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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Friday, August 31, 2012
iProf launches Digi Library with free content
NEW DELHI, AUG. 30:
iProf Learning Solutions, a tablet-based education content provider, is taking the concept of e-learning a step ahead with the new Digi Library.
The Digi Library would provide preparation material for competitive exams such as engineering, medical, CAT and IAS, along with course packs for class XI and XII.
However, within the next few weeks the company plans to add course material for all classes starting from nursery to high school.
iProf has secured Rs 22 crore from investment company Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and technology venture capital fund IDG Ventures India.
The content on the library would be available free of cost for students.
Sanjay Purohit, Chief Executive Officer, iProf, said that revenues would be generated from two streams — services and home-delivery of digital content for offline access.
He added that the paid services would include live chat with teachers, virtual classes, drop-box for questions and clarifications and one-on-one mentoring sessions.
“There is something schools, hospitals and retail shops have in common in India. There would never be enough of any of them. That is why leveraging technology for these sectors is so important,” said Sudhir Sethi, Founder Chairman and Managing Director, IDG Ventures India.
He added that there was no question of charging for content as that is not a scalable model, especially since content is available free of cost across the world.
Forty schools across India have already subscribed to the Digi Library, which can be availed by institutions as well as individuals.
Sanjay Purohit said they have seen more demand coming from tier-II and III cities and smaller towns as compared to saturated cities such as Delhi.
He also added that by mid-2013 they would add higher education content on the Library and are in talks with international universities for partnering with content for the same. They are also in talks with Indira Gandhi National Open University for study materials for college-level education. aesha.datta@thehindu.co.in
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Librarian and Assistant Librarian at Global Group of Institutions, Lucknow
Source:- Times Ascent, The Times of India, 13 June 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
LIBRARIAN at Bansal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Canada varsity keen on library partnership with IITs
KOLKATA, APRIL 18:
A Canadian university is moving towards library and research partnerships with two Indian Institutes of Technology.
The University of Alberta (UA) is expecting to share digitised materials in diverse areas such as medicine, engineering and literature with IIT, Ropar, and IIT Roorkee, a university spokesperson told Business Line.
Ms Margaret Law, Director of International Relations with the university libraries, was in India recently.
According to her, the institutions may work out specific ways in which they could share rare copies of digitised materials. “This will be with librarians from the IITs and their Canadian counterparts,” Ms Law said.
She felt the university library needed to support those beyond western perspectives on medicine, engineering, or any other fields.
In her efforts to enhance research capacities at the University of Alberta, she felt the need to build an infrastructure base by helping develop expertise in librarianship and build library collections worldwide.
For example, IIT Ropar offers a course on Canadian literature but have a very limited collection. “We're going to help them build a good Canadian literature collection”, Ms Law said.
IIT, Ropar, in turn will help the Canadian university build a library of Indian traditional medicine. “We have a number of researchers in Canada, who are interested in global health issues and we have a special collection that's specifically focused on indigenous traditions and health practices”.
Source: The Hindu Business Line http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/article3328744.ece
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