E-learning: An Overview

In today's world, not only are the existing colleges and universities interested in getting in to the world of e-learning, but also the scalable business firms are trying to make a mark in the education society. Some of the private firms like Apollo Group, Kaplan and BPP are already achieving a lot of success in this field of education. Kaplan, a wide name is education, is a company which is circulates the newspaper called "Washington Post." BPP which is known as its rival has made a deal with the British Universities such that the students registered for the professional courses will be able to achieve the degrees from the Boston Post-Graduate University.

The world's 16 top rating universities have mutually decided to form a $ 50 Million business enterprise Universitas-21 Global. This will be an online school for students looking forward to do business MBA. This enterprise has high goals to grab markets of interested students from countries all around the world such as Korea, India, Singapore, China, Malaysia and United Arab Emirates. The figures of the ones already registered are something more than 1000 students looking forward for their graduation program and belonging to 45 different countries. The degree obtainable by the Universitas-21 online will be well appreciated in the business market and the certificate rewarded by this firm stands on some of the top ranks as in the 16 top rated universities which are participating in this firm.

Well if we talk about India, this concept of online education is very much important for the up coming generation for India. But the only concern in implementing this concept throughout India is that the online education is extensively depending on a reliable and high speed Internet connection. Thus, as a part of the development of education centers in India, even this is really important to connect the cities with a high bandwidth Internet connectivity. Due to a large number of cities are already up coming with the suitable high speed internet network though cyber cafes, even the idea of E-education especially at the upper levels must be taken seriously. Not many universities in India make use of internet as a tool for improving the administration.

United States of America not stands as the leader in the field of E-Education. Phoenix, the principal university for providing the online education has the highest amount of the on-line subscribers enrolled. In fact, Phoenix became the first candidate to provide an online degree way back in starting of the 1990s. Now it uses internet to integrate all it's educational matters.

In addition to the present courses, E-Education is very successful already in the Western Countries. Beaconsfield happens to be a shopping mall situated in UK which has set up Explore Centers for Learning. While the mums are busy shopping and surfing, the age group in the 5 to 14 range can surf the sites for new online courses and details. We can even find some of the websites which offer tuition services in UK, on which we can find above 270 tutors sharing their knowledge at a charge of £ 15 to £30 every hour. This concept of e-tutoring or internet based training or even known as online tutor is also wide spreading through out India. A Bangalore based company Tutor Vista is responsible for providing teachers from India who can help teaching Biology, Physics, Maths, Chemistry, English to students of 3rd to 12th Grade in US and UK at half the prices the teachers expect there. In case of online education, the sessions are held and made interactive by using micro phones and head phones, something that we can call as a conference.

The concept of E-Education has infiltrated not only the college and universities, but has also made it's mark to the school level of teaching. But the education strategies in India clearly miss out on taking any kind of advantage from this wonderful technology in the world of education. E-Education is not only a wonderful way of learning but is also very convenient, and finally is not very expensive too. The students are not forced to leave their current employment just to attend full time lectures if they are engaged in some profession. Thus, they can learn while they earn.

The infrastructure of this kind of E-Education which includes internet schools with online programs must be developed immediately in India. But with the present weak infrastructure of internet in India, this seems no less than a challenge. To implement this, steps must be taken at all levels to bring people close to the internet. This kind of education is the future, and every country should be affirmative in making progress in this field, as it's even important for the country's growth.