Online educ@tion, the emerging e-wave

Open up the doors — to as many people who care to gain access to it, at whatever moments in their lives, however frequently they choose to knock upon this or that learning door — e-learning.

What is e-learning? Simply put e-learning means using multimedia and the Internet to enable learning. With the evolution of communication and technology, a classroom today, has moved beyond the physical boundaries of a university. E-learning has made distances irrelevant delivering education in real time over the Internet. It has opened up new vistas of knowledge transfer to help hone individual skills. Says Dr Badrul H Khan, an associate professor of the George Washington University, “It will free the learning process from the confines of the classroom as it’s an open, flexible and distributed learning process, or blended e-learning.”

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