Digital
initiatives in higher education.
Digital Initiative in Higher Education
Through NMEICT
The aim to raise the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in
the higher education including vocational education from 26.3 (2018) to 50 by
2035, and the quest to enhance the quality of education would require a
large-scale expansion of the high-quality education opportunities.
1. Study
Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM):
SWAYAM is an indigenous (Made in India) IT Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Platform for providing best quality education that can be accessed by anyone,
anytime and anywhere using the IT system.
All the courses delivered through SWAYAM are available free of cost to
the learners, however students wanting certifications shall be registered,
shall be offered a certificate on successful completion of the course, with a
little fee.
Important Points:
Ø The
Concept of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) involves online delivery of
interactive learning content to large number of people simultaneously. It
allows sharing of best quality education with everyone, thereby bringing in
equity as far as the quality of education is concerned.
Ø It is developed by Ministry of Human Resource
Development (MHRD) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) with
the help of Microsoft.
Ø Its
ultimately capable of hosting 2000 courses and 80000 hours of learning:
covering school, under-graduate, post-graduate, engineering, law and other
professional courses.
Ø More than 1,000 specially chosen faculty and
teachers from across the Country have participated in preparing these courses.
Ø At
present, the Credits up to 20% of the total courses can only be earned in a
Semester by such students through online learning delivered on SWAYAM platform.
Courses under SWAYAM would be available in the
following levels: For each level, there is a National Coordinator, who would be
responsible for the quality of content:
· Out
of school Children: for classes 9th to 12th (National Coordinator: National
Open School Society: NIOS
· School children in classes 9th to 12th
(National Coordinator: NCERT)
· Undergraduate
(non-engineering) courses (National Coordinator: CEC)
· Post
graduate (non-engineering) courses (National Coordinator: UGC)
· Engineering
Courses (National Coordinator: IIT Madras)
· Management
Courses (National Coordinator: IIM Bangalore)
· Out
of college students (National Coordinator: IGNOU)
· Teaching
the teachers (National Coordinator: NITTER Chennai)
There are 4 quadrants in the MOOC pedagogy:
I.
Video tutorials covering a whole course –
normally having about 20 hours of instruction in series of lectures, each
lecture not exceeding 30 minutes.
II.
E-Content: reading material that could add
to the learning imparted through the video tutorials.
III.
Self-Assessment: Quizzes/assignments that
intersperse the course
IV.
Discussion forum for posting queries
2. SWAYAM
Prabha: the 32 Educational DTH Channels: The SWAYAM PRABHA
is a group of 32 DTH channels devoted to telecasting of highquality educational
programmes on 24X7 basis using the GSAT-15 satellite. Every day, there will be
new content for at least (4) hours which would be repeated 5 more times in a
day, allowing the students to choose the time of their convenience. The
channels are uplinkeded from BISAG, Gandhinagar. The contents are provided by
NPTEL, IITs, UGC, CEC, IGNOU, NCERT and NIOS. The INFLIBNET Centre maintains
the web portal.
3. National
Digital Library (NDL): NDL is the Single Window Platform
that collects and collates metadata from premier learning institutions in India
and abroad, as well as other relevant sources. It is a digital repository
containing textbooks, articles, videos, audio books, lectures, simulations,
fiction and all other kinds of learning media. It aims to collect, preserve and
disseminate entire intellectual output of our country and provide online access
from school level to post graduate level, including technical education.
Importance points
Ø There
are more than 72 lakh digital books available through the NDL. The contents
cover almost all major domains of education and all major levels of learners
from school level to the highest level of education including life-long learners
Ø More
than 15 lakh students have registered themselves in the NDL. The NDL is
available through a mobile app too.
4. National
Academic Depository: NAD is a Unique, Innovative and
Progressive initiative under “Digital India” theme towards achieving Digital
enablement of the Education Records. NAD aspires to make the vision of Digital
Academic Certificates for every Indian a reality
5. Shodh
Sindhu: More than 15,000 international electronic journals
and e-books are made available to all the higher educational institutions
through the e shodh Sindhu initiative. This allows access to be best education
resources in the world using digital mode.
6. Virtual
Labs: Over 205 virtual labs in 9 Engineering & Science
disciplines, comprising about 1515 experiments are operational and currently
being accessed by more than 6 lakh students.
website- http://www.vlab.co.in/
7. e-Yantra:
eYantra
is creating skills by setting up lab infrastructure for project based learning
and training teachers in these 100 engineering colleges. web-site: www.eyantra.org
8. Campus
Connectivity: The Mission also aims to provide 20
Broadband connections of 512 Kbps speed to over 25,000 colleges and 2000
polytechnics and optical fiber connectivity one Gbps to 419 universities/
university level institutions in the country which includes internet facility.
On the lines of ‘Digital India’ initiative of the PMO, the MHRD has now decided
that the campuses of Universities, (having 1 Gbps bandwidth) shall be made WiFi
enabled campus. Already all the IITs, IIMs, and NITs have established WiFi
campuses.
9. Talk
to a Teacher: Talk to a Teacher developed by IIT Bombay,
is an initiative of the National Mission on Education through ICT, funded by
MHRD to provide free access to a few selected graduate and postgraduate
courses, taught at IIT Bombay by distinguished faculty members and scholars at
large. Apart from the core courses in engineering and computer science
disciplines, the program also covers Humanities & Social Sciences
discipline. More than 80,000 teachers have been trained, so far, under this
project, involving synchronous delivery of courses from IIT Mumbai & IIT
Kharagpur.
10. Ask
A Question: Ask A Question is a unique platform
through which students from science and engineering colleges all over India can
ask questions and faculty from IIT Bombay answers them. Students can ask
questions either through an online forum or during an interactive live session.
Interactive live sessions are held on every Thursday from 4:00 P.M to 5:00 P.M
in the field of Electrical Engineering and every Friday from 4:00 P.M to 5:00
P.M in the field of Physics.
11. e-Acharya:
e-Acharya also called ‘Integrated e-Content Portal’ of NMEICT, is the official
repository of NMEICT e-content and all content produced under NMEICT is being
put at this Repository platform at INFILIBNET Centre Gandhinagar, so to apply
basic tenets of preservation for digital content, implement standard Metadata
schema of different types for the digital content and ensure their long-term
availability.
12. E-Kalpa:
As
on December 2015, the content of e-Kalpa website named “D’source” includes 160
Courses on Design Learning in different domains, more than 400 Resources in the
form of fine examples of Design and crafts, 110 Case studies of Design Projects
undertaken by professionals and design students, 50 Video lectures and presentations
by subjects experts and 600 examples of a visual Gallery that has documented
works of the rich tradition of art and design seen across different regions of
India.
13. The
Free and Open Source Software for Education (FOSSEE): FOSSEE
project sanctioned to IIT Bombay has been promoting use of open source software
in educational institutions. It does through instructional material, such as
spoken tutorials, documentation, such as textbook companions, awareness
programmes, such as conferences, training workshops, and Internships. Textbook
Companion (TBC) is a collection of code for solved examples of standard
textbooks. About 2,000 college students and teachers have participated in this
activity & close to 1,000 TBCs have been created in Scilab and Python
alone. website: http://fossee.in
14. e-Vidwan:
The ‘Information and Library Network’ (INFLIBNET) Centre took the initiative
called “Vidwan: Expert Database and National Researcher’s Network” with the
financial support from NMEICT. Main objective is that collect academic and
research profiles of scientists, faculty and research scientists working in
leading academic and R&D organizations in India and abroad;
15. Spoken
Tutorial: Spoken Tutorial is a multi-award-winning educational content portal.
Here one can learn various Free and Open-Source Software all by oneself. Our
self-paced, multilingual courses ensure that anybody with a computer and a
desire for learning, can learn from any place, at any time and in a language of
their choice. Spoken Tutorial Forums is a friendly online discussion forum. You
can join existing discussions or start new topics, and get lots of replies from
the Spoken Tutorial community. Registration to Forums is completely free and
takes only one minute.
Technical Education
Quality Improvement Programme of Government of India (TEQIP)
PMMMNMTT-
Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers & Teaching
Envisaged to address all issues related to teachers, teacher preparation,
teaching, and their professional development comprehensively. The Mission
caters current and urgent issues- supply of the qualified teachers, fetching
talent into the teaching profession and raising the quality of teaching at
schools and colleges level. Also building a strong professional cadre of a
quality teacher with performance standards.
RUSA: Rastriya Uchchtar Shiksha Abhiyan. It is
the Centrally Sponsored Scheme planned by the Central Government has to implement -the
strategic funding, reforms, and improvements in the Higher Education sector at
the state level.
References:
1. https://www.techwalla.com/articles/what-is-email-protocol
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2. https://www.ugcnetpaper1.com
3. https://swayam.gov.in/
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