Digital university

DIGITAL UNIVERSITY

AJAY KUMAR GARG

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NEXT GENERATION APPROCH TORWARDS EDUCATION

ajaygarg2006@gmail.com

ISBN: 978-84-614-7422-6

ISBN: 978-84-614-7423-3

INTED 2011 ( www.inted2011.org)VALENCIA (SPAIN)- 7TH -9TH MARCH, 2011

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE

How to deliver high quality educational content in non-traditional ways, while still keeping students interested, motivated, and focused?

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REVOLUTION VS. EVOLUTION

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PROBLEMS AND CONSIDERATIONS

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History Of Media Technology For Learning

1922: Thomas Edison predicted that the motion picture would replace textbookW.W.II: Army training film (efficiency was the consideration)After W.W.II: Television/Video Tape for Learning, but no interaction

70’s and 80’s: Computer Based Training (CBT) increases interactivity (limited to the drill and practice strategies). Stability is the concern to build CBT programs due to the rapid change of hardware and O.S.

80’s: Satellite TV learning

Early 90’s: Multimedia presentations, CD ROM titles (CAI), Internet

Mid 90’s: Intelligent/individualized tutoring, WWWLate 90’s: Distance Learning/Virtual University

The New Millennium and the Beyond: synchronized distance learning, mobile learning, virtual university, adaptive content development, remote lab, computer aided assessment, and …

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ELEMENTS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

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POLICY

PEOPLE

TECHNOLOGY• Educational Professional• Administrator• Engineer• Artiste• Student/Customer

• Network Technologies• Web Technologies• Educational Theory• Intelligent Methods• Software Engineering

• Criteria for Diploma or Degree• Standard• Intellectual Property (IP)• Classification of Virtual Universities• People/Sociological Considerations

RESEARCH ISSUES Instructor load in content development

Courseware/Platform Standard

Efficient courseware development tools

Instructor load in e-mail Q and A

FAQ summarization and auto-reply

Unbiased exam and automatic student assessment

Intelligent tutoring and individualized tests

Awareness from others at a regular interval

Universal and mobile accessibility

Remote lab and virtual lab

Scalability

Broadband and real-time communication

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Public accountabilityCompetition for studentsCost escalationsLimited resources Scarcity of information technology personnelChanging customer needsand expectations are just a few of the many

challenges facing the Higher Education early in the new millennium.

Challenges in Higher Education..

INCREASING DEMAND FOR EDUCATION

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Globally, one new big university should be built every week just to sustain current participation rates.

Building and maintenance of campuses are expensive.

Training new professors is expensive and time-consuming

DIGITAL UNIVERSITY

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DIGITAL UNIVERSITY

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Setup towards bringing all the universities under one roof

Student can have access to all the details of each university

Shrink the expenses and students can easily get quality education right on their desktop

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DIGITAL UNIVERSITYConcept comes as a boon to all the aspirants

The details of all the universities can be accessed by a click

Students can learn when and where they want.

Students can move quickly through easy material and spend more time on difficult material.

•Students practice new vocabulary and develop communication skills while working with others to complete assignments

FEATURES

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Expand the number of students

Facilitate quality assurance, learner-centred pedagogy, life-long learning

Reduce costs, the sense of isolation, brain-drain over borders

Facilitate mobility, joint study programmes and cross-cultural communication and international networks

Enable women to study from home and people in remote or dangerous areas to study within secure places

MAIN PILLARS

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VISION

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security

mob

ilitysemantic

web.

automatic

managem

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broadband

learningbusiness

aeronautics

genomics

environment

astronomy

health

science

IPv6 Grid

WEB ADDS NEW DIMENSION

Web/Internet offers unprecedented opportunities

Related to openness, accessibility, networking

connectivity, democratization, decentralization

Power of 1 billion connected people vs. 1 billion unconnected people

Wireless adds Mobility & Flexibility

Web provides Video presence & Virtual reality

Search engines, OSP, OCW, Vlabs, etc. are new tools

to train & engage the young

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COINS OF DIGITAL UNIVERSITY

3 COINS OF DIGITAL UNIVERSITY

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FUTURE WORK

In the future, network intelligence will not just relate to the creative routing of connection based on simple database look-ups, but may take on much broader meaning and provide easy access of NGN for e-Learning Process.

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REFERENCES

I.Ben Yahia, E.Bertin, N.Crespi, “Service Definition for Next Generation Networks”, ICN’06, April 2006 .

J.C.Crimi, “Next Generation Network Sevices”, A Telecordia Technologies White Paper 2004.

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THANK YOU

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