A SURVEY PAPER ON: ADROITNESS IN E-CONTENT DEVELOPMENT FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

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National Seminar On "Adroitness in e-Content Development for Higher Education"

Educational systems around the world are under increasing pressure to use the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to teach students the knowledge and skills, they need in the 21st century. To develop a knowledge society, integrating ICT at all levels of education is essential. ELearning is becoming an important tool to further enhancement of an individual. eLearning is not an easy learning but its components have the capacity to deliver simple, responsive and transparent services to student community. Electronic Learning can be seen in education, agriculture, tele-medicine domains where one can interact through computers to get update information.[2] e-Learning serves this purpose in its various forms such as web-based learning, computer-based learning, mobile-based learning, virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. The ultimate aim of e-Content development is to create an information rich society where everyone, irrespective of caste, religion, race, region, gender, etc., are empowered to create, receive, share, and utilize information and knowledge for their economic, social, cultural and political upliftment and development. [3] In the current times, internet bandwidth is playing a key role particularly people living in terrain and remote areas are facing challenges to access internet in their areas. The existing bandwidth needs expansion immediately. Another problem in Indian environment is electricity failures which are causing severe problems when accessing online information. Thus, it is important to know the prospects and challenges of eContent development in Indian context.

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