E-learning company Hurix Systems gets $5 mn from Helion

Seguimos con los procesos de compras….esta vez India uno de los mercados que llaman «emergentes» y que más temprano que tarde será de los dominantes.

Por cierto, me pregunto por qué les cuesta tanto trabajo a los periódicos en línea colocar enlaces…no se han enterado que internet si es algo es hipervínculo? y que los periódicos electrónicos que sigan creyendo que la red es lo mismo que el papel poco a poco serán abandonados por los lectores asiduos de la red… Así que he colocado algunos enlaces a los inicios de la noticia. 😉

This is Helion’s eleventh investment since it announced a $140 million India-focused fund in August 2006

Namitha Jagadeesh

Mumbai: Mumbai-based e-learning and publishing services company Hurix Systems Pvt. Ltd has received second round funding of $5.1 million (Rs20.2 crore) from Bangalore-based venture capital firm Helion Venture Partners. This is Helion’s eleventh investment since it announced a $140 million India-focused fund in August 2006.

Eyeing growth: Helion Venture managing director Kanwaljit Singh.

“Both the e-learning and the publishing services sectors are growing very fast, and Hurix covers both ends of the spectrum,” says Kanwaljit Singh, managing director, Helion Venture Partners. Singh, along with Natarajan Ranganathan, CFO at Helion, will join Hurix’s board. Hurix had received funding of Rs5 crore at the inception stage from Kotak Mahindra Venture Capital Fund, the VC arm of Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd. “The first round was undercapitalized for our current growth rate. The fresh capital will be used to fund our expansion into new markets,” says Subrat Mohanty, CEO, Hurix Systems.(leer más…)

Fuente: [livemint.com]

Get instruction in e-learning

Do you have a keen interest in reading, a flair for writing, strong research skills and a good team spirit? If yes, you have the makings of a fine instructional designer, writes Ali Asger Y. Shaiwalla

Companies are going the e-learning way to meet their geographically dispersed training and communication needs—all to seize business opportunities before and better than their competitors.

E-learning in India has come of age and it has become a favorite e-learning outsourcing destination for various global giants, the factors being professional competence in the English language, competitively priced human resources and business benefits offered by the government.

E-learning is fast becoming the preferred mode of content delivery. According to IDC forecasts, the e-learning market, which was about $7 billion in 2004, is likely to witness an exponential growth and touch the $28 billion mark by 2008. The global market for corporate e-learning will grow nearly 30 per cent compounded yearly over the next four years.

Advantage India

Rapid globalisation trends enabled by rich information technology present new lucrative careers—career options beyond engineering, medicine, civil services and law have emerged. Jobs like Instructional Designers, Course Developers, Content Creators, Course Writers, Course Reviewers, Graphic Designers, Authoring Tool Experts and Visualisers are catching the limelight, offering excellent professional career paths.(leer más…)

Fuente: [the tribune India]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, e-learning en prensa

Cambridge College to launch e-learning in India by Joy Mazzola

Center will train workforce in management practices
By Joy Mazzola

	Photo courtesy of CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE Cambridge College (shown above) will launch a center in Mumbai in summer 2007.They will begin with 30 students and hope to increase to 200 in one year.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cambridge College’s name might indicate to some that it is a local institution. Not so — the college has satellite schools as far away as Ontario and San Juan. And now they plan to expand even farther.

“India has great potential to be the next superpower in the world,” said Nishikant Sonwalkar, vice president of the Center for Adaptive Learning and Programs at Cambridge College. Sonwalkar and college president, Mahesh Sharma, are currently in the process of opening a school in Mumbai. The two have made a number of trips to India to lay the groundwork for the project. The idea is to provide the opportunity for higher education to the workforce there, plying them with the skills needed to join the ever-growing international business world.

Sonwalkar

Starting an educational center in Mumbai fits very well with the vision and mission of Cambridge College,” said Sonwalkar. That mission is to “to provide academically excellent, time-efficient and cost-effective higher education for a diverse population of working adults for whom those opportunities may have been limited or denied.” Being from India themselves, Sonwalkar and Sharma know how great the need is in that country.(leer más…)

Fuente: [India new england]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, India, web 2.0,
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EMPOWERING DISABLES THROUGH E-LEARNING

Aquí tenéis un extracto del post EMPOWERING DISABLES THROUGH E-LEARNING del blog CYBER LAW FORUM,desde la India.

Name:PRAVEEN DALAL

Location:Delhi, Delhi, India

I am an Arbitrator, Consultant and Advocate, practicing at Delhi High Court and Supreme Court

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has tremendous potential for providing a sound economic growth of a nation. The same can be a reality if we appreciate, accept and utilise ICT for the common betterment of people at large rather than acquiring the mere tag of a technologically advanced State. The correct approach is to adjust ICT as per the requirements and capabilities of people rather than adopting the reverse. In the Indian context, e-governance and e-commerce must be in conformity with the socio-economic conditions existing in India. One such socio-economic requirement of India is to adapt, utilise and apply ICT for the betterment of person with disabilities. ICT must be indigenously developed and should be Indianised and localised before putting it in use for people with disability.

I. Introduction

India is a welfare State and this mandates accommodation of all within the educational, occupational and entrepreneurial infrastructure. The contemporary society relies upon ICT for various societal activities. Though there are many indicators for measuring the strengths and weaknesses of an economy, but the ICT strategy of a nation is very crucial to put it on a global map. (…)

II. E-learning in India

E-learning is an all-encompassing term generally used to refer to computer-enhanced learning, although it is often extended to include the use of mobile technologies such as PDAs and MP3 players. It may include the use of web-based teaching materials and hypermedia in general, multimedia CD-ROMs or web sites, discussion boards, collaborative software, e-mail, blogs, wikis, computer aided assessment, educational animation, simulations, games, learning management software, electronic voting systems and more, with possibly a combination of different methods being used.[4] E-learning falls into four categories, from the very basic to the very advanced.[5] The categories are:

(a) Knowledge databases,
(b) Online support,
(c) Asynchronous training,[6] and
(d) Synchronous training.[7]
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Fuente: [ CYBER LAW FORUM]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, blog, web 2.0