NMEICT-ePathshala-SWAYAM-SWAYAMPrabha-National Digital Library-Spoken Tutorial-FOSSEE-Virtual Lab-EYantra-NROER-SARANSH
NMEICT-ePathshala-SWAYAM-SWAYAMPrabha-National Digital Library-Spoken Tutorial-FOSSEE-Virtual Lab-EYantra-NROER-SARANSH
Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development is administering a programme ‘National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology’ (NMEICT) to leverage the potential of ICT to make the best quality content accessible to all learners in the country, free of cost. ICT in Education Curricula for students, teachers and teacher educators has been developed at the national level and being implemented across the country.The various initiatives under this programme are as under:
ePathshala : Study materials developed by NCERT in the form of eResources (audio, video interactive etc.) ePathshala, National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) and mobile applications (ePathshala). A web portal http://epathshala.nic.in/, http://epathshala.gov.in/) and mobile apps (Android, iOS and Windows) has been designed and deployed. The portal has 1886 audios, 1999 videos, 698 e-books (e-pubs) and 504 flip books.
SWAYAM: The ‘Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds’ (SWAYAM) is an integrated platform for offering online courses and covering school (9th to 12th) to Post Graduate Level. MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Courses ) have been offered on SWAYAM which can be used not only by the students but also by the teachers and non-student learners, in the form of lifelong learning. It may be accessed on swayam.gov.in .
SWAYAM Prabha: SWAYAM Prabha is an initiative to provide 32 High Quality Educational Channels through DTH (Direct to Home) across the length and breadth of the country on 24X7 basis. It has curriculum-based course content covering diverse disciplines. This is primarily aimed at making quality learning resources accessible to remote areas where internet availability is still a challenge.
National Digital Library (NDL): The National Digital Library of India (NDL) is a project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility. There are more than 3 crore digital resources available through the NDL. The contents cover almost all major domains of education and all major levels of learners including life-long learners. It may be accessed on ndl.gov.in.
Spoken Tutorial: They are 10-minute long, audio-video tutorial, on open source software, to improve employment potential of students. It is created for self learning, audio dubbed into all 22 languages and with the availability of online version. The languages are C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, PERL, Scilab, OpenFOAM, OpenModelica,DWSIM, LibreO and many more. The Spoken Tutorial courses are effectively designed to train a novice user, without the support of a physical teacher. https://spoken-tutorial.org/
Free and Open Source Software for Education (FOSSEE): FOSSEE is a project promoting the use of open source software in educational institutions (http://fossee.in). It does through instructional material, such as spoken tutorials, documentation, such as textbook companions, awareness programmes, such as conferences, training workshops, and Internships. Textbook Companion (TBC) is a collection of code for solved examples of standard textbooks. TBCs have been created in Scilab and made them available for free download.
Virtual Lab: The Virtual Labs Project http://www.vlab.co.in/ is to develop a fully interactive simulation environment to perform experiments, collect data, and answer questions to assess the understanding of the knowledge acquired. In order to achieve the objectives of such an ambitious project, it is essential to develop virtual laboratories with state-of-the-art computer simulation technology to create real world environments and problem handling capabilities. There are about 225 such labs operational, with more than 1800 experiments and benefitted more than 15 lakhs students.
E-Yantra: e-Yantra is a project for enabling effective education across engineering colleges in India on embedded systems and Robotics. The training for teachers and students is imparted through workshops where participants are taught basics of embedded systems and programming. All the projects and code are available on the e-Yantra web-site www.e-yantra.org as open source content.
National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER): This portal (http://nroer.gov.in/welcome) has been designed by NCERT. Till date a total of 14145 files including 401 collections, 2779 documents, 976 interactive, 1664 audios, 2586 images and 6140 videos are uploaded.
SARANSH : It is a tool for comprehensive self review and analysis for CBSE affiliated schools and parents. It enables them to analyse students’ performance in order to take remedial measures. SARANSH brings schools, teachers and parents closer, so that they can monitor the progress of students and help them improve their performance. It is currently available for Standards IX – XII and provides a comprehensive overview of Standard X performance since 2007 and Standard XII performance since 2009, till the current academic session.
Quick Response (QR) -To enable students, teachers, parents and educators access digital resources, QR codes have been created and integrated with printed textbooks of NCERT duly mapping eResources with each chapter of the books.
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