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Satyam
Education Services Limited (SESL) announced that Digital GlobalSoft
(formerly Digital Equipment India), has contracted the company to
provide real time interactive distance learning to its employees
over its corporate network. LearnLinc from Mentergy Inc., USA, is
sold and implemented in India by SESL. The eLearning arm of Sify,
LearnLinc is a market leading virtual classroom and Web conferencing
solution that operates over the Internet or corporate intranet.
It supports two way audio / video conferencing and streaming audio
/ video, and has a rich set of features such as white boarding,
application sharing, polling, testing and assessment, etc, integrated
into an easy to use interface. Organisations can use it for training
as well as for conducting meetings and conferences.
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Kumar, head, Corporate eLearning Solutions, SESL, asserted, “LearnLinc
is a high impact / high ROI solution being used by global corporations
such as Aetna, WorldCom and Convergys, and by several universities
and distance learning companies, to deliver interactive instructor-led
training. From an eLearning perspective, LearnLinc preserves the
interactivity and effectiveness of classroom training, with the
added benefits of cost savings, scalability and lower time to competence.
Digital is among the early adopters of this tool in India, and we
see many large Indian companies adopting this in the next few months.”
According
to Aparna Dutt, manager, Competency Development Centre at Digital,
who is driving this new initiative, “Our main objective in
using LearnLinc is to integrate over 350 employees who are in overseas
locations, into the mainstream training programs conducted in India,
without having to incur the cost of travel. We expect to do 15-20
programmes in the next three months.”
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