DU Launches New E-Learning Online Portal

New Delhi: To enable Information and Communications Technology (ICT) based educationin the varsity, Delhi University (DU) has introduced e-classes for its students, which have been uploaded on its online portal.

A one-day workshop on the launch of the e-classes was held recently in which almost 40 teachers from various colleges under the university participated. During the course of the workshop, the teachers present were familiarized about the process of registering on the online portal. 

These teachers would be called DU e-learning portal coordinators and will work as a link between DU's Institute of Life Long Learning (ILLL) and DU colleges. 

DU Vice Chancellor Deepak Pental inaugurated the workshop and spoke at length about the importance of ICT in higher education. "ICT is extremely important in higher education and can help in answering many problems that affect the quality of education that is being imparted in the university," he said.

He further added that the e-classes being started by the varsity would help in empowering teachers to handle the teacher-student interactions in an efficient manner.

Calling the initiative to introduce e-classes the most significant feature of the DUonline portal, ILLL Director A.K. Bakshi said that the interactivity aspect of the e-classes is a new feature that will benefit both students as well as teachers. 

He explained that as teachers have only 50-55 minutes to teach per class, several doubts ands questions which students might have remain unanswered. The online e-classes will now enable students to ask and clear their doubts and also to hold healthy online discussions which can continue for as long as the students want.

The e-learning portal started by DU has several interactive media features available free of charge in four sections, viz-a-viz, e-lessons, e-labs, e-quizzes and e-lectures. The newly introduced e-classes would only be available to DU students who have joined the portal by contacting their e-learning portal coordinator. 

The facility to join the portals would also be made available to teachers and students from the postgraduate department.

Advantages of Online Learning

Online training can considerably decrease the cost of travel, helps you to increase consistency and can make updates lot easier then you thought. It has various positives that make it a wonderful asset. However, traditional classroom training methods have their own importance. In the traditional class room training you can personal interact with the trainer, build a healthy networking with other participants, and can make your learning a very entertaining and enjoying. How many times you gone to a website or opened a document and been stunned to see the amount of content and information. Your mind just can’t take that and get turns off immediately. In the next minute, you close the document or quickly move to another page after reading few paragraphs. The reason is that you take too much of stress on your mind by setting up tough goals that can not be meet at the start of online training courses. Choose the topic you enjoy and start with small lessons.

HOW IT IS BENEFICIAL?

1. Affordable Prices – It has been observed that most of the education training courses are often less expensive compare to the regular degree from university or institute. It is something that you can easily afford and make most of it.
2. Choose the Topics That You Enjoy – You are sharpening your skills in a profession you are familiar with. If you did not enjoy your job, you would not want to make yourself more marketable in it. So, you are more likely to be taking classes on things you enjoy learning about. In return, your retention of the topics will be higher. I think this is one of biggest benefits of education training through the internet.
3. Get the Certifications of Training – Most of online education training courses provides certificates or document after completing the training program successfully. These certificates e.g. an Information Technology certification, can be presented to your current employer. Some employers will surely give you good hike because of your enhanced skills. Online education training should be pursued by every single professional out there. Everyone can benefit from sharpening their professional skills. Without continuing your education, you could lose your position, be demoted.