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`e-learning helps strengthen education'

Staff Reporter

NAMAKKAL: The Union Government is encouraging e-learning particularly to benefit the people in rural areas, Director of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) R. Rajalakshmi said.

She was delivering the keynote address at the inaugural of the two-day International Conference on e-learning organised jointly by the PGP College of Engineering and Technology (PGPCET) and the University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic, and supported by the STPI here on Tuesday.

She said that the Government was keen on providing computer literacy to the rural people. Already countries such as Singapore, Japan and Indonesia were making a lot of progress in e-learning.

Advantages

Among other advantages, e-learning was an `anywhere, anytime and anyone learning.' It would help strengthen education in the country, she added.

Head of the Institute of Lifelong Learning, University of West Bohemia, Dr. Ing. Jan Han inaugurated the conference and explained e-learning practices in Czech Republic.

Chairman of the PGP Educational Institutions Palani G. Periasamy stressed that the country had to modernise learning methods. For instance, there was shortage of trained and qualified faculty in Information Technology and Computer disciplines. Adopting e-learning would be useful to overcome this, he said.

Professor P. Venkatram from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, spoke on the ethical aspects of e-learning. Vice Dean, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, Petra Poulova, released a souvenir of the conference.

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