World's largest open university goes mobile
(Thomson Reuters ONE) - * Learning on the mobile for approximately 2.5 million students* E-learning reaches rural India* Students from 34 countries benefit through partnershipsThe classroom of the future is moving to mobile phones, and reachingfarther into India thanks to a new partnership between Ericsson(NASDAQ: ERIC) and IGNOU (The Indira Gandhi National OpenUniversity). Ericsson will build a 3G environment for students todownload IGNOU course contents. They can also get SMS alerts on theirmobile devices.Professor V N Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice Chancellor of IGNOU, says:"Our University is founded on the idea that education should beoffered to less advantaged sections of society. With Ericsson's help,we will create a learning platform that uses mobile devices to buildeducational excellence and exchange information. Our students willbenefit from the flexibility of learning at their own pace, any time,anywhere."Gowton Achaibar, President of Ericsson India, says: "This partnershipis yet another proof point of telecommunication being key fordevelopment of society. Education using mobile broadband technologywill provide an efficient and economical way to get content tostudents in distance learning programs."The government in India has recently begun promoting higher educationin the country, where only 15 percent of students currently reachhigh school. Similarly, India is suffering a shortage of teacherswith higher degrees and 50 percent of college professors teachwithout a master's degree or a PhD.IGNOU was set up to pioneer open and distance learning. It offersvarious academic programs leading to Certificates, Diplomas andDegrees. The university has more than two million students enrolled,in India as well as in 34 other countries.Gowton Achaibar adds, "We have a clear opportunity to use India'srapidly rising teledensity to bring the advantages of broadband tothe world of education."Notes to editors:Photos of signing ceremony and Gowton Achaibar will be availablehere:http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/press/photos/index.shtmlEricsson's multimedia content is available at the broadcast room:www.ericsson.com/broadcast_roomEricsson is the world's leading provider of technology and servicesto telecom operators. Ericsson is the leader in 2G, 3G and 4G mobiletechnologies, and provides support for networks with over 1 billionsubscribers and has a leading position in managed services. Thecompany's portfolio comprises of mobile and fixed networkinfrastructure, telecom services, software, broadband and multimediasolutions for operators, enterprises and the media industry. The SonyEricsson and ST-Ericsson joint ventures provide consumers withfeature-rich personal mobile devices.Ericsson is advancing its vision of "to be the prime driver in anall-communicating world" through innovation, technology, andsustainable business solutions. Working in 175 countries, more than75,000 employees generated revenue of SEK 209 billion (USD 32.2billion) in 2008. Founded in 1876 with the headquarters in Stockholm,Sweden, Ericsson is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm and NASDAQ NewYork.www.ericsson.comwww.twitter.com/ericssonpressFOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACTEricsson Corporate Public & Media RelationsPhone: +46 10 719 69 92E-mail: press.relations(at)ericsson.comAbout IGNOUIGNOU has been established by an Act of Parliament on 1985. Inrelatively short period it grew into a giga university by 2004 and by2006 it grew into the world's largest among universities of alltypes. Its students strength is about 2.5 million worldover. IGNOUhas 62 Regional centres, countryside, nationwide. The Regionalcentres through 2,340 study centres. The university is present in 34countries with 53 partner institutions abroad.Mandated to take education to the doorsteps of people, IGNOU todaydisseminates education to over eight (8) million homes through theEdusat-mediate beams of DTH services. Increasingly IGNOU is puttinginto applications the latest Information and CommunicationTechnologies (ICTs) to reach out to the unreached in the remote areasof rural India.www.ignou.ac.inhttp://hugin.info/1061/R/1351218/326456.pdfThis announcement was originally distributed by Hugin. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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