National educational portals in India provide a variety of online educational resources and services. Some of the major portals mentioned include INDCAT, which provides a union database of library resources; CEC and IGNOU, which offer online courses, e-content, and webcasting; NPTEL and VYAS Channel, which stream engineering courses and supplement classroom teaching; and SWAYAM and SWAYAM Prabha, which provide massive open online courses and DTH channels for education across India. These portals facilitate access to information, online learning, and educational services.

1. NATIONAL
PORTALS OF
EDUCATION
PRESENTED BY
SREELAKSHMI A
1ST M.Ed
PHYSICAL SCIENCE

2. INTRODUCTION
• Education portal is a specially designed website
that provides a host for educational services
• Portal word from ‘port’
• Port- location of multiple loading and offloading
activities
• Educational web portals provide a variety of e-
books, articles, journals, research papers, online
courses, and other educational resources

3. BENEFITS OF EDUCATIONAL PORTALS
1) Faster access to Information.
2) One tutor Can teach many Students
3) Scheduled classes help the learners login from different location.
4) Classes can be recorded and viewed further
5) Teachers be communicate through online.
6) It facilitate all the running functions of an educational institute say,
school, College or university.
7) All the data can be viewed such as Collection of fees, timetable, mark list,
Comprehensive reports, test performance, etc
8) Notification published the portal can be easily shared and viewed

5. IMPORTANT EDUCATION PORTALS IN
NATIONAL LEVEL
1. INDCAT
2. CEC
3. IGNOU
4. NPTEL
5. VYAS Channel
6. SAKSHAT
7. Shodhganga
8. Shodhgangotri
9. E-PG Pathsala
10 . Vidyamitra
11. E-shodhsindhu
12. NDLI
13. Bharatavani
14.SWAYAM
15.SWAYAM Prabha
16. VIDWAN

6. INDCAT- Indian catalogue
• A learner can get union databases of many libraries of India.
• Information about serials, theses, books, monographs, and all other
educational materials.
• It is powered by INFLIBNET – information and library network.
• The INDCAT is a major source of bibliographic information
• Used for inter - library loan , collection development, copy catalogue ,
Retro conversion of bibliographic records.
• INDCAT consist of three components available in open access to users
(i) books: over ten million bibliographic records of books from more than
42 universities.
(Ii) theses: doctoral theses submitted various Indian universities
(Iii) serials: currently subscribed journals by the universities.

7. CEC-Consortium for Educational
Communication
• Premier institution for development and dissemination of educational e-
content.
• Transforming education through new ICT based technologies with
emphasis on learner centric pedagogy for the benefit of web learners
across the country.
• CEC is the national Coordinator for Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs), SWAYAM by Ministry of Human resource and development
and Swayam prabha ;the DTH channel.
• It is equipped with web- Learning Management system (WLMS) with It's
self paced learning taxonomy.
• rich web repository in the form of e-courseware and short learning
Objects(SLOs)

8. IGNOU
web portals E gyankosh and webcast are available here
E-GYANKOSH
• It is a digital repository to
store, index, distribute,
preserve and share digital
learning resources for all
disciplines, developed by
the open and Distance
Learning institutions in the
country.
WEBCAST
• The 'webcast' - is a
Contraction of ‘web’ and
'Broad cast'
• Live Stream over an
internet.
• Gyandarshan is the
webcast channel. devoted
to education by IGNOU.

9. NPTEL- National Programme On
Technology Enhanced Learning
• Provides web-based learning to students especially engineering
students.
• Courses Contained series of videos, assignments and text files.
• NPTEL offers courses with Certificates from IITs and ISC's.
• NPTEL is a project of MHRD , initiated by seven Institute of Technology
[ Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Guwahati, and Roorkee] along
with Indian Institute of science, Bangalore in 2003.
• To provide quality education to anyone interested in learning from IITS.
• The main goal create web and video courses in all major branches of
engineering and physical science, in the undergraduate and postgraduate
levels and management courses at postgraduate level.

10. VYAS Channel
• satellite channel of MHRD for higher education
• main aim to Supplements Classroom teaching and
make quality education available for everybody.
• A website VYAS LIVE launched , on which quality
education is accessible by webcasting.

11. SAKSHAT
• Is a one stop education portal launched October 30, 2006 by
president of India to facilitate lifelong learning for students,
teachers and those in employment or in pursuit of knowledge free
of cost to them.
• The content development task for SAKSHAT was by Content
Advisory Committee [CAC] the which consist of representatives
from IGNOU, Delhi University, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
(KVS), Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS), National Institute of
open schooling (NIOS) and National council Research and training
(NCERT) and academicians in the field.
• Some NGO had also produced the content free of cost for this
portal.
• Provides e-books, blogs, webcast online chat, discussing forum, e-
journals, digital library, and digital repository.

12. SHODHGANGA
• The Shodhganga @INFIIBNET Centre provides
Platforms for the research student to deposite
Ph.D theses and make it available to the entire
scholarly Community in open access.
• It has the ability to capture, index, store,
disseminate and preserve theses submitted by
the researcher.
• It helps raising the standard and quality of the
research by checking research Plagiarism.

13. SHODHGANGOTRI
• This is repository of electronic synopsis and
research proposal which are submitted to
different universities of India for PhD
courses.

14. E- PG Pathsala
• E-Pg pathsala is an initiative by MHRD under NIME-
ICT
• The executed by UGC
• High quality, Curriculum- based, interactive e-content
in 70 subject across all disciplines of social sciences,
arts, fine arts and humanities mathematical sciences,
linguistics and languages
• Subject experts working in the Indian Universities
and other R& D institutes across the country.
• Every subject has a team of principal investigators,
paper coordinators , content writers content
reviewers, language editors and multimedia team

15. Vidya Mitra
• The INFLIBNET centre has developed. a web- based
interface called. 'vidyamitra’.
• Integrated e-content portal for all e-content projects,
developed, funded under the National mission of
Education through ICT.
• There are more than 50 projects on e- content under
NME- ICT which are developed being developed.
• Subject disciplines- science engineering, social science
through various Indian Institutes , universities and
colleges.
• The available contents are the forms of audio, video,
text, multimedia enriched materials

16. E-shodhsindhu
• Based on the recommendations of an Expert Committee, the
ministry of MHRD (Now renamed as ministry of Education) has
formed e-ShodhSindhu
• Merging three Consortia initiatives, namely UGC - INFONET Digital
Library Consortium, N-LIST and INDEST- AICTE
• Provide current and archival access to more than 7200 + core
peer-reviewed journals and number of bibliographic, citation and
factual databases in different disciplines
• From a large number of publishers and aggregators to its member
institutions including centrally funded institutions, Universities
and colleges that are coverd under Act. 12(B) and 2 (F) section of
UGC Act.

17. NDLI- National Digital Library Of India
• Project under ministry of education, govt of india, through
national mission on Education through Information on
Communication Technology (NME-ICT)
• The objective is to Collate metadata and provide full text
index from several national and international digital
libraries
• Provides free of cost access to books and designed to
hold content of any language and provide interface
support for most widely used Indian languages.
• It is developed, operated and maintained by IIT
Kharagpur.

18. Bharatavani
• Bharatavani is a project by Ministry of Education,
Govt of India and is implemented by Central. Institute
of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysuru
• Objectives of this program is to deliver knowledge in
and about all the languages India using multimedia
(ie: text, , image, audio, video)
• This portal also include dictionary, Bhashakosh,
Janakosh, multimedia kosh, in multiple Indian
languages.

19. SWAYAM – (Study webs of Active
Learning Young Aspiring Minds)
• The ministry of Human resource Development,
Govt of India had came up with a project SWAYAM
to facilitate anytime anywhere learning from
certificate level to Post graduation level.
• Launched 4th July 2017 by Pranab Mukharjee.
• The educational resources available also through
mobile app.

20. • App may be accessed by registered students
free of cost
• Provide access to hundreds of courses which
are developed on four quadrant approaches
I. Audio-video lecture.
II. Reading materials / text.
III. Self Assessment test
IV. online discussion forum
• There are nine National Coordinators who
have the responsibilities of conducting
MOOCs on SWAYAM platform.

21. Sl no National coordinator sector
1 UGC Non technology UG,PG Programs
2 NPTEL Technical Engineering UG,PG Programs
3 IGNOU Diploma and certificate
4 CEC Non Technology UG degree.
5 NCERT School Education from class 9th to 12th
6 NIOS School Education from class 9th to 12th
7 NITTR-Chennai Teacher Training Programs
8 IIM-B Management programs
9 AICTE Annual Refresher programs and International
Courses.

22. Swayam prabha
• SWAYAM PRABHA is a group of 34 DTH Channels
• devoted to telecasting of high quality educational
using will be (24x7) hours
• using CSAT-15 satellite.
• Everyday there will be a new Content for at least 4
hours which would be repeated 5 more times in a day
• Allowing the Students to choose time of their
Convenience.
• The uplinked from BISAG, Gandhinagar.
• Content are provided by NPTEL, IITs, UGC, CEC, IGNOU
• The INFLIBNET Centre maintains the web postal.

23. VIDWAN
• It is an expert Database and National Researcher Network is the premier
database of profiles of Scientists /researchers and other faculty
members working at leading academic institutions and other R & D
organizations involved in teaching and research in India as well as the
world.
• It provides important information about expert's background, contact
address, experience Scholarly Publication , skills and accomplishments,
research identities, etc.
• The database developed and maintained by information and library
Network centre and financially supported from NME-ICT.
• the database is instrumental for selection of panels of experts for various
committees , task force established by ministries or Govt establishments
for monitoring and evaluation process