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IIT-Bombay to deliver live lectures in virtual classrooms

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Students across the country will soon have access to quality education imparted at the prestigious IIT-B here as the institute plans to start within a months time a virtual classroom using the Edusat facility of ISRO.

We have set up a studio inside the campus which is just like any other classroom. It has all the facilities for uplinking the lecture to the devoted satellite - Edusat, which can transmit it to others. Colleges can have live lectures, head of IIT-Bs distance engineering education progarmme Kannan Moudgalya told reporters.

Any engineering college which awards degrees to students can fit a receiver in their premises so that the students can sit for the lecture.

More : economictimes.indiatimes.com

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