e-learning

It's been a long time since I wrote in IT-Vidya.

Today, I write again to present a portal that I envision to be the world's largest repository of structured E-Learning.

Welcome to http://www.thelearningworld.com

The basic aim of thelearningworld.com is to provide the world with an extremely huge repository of structured, instructor driven, interactive eLearning, across expertise areas, subjects, topics and capabilities.

As e-learning sweeps the marketplace and as more and more corporates concentrate on both the subjective as well as objective aspects of e-learning, some important trends are emerging.

More sophisticated, qualitative content not only streamlines processes,but also helps in delivering a more structured approach to the learning paradigm.

The learning-by-doing approach to learning eliminates the gap between theoretical classroom-based study and hands on practice in real life situations.Similarly,problem based learning ensures relevance of skills and expertise gained.

Parag Shah, presented this very good presentation on how web 2.0 is changing our knowledge needs and learning methods.

He had the following to say

Learning has changed significantly in the past few years as the knowledge needs of people and tools available to them have changed.

Learning Before:

* Most learning happened in the classroom
* The knowledge was sufficient for decades with very little upgrading

While I was browsing for latest developments in ELearning, I just came across the new management service from Harvard Business School for Management Development.

“The HBR IdeaCast™ is a free biweekly podcast featuring breakthrough management ideas and commentary from the editors and authors of Harvard Business School Publishing.”

Click the hyperlink to know the details of

Dear Colleagues,

I feel immensely pleased in making “Manthan-AIF Award 2006 for Best e-Content Practices” public.

Manthan-AIF Award 2006 (www.manthanaward.com) is now open for nominations.

As many of you are aware by now and after going through the details of 2005 Manthan Awardees at www.manthanaward.com, you must have come to know that many awardees have gone international, and received wide spread recognition through various platforms like the World Summit Award (WSA), World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and thereby affected a multiplier impact in the process. My sincere acknowledgement goes to the media fraternity in carrying forward the names of the Manthan Awardees and their diligent works across the length and breadth of the country and the world.

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.”