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Tuesday, Jul 13, 2004
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IT Training Persistent Systems to offer distance education in IT Our Bureau
Pune , July 12 THE Pune-based Persistent Systems Pvt Ltd (PSPL) is the next one to join the bandwagon of reaching out to the IT professionals through distance education programme of the IIT Mumbai. This is the 12th centre in the country offering the course, Prof M.U. Deshpande, in-charge of the distance education programme, told newspersons here on Monday. He said VJTI of Mumbai, a college in Jalgaon in Maharashtra and one more in Ahmedabad are also planning to join this bandwagon. Presently, the Sinhagad Technical Education Society is offering this course for its students in Pune and Mahindra British Telecom for its employees. PSPL would be offering the course to the public as also to its employees, Mr Anand Deshpande, Chairman and Managing Director of PSPL, said. Prof Deshpande said each course is offered through video-broadcast lectures received through VSAT or leased line. The broadcast is through Ku-band satellite transmission to a large number of registered remote centres (RCs) at pre-determined time slots, synchronously. Each RC projects the lecture on a screen for up to 50 participants guided by a local course coordinator. He said that when participants at a remote centre want to ask question, the local course coordinator communicates it to the instructor by pushing a button (equivalent to a hand going up in the real classroom). The local course coordinator also selects one of the participants (when more than one participant has a question) to ask the questions if the instructor decides to take it from that centre. This might happen at a number of locations simultaneously, he said. Prof Deshpande said the course, which went live in March 2002, has so far seen 1,200 students taking up the semester courses and close to 2,000 participants for the one or two-day lectures. The PSPL semester is expected to begin on July 28 and would offer students seven courses, which includes specialised areas such as embedded system, networks, etc. The course duration is 15 weeks and the fee structure would be about Rs 10,000 per course per semester. Depending on whether the student opted for credit or audit mode, the fee structure would vary, he said. Plans are also afoot to start giving these facilities to the Asian region through Internet, which is expected to go live in November this year, he added.
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