editorial
Education eResources’ Guide 2010 Technology is going places! The e-resource providers’ community wokring in field of education have enabled a large number of audience in the education domain to avail e-services. The resources as services has benefited large number of students, teachers and professionals to cover leaps and bounds in terms of advancements. The technology community has brought with it a huge wave of innovations that has empowered the youth of our country to train themselves as skilled workers to build India as a knowledge economy. The ICT tools, equipments and services are being produced and supplied at a large scale not only in India, but also abroad. With the flood of scattered information in education sector, it is indeed crucial that the right resources are tapped by the educational institutions. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to provide the information in a systematic way to the people who want to benefit from the e-resources in the education sector. This will help the beneficiaries to know about both the existing technology and the new innovations. With a continous increase in number of education e-service providers in the country, the second edition of Resource Guide 2010, aims to bring to its readers an overview of the e-resrouces available to disseminators of education and the receivers of education. The issue includes a brief overview on ICT tools and equipments, e-content, learning laboratories and issues of online testing. This edition of Resource Guide 2010 attempts to provide the education technology users with a comprehensive database of e-service and tool entrepreneurs, to enable the educational institutions and the decision makers to reap maximum benefits from the ICT tools. The guide enables latter to read and chose the products that are best suited to their respective institutions to disseminate benefit to students at all levels – school education, higher education and vocational training centres.
Dr. Ravi Gupta Editor-in-Chief Ravi.Gupta@digitallearning.in
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digital LEARNING
june 2010
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