Virtual education software progress in India
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Virtual education software progress in India
January 09, 2006
 
Category: release 2006

 

Bangalore's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, which leads the Indian Government-funded Development Gateway ICT Research and Training Centre, has published a technical paper on building virtual classroom situations using the center's Vartalaap software. The open-source software is being developed to cater to the online communications needs of people in their local language.


Read "Vartalaap - Virtual Classroom System"



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