EDITORIAL
Ushering Change In The Community

COVER STORY
ignou associate degree programme: for an educated and skilled
workforce

IN CONVERSATION
Dr L atha Pi llai, P ro-Vi ce Ch ancellor, IGNOU

PERSPECTIVE
empowering women through open and distance education
Dr. P Thiyagarajan, TNOU

RESEARCH
Community C ollege Abundance M odel:
Improving O rganisational Performance i n Higher Education Christopher Shults, Assistant Provost, Mississippi Valley State
University

STATE SCAN
Interview: A shi sh Upadhyaya, C ommissioner, Higher E ducation, G ovt of Madhya Pradesh

CORPORATE DIARY
Interview: Vi kas Singh, Di rector, crux
management services

CASE STUDY
Inter-mission Industrial Development A ssociation:
Holistic E ducation for The Underprivileged

Mi traniketan: P artners in Development E ducation
Dr. Reghu Rama Das, Principal, Mitraniketan People’s College

COUNTRY PERSPECTIVE
American C ommunity Colleges in the D ownturn:
Can E ducation Save the Economy? Michelle Van Noy, Matthew Zeidenberg
Community College Research Center Teachers College, Columbia University
New York, New York, USA

DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
Interview: John Halder, president, CCID

REGULAR FEATURES

India

Asia

Corporate

Mark Y our C alendar

EDITORIAL
Knowledge Corridor : The Southern Way

COVER STORY
South India Surges In Higher Education

IN CONVERSATION
K N Panikkar, C hairman, kerala state higher education council

Dr. El izabeth S herly, Director(i/c), I ndian Institute of I nformation
Technology and Management-Keral (III TM-K)

COMMENTARY
Need to Integrate Technology in H igher Education
Dr Sanat Kaul

RESEARCH
Providing O nline Education f or All : NP TEL Prof. M.S. Ananth, Chairman,
Program Implementation Committee, NPTEL.

CASE STUDY
NIE -Eicher C entre for Automobile Technology Dr G L Shekar, Director, NIE-EICHER Centre for Automobile Technology

POLICY MATTERS
Reform in 100 D ays

PERSPECTIVE
Leveraging Technologies to Facilitate C hange in
Education S ystems Dr M S Rawat

CORPORATE DIARY
Leader’s speak :Hari Verma Nadimpalli, Vice President,
GlobalScholar

case study :1.8 Million Students in India Join the
Digital Revolution

SCHOOL TRACK
Integration of IC T in Teaching G eography Ashutosh Karasharma Mishra,
PGT-Geography, JNV, Koraput

REGULAR FEATURES

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Asia

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EDITORIAL
Celebrating the Spirit of ICT and Learning

POLICY MATTERS
Sm t. D. Purandeswari, Minister of State, Higher Education, Ministry
of Human Resource Development, gOVERN MENT OF iNDIA

Subhash C Kh untia, Joint Secretary, Department of School Education
and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government
of India

THE MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS

eINDIA 2009 AWARDS
24 N ominations for ict Enabled School of the Year

Nominations for Ict Enabled University of the Year

Nominations for Government Policy/ Initiative of the Year

Nominations for Civil Society/Development Agency initiative of the YEAR

CORPORATE DIARY : LEADERS SPEAK
Manish Sharma, Vice President, Asia Pacific, NComputing

Tarun Jain, Country Head, Hitachi Home Electronics Asia (S) Pvt Ltd.,
Singapore

Dinesh Mehta, Founder – Chairman, Top Chalks, India

Jaemes Shanley, Director of Sales – Asia Pacific, Latin America, New York,
Mimio

Atul Kulshrestha, Chairman Extramarks.com Education Private Limited

Muralidhar K S, LearnSmart India Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad

CASE STUDY

Answering the Learning Needs of New Age Education

The Reality That is India

Bringing Classroom Sessions Alive

HCL Ties-Up with Delhi University for providing ICT Training to Students

Learning Made Easy Through Virtual Instructors