DU classes to go online

Updated on: Thursday, June 18, 2009

New Delhi: Students failing to get admission in their college of choice in the capital need not lose heart. The Delhi University is now working on a project to provide video-graphed lectures of teachers from several colleges on-line.

For the purpose, the DU is setting up a modern studio at its Institute of Life Long Learning (ILL), where lectures of popular teachers and experts of various disciplines will be recorded and put on its portal.

"We are getting recorded the lectures of the best of our teachers from all the colleges so that the students can learn from them on-line no matter in what college they are enrolled," ILL Director A K Bakshi said.

The project has been basically initiated under the 'Pan-African e-Network Project', commissioned by the Ministry of External Affairs of India in February this year.

"Under the Rs 542.90 crore Pan-African project, we had been asked by the External Affairs Ministry to develop e-content, including the multimedia material for various disciplines to be provided to the African students," he said.

He said the video-graphed lectures are being developed to beam them live through satellite to the African nations so that they can get a genuine class-like atmosphere there while pursuing a DU programme without moving out of their countries.

"But once they are ready, these lectures will also be available for our students too who can learn from them by just logging on to our web portal," Bakshi said.

The department has already identified the teachers in this regard and has asked them to submit their manuscripts for such lectures.

"We want to develop quality lectures with high conceptual clarity. Therefore, we have asked teachers to first submit their manuscripts that would be shortlisted for final recording," Bakshi said.

The studio for the recording of these lectures is at the final stage of its construction and all the equipment have already been provided by the Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL), which is implementing the project.

"We are expecting to put at least some of these lectures as early as July this year," he said.

Based on former president A P J Abdul Kalam's vision of connecting India with all 53 countries of the African Union for sharing India's expertise in education and health care, the project has tied up several premier institutes of India, including Delhi University to make available quality e-content and multimedia educational material to them.

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