THE ASIAN AGE
New Delhi
August 23 '2000

Portal Offers Personalised Pages For Every Student to Better Their Information Base

Get the B-School degree, coaching at home

By Atanu Kumar Das

Education has no longer remained a dictum, which you can acquire through going to various colleges or universities. Web has fully revolutionised the concept and now you have the liberty to get a degree by simply enrolling yourself on the Net.

Openlearningworld.com is a such a portal where you can get online degree in management courses. The portal has tied up with 15 universities till data to offer such degrees and 35 more universities are in the pipeline.

“The portal offers services ranging from easy and quick access to various courses such as e-commerce, customer relationship management, knowledge management, attractive venture capital funding, diploma in network and Internet technology and multimedia.

“The portal also has a subject expert channel through which the students can get maximum knowledge and information. It also offers a personal page to each student to enable them to access any information on any course on our portal.

“There are several professors who are available to help out the students regarding what type of books they sound pursue or the students can even get answers to their various queries from these professors,” Anurag Jain CEO told The Asian age.

“Though the students can get full course material in the Net, the authenticity of the portal resides in the fact that during the examination time they have to give their paper with the offline students, which ensures that the universities are not offering the degree vaguely.”

Till data the portal has got 8,000 registered users. The target audience of the portal are the working professionals who would like to pursue a post graduate degree to surge their professional career. Openlearningworld.com is also offering eight to 10 courses free online.

Elaborating on the rational behind the introduction of such a portal Mr. Jain said, “Our constant and conscious effort is to provide up to date information on various courses and offer maximum exposure and convenience to our valued customers, enabling them to get a degree via the Internet from the comforts of their homes.” “In a globally networked environment, the advantage of this portal is to provide information that makes a difference,” he added.

There has been an initial investment of Rs. 60 to Rs. 80 lakh and the revenue model resides in the courses offered by them. There are also plans to initiate more professional courses in the portal and even the portal is planning to provide online BA, BSc and Bcom in future.