elearning is gradually getting its due globally and especially here in India. Young working professionals are turning to elearning to gain access to courses in their spare time. This has become essential in today’s ever so competitive world!
There are plethora of websites conducting online courses and assessments. For example, the Indiatimes group has introduced the Mindscape test center where one can appear for mock IIT-JEE exams online for making self-assessment.
In fact, from this year onwards, the Common Admission Test (CAT) is going online. This will allow more students to be able to take the exam and enable faster processing. It will also help students to apply to colleges using CAT scores in a convenient manner. Top educational institutes like IIM’s, Symbiosis have started their MBA programs, which are based on e-learning in some form or the other. IIMs have tied up with NIIT to offer short duration programs in a synchronous fashion through NIIT Imperia. McGraw Hill Education, a primary educational publisher, recently launched its e-learning section, for IIT, CAT and AIEEE aspirants.
NIIT’s e-learning websites www.niit.com and Hyperlessons (for IT Certification) providing an upper hand to IT Professionals to survive in this recession period. Hyperlessons.com is an eLearning initiative by NIIT to provide convenient, personalized and affordable training courses and programs for Career Certifications to students and working professionals. NIIT’s e-learning initiative has 80,000 registered members and Thadani expects this to go up by at least 100 per cent by end of the year.
According to Vijay Thadani, CEO NIIT, “In the past six months, there has been a significant change in economic environment. Since organizations are looking to cut costs, they prefer to draft their training modules using e-learning, as it is cost-effective. This has resulted in a spurt of professionals logging on to education web sites to upgrade themselves.”
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