- Affordable: Online education is cheaper than formal education without compromising on quality, thanks to low infrastructure costs and large learner base.
- High Quality: Online Education is directly delivered by the best teachers, assuring high quality of instruction.
- Inclusive: Online Education addresses the rural-urban divide which is manifested by the fact that at present India has 4.5% graduates in rural areas as against 17% in urban areas.
- Employ-ability: By a flexible curriculum that is in line with the current market requirements, the online education can enhance the employ ability quotient in the youth.
- Uses internet: The penetration of IT infrastructure is expected to increase the internet users and enhance access to online courses to the youth.
- Smart Phones: Increasing penetration of smart phones, which is expected to increase from 29 Cr (2016) to 47 Cr (2021), would further facilitate the use of the online courses using the telecom spectrum.
- Higher spend: The households’ spend on higher education is going to increase in future, affording opportunity for the hitherto unreached population to the portals of higher education.
- Retraining the workforce: The pressing need of the employment sector for re-training and career upgradation as per the needs of the market is best served by online education leading to Life-long learning.
- Skilling : The Skill India Mission would certainly require online courses for reaching out to the large number of unskilled or semi-skilled population to help them to upgrade their skills. The education through digital mission holds promise since it is accessible to everyone.
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.
There are 4 quadrants in the MOOC pedagogy:
- Video tutorials covering a whole course – normally having about 20 hours of instruction in series of lectures, each lecture not exceeding 30 minutes.
- E-Content: reading material that could add to the learning imparted through the video tutorials.
- Self Assessment: Quizzes/assignments that intersperse the course.
- Discussion forum for posting queries .
Features Of SWAYAM -
1. High quality learning experience using multimedia on anytime, anywhere
basis.
2. One-stop web location for interactive e-content for all courses from School
to University level.
3. State of the art system that allows easy access, monitoring and
certification.
4. Peer group interaction and discussion forum to clarify doubts
5. Hybrid model that adds to the quality of class room teaching
Creation of the IT Platform .
Content creation Courses under SWAYAM would be available in the following levels:
LEVEL National Coordinator
School children in classes 9th to 12th NCERT
Undergraduate (non-engg.) courses CEC
Post graduate (non-engineering) courses UGC
Engineering Courses IIT
Madras Management Courses IIM Bangalore
Out of college students IGNOU
Teaching the Teachers NITTER Chennai
There are (408) courses made available on the portal prepared by
chosen professors from across the Country. Content creation Courses under SWAYAM would be available in the following levels:
LEVEL National Coordinator
School children in classes 9th to 12th NCERT
Undergraduate (non-engg.) courses CEC
Post graduate (non-engineering) courses UGC
Engineering Courses IIT
Madras Management Courses IIM Bangalore
Out of college students IGNOU
Teaching the Teachers NITTER Chennai
SWAYAM PRABHA- has been conceived as the project for telecasting high quality educational programmes through 32 DTH channels on 24X7 basis. Every day, there will be new content of at least (4) hours which would be repeated 6 times a day, allowing the student to choose the time of his convenience. The DTH Channels cover:-
- Curriculum based course contents covering diverse disciplines such as arts, science, commerce, performing arts, social sciences and humanities subjects, engineering, technology, law, medicine, agriculture etc.
- School education (9-12 levels) modules; for teacher training as well as teaching and learning aids to children of India to help them understand the subjects better and also help them in better preparedness for competitive examinations for admissions to professional degree programmes.
- Curricula and courses that can meet the needs of life-long learners or Indian citizens in India and abroad.
- IIT-PAL - to assist the students in the Classes 11 and 12 aspiring to join IITs by encouraging scientific thinking and conceptual understanding critical to answer the 'tough' questions of JEE Advanced, so that good quality students enter the portals of IITs. The four channels under this would be on Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
National Digital Library - 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.
The project aims to develop
(i) overall framework to collate large number of e-contents for school, college and higher education, e-content, virtual library, covering needs of learners with differing abilities
(ii) Design & development of “OAI-PMH” Server for Metadata Harvesting, Indexed etc.
(iii) serve as a pan-India virtual teaching-learning-evaluation-knowledge platform and for key national asset .
(iv) collect resources from other Ministries such as Ministry of Culture, Health, Rural Development & Department of Science & Technology on this portal.
(i) overall framework to collate large number of e-contents for school, college and higher education, e-content, virtual library, covering needs of learners with differing abilities
(ii) Design & development of “OAI-PMH” Server for Metadata Harvesting, Indexed etc.
(iii) serve as a pan-India virtual teaching-learning-evaluation-knowledge platform and for key national asset .
(iv) collect resources from other Ministries such as Ministry of Culture, Health, Rural Development & Department of Science & Technology on this portal.
National Academic Depository (NAD) is an initiative of Ministry of Human
Resources Development, Govt. of India (MHRD) to facilitate digital storage, access and verification of Academic Awards issued by Academic
Institutions. NAD aspires to make the vision of Digital Academic Certificates for every
Indian a reality. This touches the lives of Indian youth and empowers them
with Digital, Online, Trusted, Verifiable Certificates which are accessible in a
secure manner at all times.
E- Soudh Sindhu - is an international electronic journals and e-books are made
available to all the higher educational institutions through the e Soudh
Sindhu initiative. This allows access to be best education resources in the
world using digital mode. The INFLIBNET, Gandhinagar, Gujarat is
implementing the Scheme.
Virtual Labs Web- is enabled experiments can be
designed for remote operation and viewing so as to enthuse the curiosity and
innovation into students. This would help in learning basic and advanced
concepts through remote experimentation. Today most equipment have
computer interface for control and data storage. It is possible to design good
experiments around some of these equipment, which would enhance the
learning of a student. Internet-based experimentation further permits use of
resources – knowledge, software, and data available on the web, apart from
encouraging skillful experiments being simultaneously performed at points
separated in space .
E-Yantra -is
implemented to incorporate Robotics into engineering education with the
objective of engaging students through exciting hands-on application of
mathematics, computer science and engineering principles. Creation of
robotic platforms has been very successfully demonstrated during phase-I of
the project. Presently, e-Yantra has been implemented in 100 colleges. eYantra is creating skills by setting up lab infrastructure for project based
learning and training teachers in these 100 engineering colleges.
connectivity
A
total of 600 Universities have been connected through 1 Gbps Optical Fiber;
22026 Colleges have so far been connected with 10 Mbps bandwidth.
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.
Talk to a Teacher- is an initiative of the National
Mission on Education through ICT. These courses can be viewed absolutely free of charge at lower bandwidths
on a personal computer/laptop having a headphone and Internet connection.
Registration is not required as it does not have any evaluation/certification
process. The courses are recorded live in the classrooms of IIT Bombay and
may not reflect entire content of the course. Apart from the core courses in
engineering and computer science disciplines, the program also covers
Humanities & Social Sciences discipline.
E-Acharya (‘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.
E-Kalpa - is creating Digital-Learning
Environment for Design in India has successfully demonstrated the
achievement of the following project objectives, on completion of its phase-I:
1. Digital online content for learning Design with e-Learning programs on Design .
2. Digital Design Resource Database including the craft sector.
3. Social networking for Higher Learning with collaborative Learning Space for Design.
4. Design inputs for products of National Mission in Education through ICT.
1. Digital online content for learning Design with e-Learning programs on Design .
2. Digital Design Resource Database including the craft sector.
3. Social networking for Higher Learning with collaborative Learning Space for Design.
4. Design inputs for products of National Mission in Education through ICT.
Free and Open Source
Software for Education -
FOSSE go through instructional material, such as spoken tutorials, documentation, textbook companions, awareness programmes, conferences, training workshops, and Internships. Textbook Companion (TBC) is a collection of code for solved examples of standard textbooks.
FOSSE go through instructional material, such as spoken tutorials, documentation, textbook companions, awareness programmes, conferences, training workshops, and Internships. Textbook Companion (TBC) is a collection of code for solved examples of standard textbooks.
FOSSEE has also undertaken several new open
source software activities as well: raising Scilab toolboxes to that of Mat lab;
development of eSim, an electronic design automation software, an
alternative to ORCAD; development of Sandhi, a software for data acquisition
and control, an alternative to Lab View.
The FOSSEE team works on open source hardware projects, such as Open PLC and Arduino as well. Through all of these projects, a large number of students across the country have been trained.
The FOSSEE team works on open source hardware projects, such as Open PLC and Arduino as well. Through all of these projects, a large number of students across the country have been trained.
VIDWAN -is collect
academic and research profiles of scientists, faculty and research scientists
working in leading academic and R&D organizations in India and abroad; quickly and conveniently provide information about experts to peers,
prospective collaborators, funding agencies, policy makers and research
scholars in the country; It establish communication directly with the experts
who possess the expertise needed by research scholars; and identify peer
reviewers for review of articles and research proposals and create
information exchanges and networking opportunities among scientist.
BAADAL-Central Cloud Infrastructure set up a
robust 24X7 backed Data Centre and the activities have been put up at NIC /
NKN Data Centre, and the cloud is called ‘Baadal’. The IIT Delhi cloud is
hosting e-content and video content of e-Acharya.
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