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.