A Study on Karnataka LMS- Opportunities and Challenges for Developers and the Learners

Education in India is a holistic process for the attainment of continuing values in the life of each and every citizen, and also contribute towards creating a fair, just and equitable society of responsible citizen. In the country traditional methods of learning have been in use in the education.. Conventional methods are not suitable to enhance their multi-talented personality in certain situations. E-learning is supposed to be an excellent solution for the old problem of mass education since there are too many knowledge seekers and not enough knowledge providers. E-learning is a kind of web-based training. . It has experienced a outstanding evolution and growth in the last few years. This is definitely due to massive advances in information and communication technologies (ICT). The insertion of e-Content in learning is now inevitable, as result the UGC initiative is designed to meet the new challenges, and to help India take the lead in this newly emerging field. The Karnataka Government has take an initiative and released a digital initiation program scheme named Karnataka LMS Scheme (K-LMS )The main aim of this digital initiation is to make the curriculum of colleges online in digital mode. Digital platforms include digital courses in multiple languages as PPT, videos, quizzes, assignments and study material. The Karnataka state government has claimed that this digital initiative will boost e-learning in colleges. This paper focussed on K-LMS and other platforms. Students’ perceived advantages and pitfalls of online learning , opportunities and challenges for tutors they facing while creating and delivering the contents and their opinion on effectiveness of Online classes as compare to physical class are discussed here.