Digital
Learning: A Birds eye view of web platform in Digital India for Learning
Mr. Shiba Bhue
Librarian,
Kendriya Vidyalaya, INS Chilka, Odisha -725037
Mobile app based e
Library developed by NCERT and MHRD. One can download the apps in android, iOS,
and window and see the audio, video, text, curriculum and periodicals from
class 1 to 12th and even
contribute as educator.
Features
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Access digital textbooks
and e-resources; participate in exhibitions, festivals, contests, workshops,
etc.
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Enrich schooling through
digital textbooks, e- resources, participate in research activities
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Enhance quality through
curricular documents e- contents, participate in research activities.
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Nurture creative talents
through curricular documents, learning outcomes, digital textbooks, and
e-resources.
An MHRD, under its
National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT), has assigned work to the
UGC for development of e-content in 71 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, linguistics and languages is being developed under this
initiative named e-PG Pathshala.
The Online Labs Developed by Amrita University
& CDAC Mumbai. Funded by Deity (Department of Electronics and Information
Technology) is based on the idea that lab experiments can be taught using the
Internet, more efficiently and less expensively. The labs can also be made
available to students with no access to physical labs or where equipment is not
available owing to being scarce or costly. This helps them compete with
students in better equipped schools and bridges the digital divide and
geographical distances. The experiments can be accessed anytime and anywhere,
overcoming the constraints on time felt when having access to the physical lab
for only a short period of time.
Features
- Content
aligned to NCERT/CBSE and State Board Syllabus.
- Physics,
Chemistry, Biology Labs from Class 9 to Class 12. English and Math’s
lessons for Class 9 and 10.
- Interactive
simulations, animations and lab videos.
- The
concepts and understanding of the experiment.
- The
ability to perform, record and learn experiments - anywhere, anytime, and individualized
practice in all areas of experimentation.
Khan Academy offers practice exercises,
instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower
learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Its tackle
math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.
Math missions guide learners from kindergarten to calculus using
state-of-the-art, adaptive technology that identifies strengths and learning
gaps. Also partnered with institutions like NASA, The Museum of Modern Art, The
California Academy of Sciences, and MIT to offer specialized content.
National repositories
of open educational resources are a collaborative platform, which brings
together everyone interested in school and teacher education. Initiated by the
Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource
Development, Government of India and managed by the Central Institute of
Educational Technology, National Council of Educational Research and Training,
the Repository runs on the MetaStudio platform, an initiative of the Knowledge
Labs, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education.
Features
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Open Educational Resources mapped to
school curriculum.
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Homogeneous collections of resources.
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Device independent digital books.
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Online blended course.
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Community showcase and celebrations.
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Contribution from Individuals and
institution.
6- Swayam: Study
Webs of Active-learning for Young Aspiring Minds, India’s MOOC Platform (https://www.edx.org/)
MOOCS or
massive open online courses have made access to top university-level content
for every learner possible. By providing free online courses on demand, MOOCS
enable learners to learn from anywhere irrespective of their situation as long
as they have internet access
Currently,
SWAYAM is expected to offer three different courses - one from UC Berkeley’s
Umesh Vazarani’s and two from IIT Bombay. And SWAYAM is going to use openEdx as
its MOOC platform. Indian Institute of Management Bangalore has also joined edX
and will host online course soon
NPTEL
(National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) is a joint initiative of
the IITs and IISc. Through this initiative, its offer online courses and
certification in various topics starting from humanities to engineering.
It is the largest repository of courses in
Engineering, Science and Humanities from India's best Institutes.
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Self- study, anytime, anywhere
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Experience class room like learning from
the experts
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Knowledge is free
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largest repository of
courses in Engineering, Science and Humanities from India's best Institutes
To cater to the learning needs of more than 50 crore
people through a proposed scheme of ‘National Mission in Education through
Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The scheme is to provide
connectivity to all institutions of higher learning to world of knowledge in
the cyber space, to leverage the potential of ICT, in providing high quality
knowledge modules with right e-contents, to address to the personalized needs
of learners, in order to take care of their aspirations. These modules are to
be delivered through ‘SAKSHAT’. The scheme may also have a provision of
certification of competencies of the human resources acquired through formal or
non-formal means as also to develop and maintain the database of profile of
human resources.
The Shodhganga at INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research
students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire
scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture,
index, and store, disseminate and preserve ETDs submitted by the researchers.
Roman
Saini, a 24-year-old has done something that people of his age generally find
boring. Saini left his job in Indian Administrative Service (IAS) as assistant
collector of Jabalpur and has become an online tutor. The young mind has a
Unacademy.in platform on YouTube where he uploads lectures for candidates
aspiring to become doctors, civil servants, computer programmers. He also
shares documents on experts in foreign languages. The online teacher’s
educational works have been viewed by 1.1 crore people and has 20,000 Twitter
followers and 64,000 likes on Facebook.
Reference
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http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/trends/1598-indian-hrd-ministry-launches-a-mooc-platform-swayam
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https://www.quora.com/What-is-Roman-Sainis-vision-about-Unacademy-How-does-he-see-it-in-the-next-one-or-two-years
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http://mhrd.gov.in/technology-enabled-learning-1
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https://blog.creativecommons.org/2013/08/14/india-launches-national-repository-of-open-educational-resources/
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http://oer.nios.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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http://digitallearning.eletsonline.com/2015/09/pranab-mukherjee-president-of-india/
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http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
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Education more (January ,2016)