In the 1990s and 2000s, distance learning over the Internet became the dominant remote learning craze.

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Such networks are already revolutionizing inventory control and fleet management, and are set to play a growing role in key social sectors like healthcare, through e-health applications, education, through remote learning and teacher training, and environmental management through applications like smart grids, monitoring systems and smart buildings.

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Meanwhile, schools and universities across the country are experimenting with remote and networked learning.

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The Indian Institute of Technology has developed a methodology combining e-learning and direct contact session in remote centres across the country to train teachers.

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He has since gone on to experiment with the idea of self-learning, offering software to children living in remote parts of India so that they can teach themselves.

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In addition, a real-world school will be built in India offering children a place to receive the remote lessons, and it well also serve as a research centre into self-directed learning.

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Snapshots of the user's acoustic patterns were sent to a remote server, where the user's emotional state would be calculated by a machine-learning system.

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