C-DAC to develop an e-learning framework for DIT

HYDERABAD: Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is working on a web-based project for the Department of Information and Technology, Government of India. The project envisages providing an e-learning framework based learning management system. "The project is under development as of now and initially we would be providing a web based course for core competencies in software engineering in about three months time," informed, Dr N Sarat Chandra Babu, Program Coordinator and Head C-DAC, Hyderabad.

The institution is designing the e-learning framework in such a way that any kind of course material can be made available to a large number of students via the net. "The idea is to reduce the cost as there will be no need to publish any material as everything will be online and hence the cost will be reduced. We have not yet decided about the duration of the first of its kind course but it will be between two to six months time," he explained.

C-DAC, as a result of its pioneering developments, evolved the Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology (GIST), with a view to extend the benefits of IT to the vast and diversified multilingual population of India. Use of the GIST range of software and hardware products has led to the proliferation of the use of computers and their applications in all major Indian languages, with hundreds of thousand of users countrywide.