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Virtual classes have become the latest trend among high school students, who no longer have to touch a pig to dissect it in biology class; they can just see it being dissected for them on the computer monitor. Some teachers and parents are now concerned that students are not getting enough hands on experience especially in science classes. Schools like Florida Virtual High; a school where thousands of students take online courses have become popular in the last few years. While some parents are concerned with the lack of hands on experience, others don’t think it’s that important.

In a novel e-learning initiative, engineering students of Karnataka's Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) will be provided an online learning platform to hone their IT and soft skills to help them fare better in a highly competitive job market.To enable about 150,000 engineering students across the state get on to the virtual platform, the VTU has tied up with Liqwid Krystal, a Bangalore-based leading provider of e-learning solutions that has developed the software to access the skills online."On a pilot basis we are enrolling about 50,000 students of fourth semester (second year) in various under-graduate and post-graduate colleges affiliated to the university for learning the soft skills online," said VTU vice-chancellor K. Balaveera Reddy."Complimenting the curriculum for the degree, these students will be trained for gaining proficiency in English language and communication skills so as to compete on par with their counterparts from Indian Institutes of Technology and the National Institutes of Technology in campus recruitments and job interviews."Touted to be the first of its kind in the country, the e-platform, christened "gyanX", will have a select catalogue of online courseware, books and other content for empowering students to learn interactively.The e-platform will be extended to all the 121 affiliated engineering colleges of the VTU, besides 25 under-graduate and 60 post-graduate colleges teaching masters in business administration and master of computer application courses."Our aim is to harness the power of the Internet as a learning delivery medium to make our students much more employable and job worthy.