Offshore E-learning India in India

Education has become integral part of growth of every economy; talking about the developing countries we find they are spending more on education and expanding their knowledge base. In short, I would say centralized IT infrastructure and enterprise wide applications have increased knowledge bandwidth consumption.

With harness of existing and emerging opportunities, learning has become easier and online learning has let overcome distance barrier. In compared to classroom learning online learning is cheaper, easily available and accessible with its rich resources. Money is on longer a hurdle, spending less you can learn more; many institutions these days are offering online education and degrees. Dipstick survey shows that worldwide industry of e-learning is worth 38 billion euros. E-learning i.e. Electronics Learning is computer enhanced learning that helps you enhance quality of your education by providing more resources online and broadens your knowledge base. Consulting, content, technologies, services and support are major e-learning sectors.

With flash and multimedia applications penetrating the websphere, dynamic websites offer latest educational updates and tools; also online examinations are easily conducted and managed. E-learning has also provided breakthrough for online learning by imparting knowledge in more simplified and interactive manner using videos for teaching. Quality of education has also improved a lot and thereby economic conditions of developing nations are also improving. As many institutions are offering online learning courses at cheaper rate, online learning has become way of life for educated class to quench knowledge thirst. E-learning helps you gain higher education from your desired place, no time and geographic barrier; just your PC and internet and start learning.

Distance learning has become more agile as different technologies are used with e-learning. Distance learning and face-to-face learning both taken together provide a blend in learning technology. Mixed learning style has provided more flexibility and exposure to learners. For higher education Virtual and Managed learning Environment are provided to manage all aspects of online course through a consistent user interface throughout the network. Many online institutions have started offering academic degree online, providing online support, and online study materials/tutorials, online text books to purchase, online registration, online examination, online forms, online counseling and also at times face-to-face learning.

E-learning provides the flexibility to learn from any place if you have internet access available, there is no time constraint on e-classes, learner can make asynchronous access and no commutation cost is incurred here. Initial development cost is high but it decrease exponentially with increase in number of learners. Major pitfall is that students do not get chance for face-to-face interaction; result is poor in case of collaborative work.

Many technologies are used in e-learning, these technologies are broadly divided into 2 groups: synchronous (exchange of information at the same point of time with other participants, e.g. online chat) and asynchronous (independent of participants at a particular time, e.g. blogs, forums).

E-learning services include CBL (Computer based Learning for learning using computer), CBT (Computer Based Training for training people to use computer applications), WBL (Web Based Training on internet using interactive methods like bulletin boards, videoconferencing).

In short, I would say that Internet is the best repository of online data and funneling its resources to different channels with Also, e-learning extracting most of it and distributing it in more interactive and usable form. Online Education, Online degree, virtual universities, traditional universities, are synonymous with e-learning.

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