3. The government of India has launched its National Mission
on Education, through information and communication
technology(NME-ICT) in 2009 to provide opportunity for
all the teachers & experts in the country to pool their
collective wisdom for the benefit of every Indian learners.
The three cardinal principles of education policy under this
mission where access, equity, & quality.
This mission has two major components-
Productivity & connectivity along with provision for access
device, to institution & learners.
Content generation.
4. Effective utilization of intellectual resources, minimizing
wastage of time in scouting for opportunities.
Anytime availability of desired knowledge at appropriate
levels of comprehension to all for self learning.
Systematically building a huge database of the capabilities
of every individual human resource over a period of time.
Platform for sharing of ideas & techniques & pooling of
knowledge resources.
Nurturing of scholars & learners.
Provide for connectivity & access devices, content
generation, personalization, testing & certification and
encouragement of talent.
Improving teacher’s training & course curriculum.
Multi-lingual content development for learners, where more
comfortable in those languages.
5. Providing e-books & e -journals, utilizing the repository of
the content generated so far & the automation of evaluation
process.
Spreading digital literacy for teacher empowerment &
encouraging teacher to be able on the net to guide the
learners.
Development of interfaces for other cognitive faculties which
would also help physically challenged learners.
Providing e-leaning support to every higher education
institution for technology associated learning.
Setting up virtual labs & lab centers & finishing schools for
quality enhancement.
Making broadband affordable for every learner.
Standardization & quality assurance of e-content.
Deriving lessons from our ancient knowledge base.
Guidance to learners through various
psychological/personality tests.
Single window for primary to post-graduation education.
6.
7. NPTEL, a project founded by the Ministry of
Human Resource Development (MHRD)
provides e-learning through online web &
Video courses in Engineering, Science,
Technology, Management, & Humanities.
This is a joint initiative by seven IIT’s & IIS
Bangalore. Other selected institutions also
as associate partner institutions.
8.
9. NPTEL provides courses in the form of web
courses & video lectures.These lectures utilize
a magnitude of abilities of video medium such
as chalk & talk, tablet writing, power point,
two & three dimensional animations etc.
Each course comprise approximately 40 videos
& lectures of about 1 hour duration.
An online forum is incorporated, where in
students can post & review questions.
Workshops are routinely conducted for
institutions, students, mentors etc, under the
auspices o NPTEL
10. There are approximately 921 courses (491 are
web based courses & 502 are video courses)
in various disciplines currently being offered
across Engineering, Science, Technology,
Management & Humanities
NPTEL gives opportunities for students to opt
rare courses, which are unavailable in their
ear colleges/universities.
11.
12. NPTEL contents are being used by various
educational institutions as part of their
teaching-learning process.
Faculty members are using these content as
part of their lesson plan to teach university
curriculum.
Students are using NPTEL not only to prepare
for technical jobs & competitive exams but
also as a platform for constant learning &
updating knowledge for ever changing
environment & market realities.