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Sun Microsystems has named Indian Institute of
Information Technology and Management, Kerala (IITM-K) as a Sun
Regional Centre of Excellence (CoE) for e-learning.
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| Karthik K Anand, tech head, STG Chennai
(left) accepts the Red Hat Training Partner Award from Javed
Tapia, director-India, Red Hat |
The first Regional CoE selected in India, IIITM-K
will join an elite group of only four universities worldwide recognised
by Sun and the academic community as leading-edge researchers in
e-learning technologies. IIITM-K has empowered students and staff
to study when they like, where they like and how they like by putting
in place an advanced e-learning programme called Education Grid.
With the Education Grid, students can take classes from anywhere,
logging onto the Internet to listen to and review their lectures,
and holding tutorial discussions via an online forum. The Education
Grid is based on TeN’s Academic E-learning application, running
on Sun’s servers.
Dr K Srivatsan, director of IIITM-K said, “This
institution is honoured to be selected as a Sun Centre of Excellence.
We see our collaboration with Sun as key to fully utilising emerging
technologies to further our research efforts. Our work will continue
to push the boundaries of e-learning, given our commitment to the
Know-ledge Campus concept, where a university utilises enabling
technologies to focus on knowledge production.”
“IIITM-K was the natural choice as the first
India Regional CoE. The research IIITM-K conducts exemplifies the
principles of Sun’s CoE programme—innovations that bring
real world results,” said Andrew Lim, director of Asia South,
Global Education and Research for Sun Microsystems. “This further
collaboration will complement the excellent foundation we have built
together in IIITM-K,” he added.
“Working with IIITM-K we’re combining
the top minds in computing with the industry’s best technology
and we are confident that these projects will see great success,”
said Vishal Dhupar, director sales of Sun Microsystems.
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