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Outlook Industry & Economy - Education Polycom eyes growth via learning tie-ups According to Credit Suisse, the country has about six million qualified teachers for a targeted education market of 460 million. Bindu D. Menon New Delhi, July 13 US-based company Polycom has tied up with various State-sponsored tele-education initiatives in India. “Our vision is to enable people to connect anytime, any place and with any device, in a virtual experience as natural as being there. Tele-education has been gaining momentum worldwide and it is only a matter of time when India will opt for it in a big way,” Mr Russ G. Colbert Jr, Polycom’s Global Education Market Director told Business Line. He said the billion-dollar company is looking to reach out to small and medium businesses with its range of video and audio customer premise equipment. Noting that the e-learning market in India is estimated to be about $3 million, with a growth of 17-18 per cent annually, Mr Colbert said the ‘virtual classrooms’ will provide the answer to the paucity of trained teachers in India. According to financial services major Credit Suisse, the country has about six million qualified teachers for a targeted education market of 460 million people aged between five and 24 years. This means a teacher to student ratio of 1:75, way below the international average of 1:20. “Technological innovations have brought about a tremendous change in the whole education process. It has led to a paradigm shift from teacher-based education to a learner-based education system. The emphasis is now more on the self-learning process,” he added. Polycom currently has tie-ups with seven States for deploying tele-education through a State-wide area network scheme. India contributes as much as 15 per cent to the global turnover. The company also has a research and development unit in Hyderabad for voice Internet protocol technology. More Stories on : Outlook | Education | IT Training
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