All India Council of Technical Education Launches Free E-Learning Portal a midst of COVID-19 pandemic in India. AICTE has launched an online portal to help the students in India.
Students can access the free courses from www.free.aicte-india.org.
According to the Council, many companies have now come forward and offered their e-learning contents free of cost to learners during this pandemic situation.
As per the tweet of AICTE, this Free E-Learning Portal to positively engage & support learning of students
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">#FREE e-Learning (https://t.co/HTwjDKLjv4)@ #AICTEdge#AICTE launches Enhancement in Learning with Improvement in Skills #ELIS portal to positively engage & support learning of students & overcome setback to academic activity due to #COVID19Pandemic#StayHome #BharatPadheOnline pic.twitter.com/MUhW0Oh6Md
— AICTE (@AICTE_INDIA) April 12, 2020#FREE e-Learning (https://t.co/HTwjDKLjv4)@ #AICTEdge#AICTE launches Enhancement in Learning with Improvement in Skills #ELIS portal to positively engage & support learning of students & overcome setback to academic activity due to #COVID19Pandemic#StayHome #BharatPadheOnline pic.twitter.com/MUhW0Oh6Md
— AICTE (@AICTE_INDIA) April 12, 2020
This portal was formally launched by Prof Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman AICTE along with Prof. M.P Poonia, Vice chairman AICTE and Prof Rajive Kumar, Member Secretary, AICTE on Sunday.
The development team was led by Buddha Chandrashekhar, Chief Coordinating Officer, NEAT and NEAT cell team members Dr. Elangovan , Debanshu Srivastava and Baljeet Singh.
The e-learning contents on the portal have been sourced from 18 leading Ed-tech companies with 26 different courses.
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The AICTE statement said, "Under normal circumstances these are selectively available at prices ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 20,000. However, all participating companies have offered to enrol students in the present lockdown period without any cost till 15 May 2020. All companies have also gracefully agreed to keep the course free. In effect, there shall be no charges whatsoever to be paid by learners who enrol now till the course is completed,"
Prof Sahasrabudhe expressed his deep gratitude to all the companies for rising to the occasion and offering the contents free of cost for benefit of the student community. Also, he expressed his satisfaction that the nation as a whole has come together to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
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(ETV Bharat)
