Virtual Class Room With Xlri.

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Posted on 11 Aug 2005 # UNI

Reliance Inf tie-up with XLRI for e-learning management course

Kolkata: Anil Ambani's Reliance WebWorld, an arm of Reliance Infocom, today announced a tie-up with XLRI-Jamshedupur, one of the country's premier management institues for launching e-learning course on logistics supply chain management through virtual class room platform for the first time in Asia.

Targetting high-potential mid-career managers, the 14-month certificate course would be available in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune through Reliance WebWorld outlets, company's CEO Sarup Choudhury said.

He said the venture was a part of Reliance WebWorld's ongoing drive to add value to its broadband network service, at present having a four-lakh strong membership base. The company would shortly go for a different kind of tie-up, the web marketing organisation was at present holding talks with several reputed universities both in the cournty and abroad for launching various e-learning courses, he said.

Explaining the mode of the virtual class room platform, Mr Choudhury said the professor would use the WebWorld's state-of-the-art video conferencing facility to reach out to the student community across locations on a real time basis. Students can not only see and hear the professor live as they would in real class room, they can also interact with the teacher and fellow students at other locations through a two-way video conferencing unlike the system in the past.

''This is for the first time in Asia that such a course is being launched through virtual class room platform,'' he said.

Mr.Choudhury said the e-learning course would benefit a large number of aspirants, who despite being capable and good, could not find accommodation in class room course.

The structure of the course had been developed based on a comprehensive study conducted by XLRI involving 3,000 working supply chain professionals across the seven cities and found that 85 per cent of them preferred a course on the business aspects of logisitcs and supply chain management, XLRI Director Father N Casimir Raj SJ said.

''Our tie-up with RWW to offer PGCLSCM on the Real Broadband platform will take the management training expertise of our faculty to several virtual class rooms across India. This programme is a part of XLRI's larger plans to upskill corporate India by offering premium programmes right at the doorstep,'' he said.

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Thats great news for management students.... getting a chance to study in XLRI from ur home town...