Browsing by Author "Arora, Dipti"

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    Need of Virtual Learning Environment for Educating Library & Information Science
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2015-03-12) Arora, Dipti; Lihitkar, Shalini
    We learn things when we study but understood them when we do it practically. Slowly education system understood this need and many of the areas are revamped and new student centric and project based learning are introduced in the existing curriculum. With regard to the other fields, Library and information science (LIS) profession, its curriculum and learning approach should be transformed to new Information and communication technology (ICT) based style of teaching and learning. Virtual learning environment (VLE) is one of the best solutions to get quality out of the education and to produce more gen ready information specialist and not merely librarians. This paper endeavours to discuss the need of VLE in the present LIS education, its pros and cons and also some issues that one will face while implementing it for university, college, or any educational institute.
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    Open Source Software for Virtual Learning Environment: Comparative Study
    (2013-03-23) Lihitkar, Shalini R; Arora, Dipti
    Virtual learning environment (VLE) provides students a common platform where they can get the subject-wise tutorial online (and anytime), i.e. they are not limited to only class room teaching. Apart from making learning and teaching virtually real, VLEs are equipped with other features like syllabus/curriculum for the course; administrative information like location of sessions, details of prerequisites and co-requisites, credit information, notice board for up-to-date course information and how to get help, etc. Present paper is an effort to evaluate and compare the most widely used open source VLE software tools. It compares the features, pre-requisites, and other parameters based on the predetermined parameters. Ranks to all the four open source VLEs are given on the basis of comparative study.