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- It also mentions e-content projects funded by NMEICT, including e-GyanKosh which is a digital repository of open educational resources maintained by IG
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It is a buzzword about technology and it’s application in education.
It has three major parts: Information, communication and Technology.
Key output of educational activities = contextual knowledge+ experience+ product.
Definition-
As per the United National Educational scientific and cultural organization(UNESCO,2010)
“ICT is the forms of technology that are used to transmit, store , process, create, display, share or exchange information by electronic means.”
Anderson's Model
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Definition-
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Information and communication technology initiatives in India
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Volume 1; Issue 2; May 2016; Page No. 24-26
Information and communication technology initiatives in India
Deivam M
Ph.D Scholar, Dept. of Education, Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed University, Gandhigram, Tamilnadu, India.
Abstract
With the advent of 21st
century, revolutionary changes in the communication system is occurring, every citizen of the country is
now having a communication device. Therefore, if ICT is properly utilized then there will be equal opportunity for quality
education to all the people of the country. Indian Government has taken a number of initiatives, and awarded a no. of e-content
development projects under NME-ICT for the growth and development of e-learning environment. The targeted users are not
fully availing the e-learning opportunity of such initiatives. NME-ICT creates high quality e-content for the target groups and on
the others. In this article author highlighted National Mission on Education through ICT, National Program on Technology
Enabled Learning, Gyankosh, Sakshat, Institute of Life Long Learning, GyanKosh, e-PGPathshala, and Shodhganga.
Keywords: ICT, India, SAKSHAT, NPTEL, NKN and INFLIBNET
Introduction
India is a huge country, with vast population diverse culture,
poverty ridden population with little or no access to schools.
Educational policy makers have always strived hard to
provide technology based teaching with a wider mass base
and richer instructional material. With the same view,
Educational Technology was introduced in our country in the
early seventies of the last century. Various agencies have
made good use of television to impart teaching to those
children who were deprived of quality education. Educational
television programmes have covered not only children but
also students of higher education, open universities and adult
education very successfully.
New millennium brought new technology i.e. Information
Technology or Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) to be more precise. This is more effective than
television, as it can provide two way interaction between the
teacher and the taught. If the penetration of this technology
goes deeper and deeper, then a day will definitely come,
when there will be no disparity between the child belonging
to a remote rural school and the child of a developed urban
schools. Government of India along with active cooperation
from the states is framing new policies, launching new
schemes, missions, introducing new devices on concessional
rates for the students. All these activities of the Government
are revolved around ICT.
Therefore, it becomes imperative to discuss all those efforts
the Government with ICT at the centre stage, aimed to
provide latest gadgets, network environment, content
presentation, instructional material, etc. to the children of the
new millennium so that they can also walk with their heads
high and be shoulder to shoulder with richer counterparts.
National Mission on Education through ICT
The National Mission on Education through ICT has been
envisaged as a centrally sponsored scheme to leverage the
potential of ICT. It provides high quality, personalized and
interactive knowledge modules over the internet / intranet, for
all the learners in higher education institutions of India in any
time and in anywhere mode.
The purpose of NMEICT is twofold – content generation and
connectivity along with provision for access devices for
institutions and learners. It seeks to bridge the digital divide,
i.e the gap in the skills to use computing devices for the
purpose of teaching and learning among urban and rural
teachers in higher education domain and empower those, who
have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution
and have not been able to join the mainstream of the
knowledge economy.
It plans to focus on appropriate pedagogy for e-learning
facility for performing experiments through virtual
laboratories, on-line testing and certification, online
availability of teacher’s gudie and mentor learners, utilisation
of available Education Satellite (Edusat) and Direct to Home
(DTH) platform, training and empowerment of teachers to
effectively use the new methods of teaching.
SAKSHAT is an effort of NMEICT towards creating an open
house for knowledge. The approach is to scrupulously avoid
reinventing the wheel. It is an attempt to harness a large
number of knowledge resources in a manner that adds value
to them by making them more personalized and useful to the
lifelong learner or student. The effort involves content
packaging and integration to suit specific needs of the
students at various levels or with different kinds of talent and
mental prowess.
The portal boldly seeks to address many of the shortcomings
in our education system by bringing together the best experts
in the country in their respective fields and best available
knowledge resources on the web in the public domain. It
seeks to standardize the curriculum and learning materials
across the country and keeps them in tune with the latest
trends world over so that Indian learners do not lag behind.
Teacher independent modules work wonder in remote areas
where the learner does not have access to good quality
teachers or wants to study independently. This system also
enable a lot of community learning and formation of groups
of learners of a given caliber from diverse fields to enable
fusion of best practices of one field of knowledge with those
of the other. It also galvanises rural communities who may
share their problem with each other and find solutions form
the locally available knowledge and talent.
In case, solution to problems being faced by a community are
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not forthcoming within a geographic locale, the horizon is
expanded as the SAKSHAT enables to expand the boundaries
to include even the entire world. Many educational services
like scholarships, testing and certification, student/scholar/
teacher/institution rating, guiding, demand and supply of
talent through opportunity, surveys and forecasting etc. are
delivered through SAKSHAT portal.
National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
(NPTEL) is a Government of India sponsored collaborative
educational programme. By developing curriculum-based
video and web courses the programme aims to enhance the
quality of engineering education in India. It is being jointly
carried out by 7 IITs (IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati,
IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Roorkee) and
IISc Bangalore, and is funded by the Ministry of Human
Resource Development of Government of India.
NPTEL has completed 12 years since inception and we have
850 web and video courses across 23 disciplines. The course
videos are available in streaming mode, and may also be
downloaded for viewing offline. The video files are also
viewable via the IIT Channel in YouTube. Seven IITs and the
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have worked together to
develop web and video based material for basic
undergraduate science and engineering courses in order to
enhance the reach and quality of technical education in India.
The idea of having a technology enhanced learning initiative
involving IITs and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs)
was first proposed by IISc Bangalore in the year 1999,
immediately following a Workshop on Technology Enhanced
Learning (WoTEL) conducted in Bangalore in Collaboration
with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, USA.
National Knowledge Network (NKN)
National Knowledge Network project is aimed at establishing
a strong and robust internal Indian which will be capable of
providing secure and reliable connectivity. Using, NKN, all
vibrant institution with vision and passion will be able to
transcend space and time limitations in accessing information
and knowledge and derive the associated benefits for
themselves and for the society. Establishing NKN is a
significant step towards ushering in a knowledge revolution
in the country with connectivity to 1500+institutions. NKN is
intended to connect all the knowledge and research institution
in the country using high bandwidth / low latency network.
Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET)
Centre is an autonomous Inter-University Centre of the
University Grants Commission (UGC) of India. It is a major
National Programme initiated by the UGC in 1991 with its
Head Quarters at Gujarat University Campus, Ahmedabad.
Initially started as a project under the IUCAA, it become an
independent Inter-University Centre in 1996.
INFLIBNET is involved in modernizing University-libraries
in India and connecting them as well as information centres
in the country through a nation-wide, high-speed data
network using the state-of-art technologies for the optimum
utilisation of information. INFLIBNET is set out to be a
major player in promoting scholarly communication among
academician and researcher in India.
Projects
The Ministry of Human Resource Development has created a
platform/portal named ‘SAKSHAT’ as part of the National
Mission in Education through Information and
Communication Technology. E-Content Projects sanctioned
by NME-ICT, MHRD including some other e-Learning
platform are as follows:
e-GyanKosh (http://egyankosh.ac.in/)
The meaning driven from e-GyanKosh is E=Electronic,
Gyan=Knowledge and Kosh. e-GyanKosh is a national
digital repository to store, index, preserve, distribute & share
digital learning resources developed by the Open and
Distance Learning Institutions in the country. It is
implemented and maintained by Indira Gandhi National Open
University (IGNOU). All course materials of IGNOU can
now be accessed & downloaded free of cost. The collection
comprises print & video based contents. Access of all
materials are open to all through the one time registration
process.
FlexiLearn (http://www.ignouflexilearn.ac.in)
IGNOU has introduced an open course portal called
FlexiLearn which provides a self-learning environment with a
list of academic advisors / course guides to act as mentors.
FlexiLearn provides free and easy access to IGNOU’s
courses without any charges
Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC)
(www.cec-ugc.org/)
Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) was set-
up as a nodal agency at the national level to address the
educational needs of the country through the use of electronic
media. CEC has about more than 15000 educational video
programmes in 50 subjects developed by different
Educational Multimedia Research Centers spread in
Universities and Institutions of Higher Education across
India. 22 Media Centers are working towards achieving this
goal under the umbrella of CEC. NME-ICT, MHRD awarded
the project named “Development of Courseware e-Content
for Undergraduate”. e-Learning Type Audio/Visual and Web
Based material. CEC project basically concentrates on
creation and dissemination of multimedia based learning
resources.
Virtual Learning Environment, Institute of Lifelong
Learning (ILLL) (www.vle.du.ac.in)
The Virtual Learning Environment, Institute of Lifelong
Learning (ILLL) is a unique and innovative initiative of the
University of Delhi to provide Open Educational Resources
(OER) to the teaching and learning community. VLE
provides the courses in Commerce, Humanities and Social
Sciences, History, Sciences, Interviews and Podcast.
e-PGPathshala
The MHRD, under its National Mission on Education
through ICT (NME-ICT), has assigned work to the UGC for
development of e-content in 77 subjects at postgraduate level.
The content and its quality is the key component of education
system. High quality, curriculum-based, interactive content in
different subjects across all disciplines of social sciences,
arts, fine arts & humanities, natural & mathematical sciences,
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linguistics and languages is being developed under this
initiative named e-PGPathshala. E-content so developed
would be available in open access through a Learning
Management System (LMS) set-up at the INFLIBNET
Centre as well as through SAKSHAT portal. Source:
(http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/epgp)
Shodhganga
Shodhganga is the name coined to denote digital repository of
Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations set up by the
INFLIBNET Centre. The word Shodh originates from
Sanskrit and stands for research and discovery. The Ganga is
the holiest, largest and longest of all rivers in Indian
subcontinent. The Ganga is the symbol of Indian’s age-long
culture and civilization, ever changing, ever-flowing, ever-
loved and revered by its people, and has held India’s heart
captive and drawn uncounted millions to her banks since the
dawn of history. Shodhganga stands for the reservoir of
Indian intellectual output stored in a repository hosted and
maintained by the INFLIBNET Centre.
The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET is set up using an open
source digital repository software called DSpace developed
by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in
partnership between Hewlett- Packard (HP). The DSpace
uses internationally recognized protocols and interoperability
standards. Shodhganga provides a platform for research
scholars to deposit their Ph.D these and make it available to
the entire scholarly communication in open access. The
repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate
and preserve ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations)
submitted by the researchers. Source:
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
Conclusion
Government of India has been taking tremendous step to
develop ICT. Indian country understands the digital
generation needs to empower e-learning process among
young aspiring minds. Indian Government started new
projects day by day like Shodhganga, e-PGPathshala etc. but
students utilization of this project is very less for their
academics. The main objective of this project entitled on
National Mission on Education through ICT; to spread
quality education both rural and urban areas. Ministry of
HRD started MOOCs Courses through SWAYAM Platform,
it is open to study, whoever may be undertaking MOOCs
courses and get e-Certificates. Hence, above valuable UGC
INFLIFNET Projects very valuable to students, research
scholars, all the academicians must make use of this project
for their academic and research purpose.
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