Now it is easier and more affordable than ever before to participate in this unique online-course:

• Rewarding with and without access to a personal teacher
• Low participation fees for individuals and groups
• Group rates (min. 12 persons per group) available on request; offered to university/college students and those registered with a recognized institution (e.g. adult education programs, music and dance schools run by cultural associations)
• Special student rates for individuals
• Concessional rate for participants from previous online courses available on request
• No national boundaries - participate wherever you have a multimedia enabled computer and internet access
• Payment options: bank transfer or PayPal (i.e secure use of credit card; free of cost; there is no need for opening a PayPal account); other forms of institutional payment available on request
  

New attractive features:

• Accessible from any internet enabled computer without need for a local CDRom drive (fast internet connection required)
• Familiar and intuitive features help even inexperienced computer/internet users to use their time productively
• Personal course journals enable students to interact with their tutor(s) in a focused and time saving manner for the first time
• New courses are now based on the Moodle course management system designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities
• Teachers/tutors of a special seminar group join and monitor the course forum as co-tutors free of charge (useful whenever students seek credits for an academic course)
  
• Tryout version are available to adapt or newly design courses for seminar groups
• Flexible course framework to match institutional specifications and other requirements
• Optional introduction of additional multimedia contents and literature from a variety of sources (e.g. articles and unpublished papers)
  
• Communication is done both on a person-to-person basis and via open forum discussions
  
• Seminar groups create their own forum discussion groups as and when required
  
• Privacy is protected as participants' as e-mail addresses are not revealed
• Register by e-mail or go straight to the Register button in the course site
  

For questions and inquiries regarding special courses, e-mail carnaticstudent.org

Teachers of Indian music or dance and faculty members in the field of musicology are welcome to suggest a course plan for the purpose of teaching cooperation with carnaticstudent.org.

P.S. - What makes this course become so inexpensive?

The professional Moodle course system does not require any software license fees to be paid (*). A course which normally only a minority of Western students could hope to afford can thus be offered for little money thereby giving more people a chance to participate in it than ever before.

Precious resources can now be allocated to providing participants with full support and delivering multimedia contents via first class servers.