Towards the promotion of education remotely, SNDT Women’s University, Tata Tele Services Ltd., Atom Tech, Mumbai, & Indian PCO Teleservices Ltd have entered into a strategic alliance to develop and disseminate mobile education, an additional vehicle in distance learning, to reach the masses for remote teaching and learning in rural communities and physically challenged. This alliance sees the content developed & managed by SNDT University, Tata Indicom on its service channels becoming the carrier, Atom Technologies, providing the intermediary Interfaces and through Pay Phones’ Welfare Association and 500,000 constituent members providing the service distribution and dissemination system. This alliance has put together a new paradigm in providing M-Education and thereby covering far flung and remote areas in the country as also assist to bridge the physical distances using CDMA technology.

The M–Education offered will have contemporary content and provides the much needed value addition to the student. Under this model, the mobile phone undergoes a metamorphosis from a device that allows you access to voice and text messaging, it transforms into one that helps you access accredited educational content, take mock tests on the move, regardless of geographies or physical constraints.

TTSL together with SNDT recognized the challenges in the propagation of education because of the constraints of printed but dated content and infrastructure bound but not easily accessible schools and colleges. The M-Education offered will have the contemporary content and do away with the need to visit physical schools and colleges.

Such a strategic alliance between Tata Teleservices, SNDT University, ATOM Tech, HP labs, ADC Krone and IPTL hamesses the technology through a unique model. Under this model, a mobile phone under goes a metamorphosis- from a device that allows access to voice and text messaging, accredited educational content, take mock tests on the move, regardless of geographies or physical constraints.

Initially this service will be available in Hindi and English language but will be expanded in other regional languages as well.