Mobile Education by Tata Indicom

Techtree News Staff, Jan 28, 2008 1648 hrs IST

M-Education will offer contemporary content and do away with the need to visit physical institutes, thus bridging the physical gap using CDMA technology

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Tata Teleservices plans to start a new initiative, Mobile Education (M-Education), an attempt to aid distance learning and support learning in rural communities and for the physically challenged.

Towards the promotion of education in the remotest corners of the nation, the company has partnered with SNDT Women's University, ATOM Tech (Any Transaction on Mobile), and Indian PCO Teleservices (IPTL).

In this alliance, SNDT University will develop and manage content, Tata Indicom on its service channels will be the carrier, ATOM will provide the intermediary interfaces and IPTL will look after service distribution and dissemination system.

Under this model, the mobile phone transforms itself from a mere device that allows users access to voice and text messaging the one that proffers accredited educational content and takes mock tests on the move, regardless of geographies or physical constraints.

The M-Education will offer contemporary content to students and do away with the need to visit physical schools and colleges, thus bridging the physical distances using CDMA technology.

Commenting on the initiative C N Nagakumar, CHRO, Tata Teleservices, said "We embarked upon the journey couple of months ago for the larger education of our population. The twin objectives we could achieve with this service are a paradigm shift from the paper format to mobile format and impact both women and education."

Initially, the M-Education service will be available in Hindi and English language. However, the alliance plans to make the service available in other regional languages later.

USER COMMENTS

WE are an NGO and we want to use the M-education services for our students. Please help us with the procedure. Also want to know about the details regarding program and how we can get the logins for the same

by SSK, U.P, on Oct 23, 2008 11:48 AM, Report abuse Reply

I'm interested in mobile phone education

by Anup Banerjee, Bathinda, on Sep 30, 2008 10:59 AM, Report abuse Reply

request of the day . it is greate news to the rural community . let us help our nation to stand bold in our education system

by amsa, bangalore, on Jan 30, 2008 12:43 PM, Report abuse Reply

very good response i'm happy to read my comment

by AMSA, bangalore, on Feb 28, 2008 08:03 PM, Report abuse

An excellent innovative approach to reach far places with education/learning. Although approach has inherent limitations, but it will be a milestone in development. It will be more fruitful if education is provided in local languages also. Dr Diwakar Tejaswi Consultant Physician & Medical Director International Health Organization

by Dr Diwakar Teja, Patna, India, on Jan 31, 2008 01:36 PM, Report abuse Reply

exellent approach....

by Neha Sinha, Chennai, on Jan 31, 2008 09:42 AM, Report abuse Reply

this is very intresting one. it is very useful to rural people.

by boss, keeranur, on Jan 30, 2008 09:14 PM, Report abuse Reply

it's very good for trainee engineer, who don't have much prectical knowladge.and it's also good for communication field.

by prachi, jhansi, on Jan 30, 2008 04:18 PM, Report abuse Reply

Let us extend the initiative on education to office like work like word processing, archiving, search, accounting. One candidate for partnership with the Tatas would be eDeskOnline which allows all of these along with accounting.

by Sanjiv Swarup, Mumbai, on Jan 30, 2008 03:40 PM, Report abuse Reply

i reallly appreciate this move .immenselyproud to work with it

by ISHTIAQUE ALAM, RANCHI, on Jan 30, 2008 01:55 PM, Report abuse Reply

Great Initiative... challenges are always there whenever you are finding a new path, I am sure TATAs will surely make it success

by Sunil Choudhary, Mumbai, on Jan 30, 2008 09:57 AM, Report abuse Reply

M-Education is a very intresting Idea..

by surya brata sah, Balangir, on Jan 30, 2008 09:56 AM, Report abuse Reply

Nice idea but implementation will be difficult

by aruna, Chennai, on Jan 30, 2008 09:54 AM, Report abuse Reply

Its a nice gesture but my concerns are same as that of first comments..its definitely difficult to read from a mobile device and charging the mobile phones could be one more issue

by Sandhya, Bangalore, on Jan 30, 2008 09:04 AM, Report abuse Reply

This technology will be great but I stongly think that keeping cell phone for a long hours may be hazardus and reading text from the small screen again will be hazardus. This techonology will be good for the phones having speaker and develop a phone having a screen(means palmtop), because u r introducing this techonology to remote areas and to physicaly handicap.

by Moyyi Srinivasa, Srikakulam, on Jan 29, 2008 07:58 PM, Report abuse Reply

THIS IS NICE THINK.

by SHAH HARDIK M, KALOL, on Jan 29, 2008 04:43 PM, Report abuse Reply

sexiest idea of mobile niche

by shiva, HYDERABAD, on Jan 29, 2008 03:19 PM, Report abuse Reply

its good idea really it is very interesting

by karunakar reddy, kadapa, on Jan 29, 2008 01:46 PM, Report abuse Reply

m education ! great

by ramesh, mumbai, on Jan 28, 2008 08:53 PM, Report abuse Reply

it's a very good idea from tata teleservices,but any remote area has their own problem,no sufficient eletricity to charge the hand set or any other device.it will be good for tehsil places.i am in the service ,who provide cdma based network.i know the problems are their,but u can put more effort to replace battery or bty charger in the sufficient quantity.then it will be easier

by kishor patil, kannod, on Jan 28, 2008 08:40 PM, Report abuse Reply