editorial
Saluting Education Leaders
Advisory Board Prof. Asha Kanwar, Vice President, Commonwealth of Learning Dr. Jyrki Pulkkinen, CEO, Global eSchools & Communities Initiative (GeSCI) Shri Subhash C Khuntia, Joint Secretary, Department School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India Prof. V N Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice Chancellor, Indira GandhiI National Open University (IGNOU) President: Dr. M P Narayanan Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Ravi Gupta Managing Editor: Shubhendu Parth VP - Strategy: Pravin Prashant Editorial Team: Dr. Prachi Shirur, Dr. Rajeshree Dutta Kumar, Divya Chawla, Sheena Joseph, Yukti Pahwa, Pratap Vikram Singh Sales & Marketing Team: Debabrata Ray, Arpan Dasgupta, Bharat Kumar Jaiswal, Anuj Agarwal, Fahimul Haque (Mobile: +91-9873277808), Rakesh Ranjan (sales@elets.in) Subscription & Circulation: Gunjan Singh Mobile: +91-9718289123 (subscription@elets.in) Graphic Design Team: Bishwajeet Kumar Singh, Om Prakash Thakur, Shyam Kishore Web Development Team: Zia Salahuddin, Amit Pal, Sandhya Giri, Anil Kumar IT Team: Mukesh Sharma
Over a period of six growing years, digitalLEARNING has brought to its readers various spices and essence of education in the environment of ICT. It has celebrated, acknowledged and applauded the technologies that have been inducted; introspected upon; deliberated and questioned in terms of relevance, quality and accessibility; implemented; reviewed; and discarded or accepted in our daily educational living. We have presented to you issues related to diversity and definite aspects of the field covering dimensions of all educational sectors such as government policies, K12 (school education), higher education, vocational training and skill development, open and distance learning, corporate planning and executions, and civil societies’ participation. We have catered to issues including B Schools, open universities, interactive whiteboards, collaborations (Public Private Partnerships), news updates, events, Right to Education and schooling, upgradation of skill development and vocational training and resource guide, to name a few. The magazine issues have covered, so far, the phenomenal changes, initiatives, achievements, landmarks and engagements that have supported the developmental issues. Amongst the above, we searched for the experts in the field to disseminate the best practices to the readers. It is known that everybody has an opinion, a manner of thinking, experience and way of executing operations. But only those are valued that have already or have the potential of providing value to the society at large. These are the specialists from the areas of K12, higher education, open and distance learning and vocational education. They facilitate capacity building in various areas and deployment knowledge at a large scale. With the above backdrop, we bring to you the 6th Anniversary issue of digitalLEARNING Magazine in salute to the leaders who have revolutionised the field of education and technology, integrating the both to form the new age knowledge system which is seeking extension and inclusiveness globally. We hereby, acknowledge all the commendable effort that these leaders, from different walks of life have made for introducing and building a culture of ICT facilitated education amongst the naïve, the youth, the professionals and the experts. As a platform we welcome all the leaders and experts from different fields to come and join us in this initiative of discovering what we had, what we have and what we can inspire for in the future; simultaneously, examining the mistakes of the past, the feedbacks of the present and the motivation gained for the future.
Events: Vicky Kalra Editorial & Marketing Correspondence digitalLearning - G-4 Sector 39, NOIDA 201301, India, Phone: +91 120 2502181-85, Fax: +91 120 2500060 Email: info@digitalLearning.in digitalLEARNING is published by Elets Technomedia Pvt. Ltd. in technical collaboration with Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS).
Dr. Ravi Gupta Editor-in-Chief Ravi.Gupta@digitallearning.in
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digital LEARNING january 2011
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