Technology Enabled Learning in Higher Education...
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Technology Enabled Learning in Higher Education Sector in India
Dr C.S.Arora Senior Consultant (NMEICT)
more students enrolled in higher education every single day
institutions set up every single day over the past 5 years
Current Gross enrolment ratio
Total enrolment
Number of higher education institutions
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2500000
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Approved intake of BE / B.Tech in
1947
Approved intake of
UG/PG/Diploma courses under
AICTE in 2012-13
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The Challenge of Growth in Technical
Education
34,49,355
2, 500
Challenges in Quality of HE- Faculty Shortage
Creation of Technology Enabled Learning wing in Department of Higher Education
NMEICT Objective
National Mission on Education through Information & Communication Technology (NMEICT) has been envisaged as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme to leverage the potential of ICT, in providing high quality personalized and interactive knowledge modules over the internet/intranet for all the learners in Higher Education Institutions in any- time, any- where mode.
The Mission has made significant progress
since its inception in 2009 – particularly in
providing connectivity, creating e-Content, and
coming out with a low cost access device.
NMEICT Achievements so far:
A Summary (1/3)
403 universities and over 21,000 colleges (including polytechnics) in the country have been connected.
As e-Content, over 800 courses are made available in NPTEL in various disciplines in engineering and science. E-content for 77 PG subjects are assigned to be generated by UGC and 87 UG subjects are assigned to be generated by the CEC in collaboration with its media centers.
Over 125 Virtual Labs in 9 Engineering & Science disciplines, comprising about 770 experiments are currently ready for use and available at one common website.
“Talk to a Teacher” program is being deployed successfully for synchronous training of over 10,000 participants. 1500 Spoken Tutorials are available on line. Various other projects pertaining to pedagogy and teacher empowerment are in progress.
NMEICT Achievements so far:
A Summary (2/3)
A Low cost access device (LCAD) named Aakash has been successfully developed, launched and field-tested before national rollout.
The "National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (NLIST)", funded by NMEICT, provides for access to scholarly content to colleges, universities as well as centrally-funded technical institutions through its four components. The programme provides access to more than 5,000 e-journals and 80,000 e-books to all degree colleges except colleges imparting education in engineering, management, medical, nursing, pharmacy and dentistry.
NMEICT Achievements so far:
A Summary (3/3)
1 GB Connectivity
26,000 Colleges / Universities / Research Labs connected
1st Quad e-Content
PDF/e-Books/illustration ,video demonstrations /
documents& Interactive simulations wherever required
2nd Quad e-Tutorial
Video and Audio Content in an organised form,
Animation, Simulations, Virtual Labs
3rd Quad Web Resources
Related Links, Wikipedia Development of Course, Open
Content on Internet, Case Studies, Anecdotal
information, Historical development of the subject,
Articles
4th Quad Self Assessment
MCQ, Problems, Quizzes, Assignments &
solutions, Online feedback through discussion
forums & setting up the FAQ , Clarifications on
general misconceptions
Content Developed in 4 Quadrants
UG Courses
English Language (General)
Mathematics
Botany
Environmental Science
Photography (Vocational Course)
Anthropology
History
Hindi
Hindi
PG – Courses
619 modules of 23 subjects has been uploaded
D’Source
Licensing policy of created e-contents
CC-BY-SA *Commercial usage permitted
Edu ERP
Aakash II Specifications
CPU 1GHz
RAM 512MB
ROM 4GB
Battery 3000mAh
Operating system Android 4.0.4
Touch screen Capacitive
USB Micro
Camera 0.3 Mega-pixel
USB Charging
Haptic Simulators for Skill Development
Linear haptic device – APTAH – simulates about 19 tools
Rotary haptic device – CHAKRA – simulates about 21 tools
Road Ahead
Servers
e-Content developed
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213 Teaching Ends
UNICAST
MULTICAST 50 DTH Channels
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Hundreds of Subjects VIDEO ON DEMAND
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IP Delivery
TV Delivery
Proposed Lead Institute (s) for DTH
S. No Core Group (CG) Lead Institute(s)
1 Central Universities 1. Jawaharlal Nehru University 2. University of Delhi, 3. BHU.
2 IITs IIT Delhi
3 NITs NIT Bhopal
4 NITTTRs NITTTR Chandigarh
5 CEC & EMMRCs CEC
6 Open Universities IGNOU
7 IIMs Ahmedabad
8 Inst. of Nat Importance IISER Mohali
9 State & other Universities Osmania University
10 Agriculture Institutes Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New
Delhi
11 Medical Institutes All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
12 IIITs IIIT Jabalpur.
13 ICAI, NIOS, CBSE ICAI, NIOS, CBSE
Campus Connect
4.2 Lakh classrooms (21000 Colleges, each
with 20 Classrooms) will be Wi-Fi enabled.
This will help around 1.5 crore students for
accessing websites which are academically
relevant.
All the buildings of 600 Universities having 1
Gbps bandwidth will be Wi-Fi enabled. This
will help 20 lakh students.
Whole campuses of 140 CFIs of MHRD will be
Wi-Fi enabled.
National Digital Library of India
Overall repository of e-Content for e-Learning
being set up. Contents made available by
various IITs, IIMs, CUs, NITs, IISERs, NBT,
Min of Culture, National Archives, and foreign
partners like UNESCO will be collated in this.
MOOCs
MOOCs proposed through indigenously developed online platform, which will allow universities and knowledge-based institutions to upload their courses on it. 200 MOOCs courses proposed by December 2017 by about 50 Universities/ Institutions led by IITB
IIT Madras with its NPTEL partners & NASSCOM have already run 3 MOOCs certification courses of 10 weeks each, and more are in pipeline
IITB in collaboration with EdX is offereing 2 courses in 2014 to global learners from IIBombayX, as part of EdX consortium.
Cloud Computing and Central Data
Centres for IITs, CUs, IIMs etc.
MHRD is setting up a Common Cloud Computing Infrastructure in a scalable manner.
As pilot, a Data Centre at NIC with 640 Compute Cores and 50 TB of operational storage has been set up and is operational. A second deployment at IITD with 400 compute cores has just been tested.
This cloud will act as the Central data Centre for IITs, IIMs, NITs, CUs, etc
This Data Centre will be made available for Virtual Labs, ERP, AView and other NMEICT projects.
Creation of Virtual University
One Stop Portal for Students of Higher Education
Recognition for
Online degree courses
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