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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Approved intake of BE / B.Tech in

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Approved intake of

UG/PG/Diploma courses under

AICTE in 2012-13

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The Challenge of Growth in Technical

Education

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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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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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