Vel Murugan
CEO, Velammal Educational Trust

Vel Murugan is CEO of Velammal Educational Trust (INR 30 Billion Group) with 16 years of education experience, from Teaching, Management & Executive Leadership. He has worked closely with his father, Leading Educator Shri MV Muthuramalingam – Founder & Chairman of Velammal Educational Trust, to grow the group from small school with 186 students to the No 1 Educational Institution in South India and Tamilnadu Region with over 50,000 students. Murugan leads an Educational Magazine “Punnagai Ulagam” a publishing house “Pearl Printers and Publishers”, A Book House “Arivikalanchiam, an Educational Consultancy firm “Pearl Academic Ideas and Innovations” and he is Vice President of World Tennikoit Federation, and a sports enthusiast.

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11:30am Wednesday, 07/21/2010

Community Driven eLearning in India Using Collaborative Open Source Applications, Methodologies, and Experience

Education
Location: D133

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Gopinath Ganapathy (Essentia), Vel Murugan (Velammal Educational Trust)

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India’s audacious goal to educate 500 million people by 2022 can only be met using an open source approach. We will our experience building and delivering a peer-based, self-paced, community-driven 21st century learning environment using open source and freely available content, sustained by a micro-finance model that completely flattens the hierarchical approach strictly embraced in India. Read more.

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Vel Murugan CEO, Velammal Educational Trust