Abstract—Education is now under a mystified stage of identifying what category of approach that may be adopted for more employability option. The institutions should follow typical knowledge based education or more skill based workability based education. Getting employment after professional education is a must for the young graduates. The paper discusses various issues and challenges related to IT application in soft skill training. The students overall skills have to be increased in tough environment to achieve success. But most of the students from rural areas have not been able to access to training modules embedded with IT. In the first phase of the IT enabled soft skill training program, 5000 students was undertaken with funding from ministry of Information Technology, Government of India in improving the overall skill development of engineering students. The various factors of soft skills are studied for the future enables of IT in development of the students.

Index Terms—Soft skills, e-tutoring, multimedia, simulation.

M. S. Kumar is with Associate Professor, Dean (Academics) and Programmme Director–IT Soft Skills Project, Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore.
N. V. Jayaraman is with Director-IT Soft Skills Project, Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore.

Cite: M. Saravana Kumar and N. V. Jayaraman, "Practices and Cases in e-Education ," International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 157-161, 2012.