Application of ICT in research.

 

Application of ICT in research.

ICTs in higher education is not only used in research and academic works but also be used for developing online course material; delivering study content and sharing content with remotely located students; communication between learners, teachers and the outside world; creation and delivery of presentation and lectures; academic research; administrative support, enrolment, test, evaluation and many more.

The role & application of ICT in research: 

Communication – How ICT has changed the way the researcher communicates with other parties. Information sharing – How quickly & easily information can be shared across the globe

Simulation – Virtual Lab & robotic experiments

Evaluation– Various tools and technology for feedback and evaluation

Application of ICT in research, Tools & Services for Research:

Google/Bing/Yahoo and many other search engines help us to find useful and relevant contents. This also helps us to explore the millions of thesis and already published articles and keeps us up to date with the latest happenings in our area of interest.

Online Tools:

Ø Google Scholar – Provides a way to broadly search for scholarly literature across disciplines and sources.

Ø Microsoft Academic Search – Find information about academic papers, authors, conferences, journals, and organizations from multiple sources.

Ø Science scope – Innovation in the exploration of papers and authors.

Ø ResearchGate – ResearchGate is the professional network for scientists and researchers. Over 15 million members from all over the world use it to share, discover, and discuss research.

Ø Biohunter – Portal with literature search, data statistics, reading, sorting, storing, field expert identification and journal finder.

Ø edu -is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company’s mission is to accelerate the world’s research.

Ø SSRN – Multi-disciplinary online repository of scholarly research and related materials in social sciences.

Ø DeepDyve- provides simple and affordable access to millions of articles across thousands of peer-reviewed journals. Content from the world’s leading publishers including Reed Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, and more. Wiki Journal Club – Open, user-reviewed summaries of the top studies in medical research.

Free Digital Library:

Ø The National Digital library of India is a project under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India. The objective is to integrate several national and international digital libraries in one single web-portal. The NDL provides free access to many books in English and the Indian languages.

Ø The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India has launched a National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER). The development of it has been a combined effort of the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, the Central Institute of Educational Technology, National Council of Educational Research and Training and Meta studio, which is the platform that hosts the Repository.

Ø Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. The Internet Archive offers over 12,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone.

Ø getfreeebooks.com   is a free eBooks site where you can download free books free. All the eBooks within the site are legal downloadable free eBooks.

 

Simulation/Lab and project management:

 

Virtual Labs project is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India under the aegis of National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). This project is a consortium activity of twelve participating institutes and IIT Delhi is coordinating institute. It is a paradigm shift in ICT-based education. For the first time, such an initiative has been taken-up in remote‐experimentation. 

Lab Suit– Inventory Management, orders Management, materials Trade-In, Price Comparison

Writing & publishing research papers:

Various online available writing tools are the needs of researchers. Tools are required to store and manage references, collaborations across labs and continents, collaborative writing tools & track of the modifications done by others to the manuscript.

Citation Styles – Find and edit CSL citation styles.

Papers – helps you collect and curate the research material that you’re passionate about.

Zotero – helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources

 Draft – Version control and collaboration to improve your writing.

Typewrite – A simple, real-time collaborative writing environment.

Science Open – Freely accessible research network to share and evaluate scientific information.

ICT in Research Sponsored by Govt. of India:

Ø India has been ranked 121st among 157 countries in terms of progress in the realm of information and communication technology (ICT) in a newly-released report of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which makes an annual assessment based on a wide range of parameters and data

Ø National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT) is a major initiative of the Govt. of India in this direction intending to leverage the potential of ICT in providing high quality personalized and interactive content, free of cost, to all the learners.

Ø The National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has, under its aegis, created Virtual Labs, Open Source and Access Tools, Virtual Conference Tools, Talk to Teacher programs, a Non-Invasive Blood Glucometer and also for simulated lab experiments, a Di. Electric frequency shifts the application development of resonator for low-cost oscillators.

Ø Institutions like IITs, IIMs, NITs, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS), Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS), National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) have been actively participating.

  

Questions.

1.    Which are not Online Tools?

(1)   Google Scholar (2) Research Gate (3) edu (4) Internet Archive

 

2.    What is full form of CARE?  ( 1) Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics (2) Composition for Academic and Research Ethics (3) Consortium for Academic and Research Education  (4) Consortium for Access  and Research Ethics