E-LEARNING A LINGUISTIC RURAL PERSPECTIVE

Fakkiravva Muttagi, S L Deshpande

Abstract: India is a multilingual developing nation with increasing literacy rate of 74% (as per census). Lack of available literacy is not supported with content or skilled trainers. So technology is available but the content and effective synchronous and asynchronous models e-learning have not been attempted effectively. Effective assessment of e-learning is not tested. An attempt has been made in this article to gather the requirement from Karnataka rural areas, NGO (RAPID) and developed the e-learning application for rural area to enhance their skills and increase literacy in regional language to provide knowledge in a local language.

Keywords: E-learning, Mobile Development, Rural Development, Literacy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0505022