Open, Flexible, and Distributed e-Learning Environment to provide effective, efficient, scalable and economical learning opportunities to stakeholder communities in Universities, Schools, the Public Sector and Society at large

Education is given very high importance as a priority of life in many societies. Access to quality education on the other hand is not equitable, with a vast majority deprived of good tertiary, school, professional and community education.

e-Learning is identified as a means of providing access to education of a larger community who are unable to obtain access to education through traditional means. Thus e-Learning, if introduced in a well planned manner, would be of immense benefit to a wide audience who would be able to access quality education at low cost.

e-Learning Centre of UCSC:
National Centre of Excellence in e-Learning (NeLC)

The UCSC is the leading Human Resource Development (HRD) institute in ICT in the country and has been identified by several agencies as the location for a Centre of Excellence in e-Learning. With the highly qualified academic staff of over 50 and state of the art facilities, the UCSC is the most suited to meet the challenge of introducing e-Learning in Sri Lanka. In 2002, the UCSC started its e-learning development and services by establishing the e-Learning Centre. Its primary aim was to serve over 1000 internal and 5000 external students but now it is ready to expand its services to the whole nation through following activities. There are several donor agencies are supporting these activities and Sida (Sweden International Development Agency) is the main sponsor.

Research and Development (R&D)

e-Learning is a discipline which integrates information communication technology and education and there is no ready made solutions for immerging requirements. NeLC conducts large number of e-learning projects through international collaboration.

Capacity Building & Training

It is understood that the capacity building and specialized training are very important for the expansion and sustainability of e-Learning in Sri Lanka. NeLC is introducing following programs under the collaboration several higher education institutes in Sweden and other countries.

 

NeLC is willing to provide its consulting and services to institutes in higher education, school, public, private and community sectors. To disseminate and share the knowledge in e-learning, NeLC is building a community for e-learning in Sri Lanka through “National e-Learning Consortium”.