DU to launch virtual classroom by month-end
By Sonia Sarkar, TNN |
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NEW DELHI: Delhi University���s (DU) latest e-link to be set up by the month-end will enable teachers to create a virtual classroom with the help of online campus network. So now, a teacher sitting in North Campus can give lessons to more than 50,000 students in 71 colleges at a time.
The two-way interactive process between teachers and students will be made possible with the help of an LCD projector, cameras and an audio system. Students will be given e-slates to take down notes and can also ask questions. Cameras fixed at all ends would also enable eye-to-eye contact between teachers and students giving a real feel to the virtual classroom.
������Our aim is to make the university more accessible. The existing system has been designed to exclude a large number of stakeholders, but here is a chance to include all at a time. There will be a harmonious link between all components of this virtual classroom to give it a feel of a conventional classroom,������ said Dinesh Singh, director of South Campus, who has initiated the move.
������I have gone through the trial of the system where I interacted with a teacher in North Campus while sitting in South Campus. The quality of teaching is almost undiluted and gives a feeling of physical presence of the teacher,������ said Singh.
Initially, this would start with the psychology department where teachers from North Campus will interact with students in South Campus. Later, it will be extended to other colleges too.
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For those who miss a class, there is an option to refer to the missed lessons through the university website. ������The interactive process will be recorded and put on the website to ensure that students can always refer to it even if they miss a class,������ said Singh. To avail the e-teaching facility, colleges need to spend only a few lakhs to build a sound-proof studio with necessary equipments. DU officials are hopeful the new system would attract more and more colleges. ������Teachers will be attracted to it once we demonstrate the use to them,������ added Singh.
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