e-Business Strategic Initiative: E-School [ Virtual Learning Environment]

8/4/2019 e-Business Strategic Initiative: E-School [ Virtual Learning Environment]

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E-BUSINESS STRATEGYPROPOSALe-School

SEDULITY SOLUTIONS & TECHNOLOGIES, NEW DELHI, INDIA

R A M A N P A L

M . S C . W E B T E C H N O L O G Y S C H O O L O F E L E C T R O N I C S & C O M P U T E R S C I E N C E

U N I V E R S I T Y O F S O U T H A M P T O N

R P 5 G 0 9 @ E C S . S O T O N . A C . U K

S T U D E N T I D : 2 3 7 5 8 3 6 8


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Executive Summary

The present market conditions are highly competitive, saving or earning

maximum profit increases your possibility of winning over your competitors.

Sedulity being No. 1 in the field of IT Trainings and courses - it is a very

important and challenging task to maintain its lead on his competitors.

This e-business proposal will talk about implementation of E-School for

.

E-School is based on the concept of Virtual Learning Environment, which has

been used by lots of International Bodies and Universities for educational

purposes.

This project will be run under the direct supervision of Mr. Mukul Girdhar

(Vice President Operations & Trainings).

Estimated time of execution 3 Months.


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Sedulitys Training Wing

This wing was started in the year 2001 for providing IT Trainings & Courses.

Major hubs are located in New Delhi, Maharashtra, J&K, Punjab & Rajasthan.

Three different type of programs are run by this wing:

a) Classroom programme at Sedulity learning centres.

b) On-site training programs for the corporate trainings.

Presently, the course material for Classroom Programme & On-Site TrainingProgramme is as follows:

a) CDs/ DVDs with Audio/Visual Tutorials & Presentations.

b) Books

c) Classroom Sessions In Distance Learning Program the Classroom sessions are not provided

everything else remains the same.


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Problem Statement

Content management is not possible for the things taught in classroomsessions.

Lectures delivered and queries dealt once in a class cant be presentedagain.

Restricted time for lectures and classroom programs are restricted to.

The method of training by using audio/visual clips and presentation isquite old and has now been adopted by the other competitors.

Present system is capable to handle only 30 Corporate TrainingProjects out of 45, thus making Annual loss of 33.3%.

In Figures. Each Corporate Training Project = GBP 5,000

15 Corporate Training Projects/year= 5,000 x 15

Annual Loss= GBP 75,000


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E-Business Proposal: E-School

E-School as the name suggests will be a 24x7 Online School, where thetrainers and students from all the courses will unite.

All trainings/courses will then be controlled and conducted on the E-School. Students & Teachers can access all the resources with the their Login IDs.

The trainers/teachers will upload their presentations, videos and studymaterial online and will make a virtual classroom environment.

Students can attend tutorial sessions practically anytime & from anywhere theywant and can post their queries.

Queries raised in a particular session will be answered by the teacher/trainerand will be listed alongside the topic.

Students/Professionals enrolled under Distant Learning Programmesor On-Site trainings will be getting the maximum benefits.

Implementation of this system will allow the work force to get engagedin more projects and will cut down lots of other expenditures.


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E-School v/s Present System

Features E-School Present System

24x7 Access to classroom Yes, E-school allows the students and teachers to access the classroom 24x7. No, allows access only during the

office hours.

Course Material Yes, available online 24x7. And can be accessed from anywhere in the world. And

books will still be a part of course materials.

CDs, DVDs and books.

Assignments Yes, all the students can upload and download their assignments and feedbacks. Yes, students have to submit

assignment in the learning centre

either in person or by postal mails.

Upload and share documents Yes, this system enables the users to upload the content and share with his peers. No

Online quizzes /tests Yes, online tests and quizzes can be conducted. No

Online Student Record Yes, student performance in all the sessions and quizzes will be monitored and

recorded.

No

Online Discussions Yes, users can form a group and can hold debates and discussion on any topic. No,

Online Work Groups Yes, allows the users to collaborate and work together in a groups. No, only students of classroom

programs can collaborate into

working together.

Online Feedback System Yes, users can give anonymous feedback about the course, tutor and other things. No


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E-School Prototype

Teacheruttin

Student

Course

workonline,

andreplying

toqueries.

onlinesessions& posting

queries


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E-School Architecture


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E-School Implementation Schedule

Stages Tasks Day(s)

Sedulitys E-school will be developed completely in-house by Sedulitys DevelopmentTeam, thus allowing us to keep the development cost to minimum. The project will be using the old scrap of a similar project which was left incomplete, thusallowing us to cut short the development time.This system will take some very best features from VLE systems like Moodle and WebCT.

Development Requirement Analysis, system design, D/B Mgmt., etc. 20

Uploads Uploading content into the D/B and website. 7

Testing Stage1 In-house testing. 3

Beta Launch Beta testing by the users. 40

Evaluations &

Modifications

Based on the feedback from beta testing, implementations

of shortcoming of the system.

10

Stage2 Testing Final round of testing and evaluations. 10


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E-School Cost Estimation

Cost Factor No. Expense

Human Resource: Tester + Developer 3+5[50(D) x 20]x8= 8000

, , . .

Cost= 0

Content for Website

(Presentation, Videos, Quizzes,

Assignments, etc)

As per

courses.

Content for the website can

be taken from the CDs &

DVDs of study material for

present system.

Cost = 0


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Estimated time to payback

Proposal is targeted to cater

600 Students/year for Classroom Training program.

600 Students/year for Distance Learning program.1200 Students/Year

Sedulity conducts 30 corporate training programs every year.

.

30 Training x 30 participants

900 Professionals/Year

Each copy of Study Material consisting of Single User DVDs Pack = 42

Thus cost of 1200+900 copies of study material = 42x2100

Therefore, Net Savings = 88200/Year

Thus the Implementation Cost of 8000 can be covered in aperiod less than 2 months.


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Potential Risk Involved

People: The new learning environment for thestudents and professionals and might be a challenge

for them to learn to use it.Countermeasure :Introductory sessions can be given

for the first time users, so that they can understand the.

Technology: Technical defects can affect the growthof system, and it is quite possible that some designrelated issues will also creep in.

Countermeasure : A dedicated team of professionalscan be made and all the issues reported, will bemanaged by them.


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References

www.sedulitygroups.com

www.tmu.sedulity.com www.wiziq.com

by Allan Afuah

E-business (R)evolution, The by Daniel Amor

e-Business 2.0: Roadmap for Success (2nd Edition) by

Ravi Kalakota


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e-Business Strategic Initiative: E-School [ Virtual Learning Environment]