivity improvement which makes it exceptional and almost irreplaceable. The need of rapid and compliant e-Learning content for quick deployment
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