Zee Interactive launches I-Cell

MUMBAI: Zee Interactive Learning Systems (ZILS) launched I-Cell with Livewire

technology-India’s first broadband-based interactive learning technology in

Mumbai. Zee Network director, R K Singh, inaugurated the service.

ZILS president and CEO, Uma Ganesh said that the V-SAT based interactive

systems was yet another initiative of ZILS to achieve its vision of delivering

unique learning experience through technology to multitudes of Indians. Livewire

technology would enable students in Gangtok or Kanyakumari to sit before a

computer at his neighborhood Zee Livewire center and interact with professional,

experts and professors imparting knowledge from Livewire studio- live, in real

time. His or her classmates would be fellow students studying at other far-flung

corners of the country-in a virtual classroom.

Initially around thirty locations in the states such as Delhi, Maharashtra,

Punjab Orissa, Bihar and Kolkata amongst few others would act as Zee Livewire

centers. Uma Ganesh says that around 100,000 students would be able to benefit

by this technology in the first phase.

According to director, Learning Center, Dilip Mahapatra, I-Cell would also be

used to provide distant education programs of leading Universities in the

country. "This will transform the correspondence courses into learning

actively, facilitated by expert faculty in the closed subject," he

revealed.

The fees of ZILS Interactive distance learning system have been structured to

make it affordable for the students, he explained. The project, which had an

initial investment of Rs15 crore, will see an additional investment of Rs 100

crore, were expected to be invested in the project.