Learning Resource Centre
NPTEL, one of the earliest OER initiatives in the country, originated from the joint efforts of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 1999-2003.
The primary aim of this initiative is to “enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by providing easy access to curriculum-based video and web courses” in engineering and sciences, and a nominal fee is charged for certification programs.
Students are encouraged to participate in the courses provided by the NPTEL
SWAYAM is the official MOOC platform for India launched in early 2017. Professors/mentors of various premier institutions of India provide resource materials for online courses to the citizens of India.
At present, the SWAYAM platform hosts more than 300 free online courses categorized as scheduled courses and self-paced courses.
Many refresher courses are also provided through the SWAYAM platform.
e-PG Pathshala comprises good quality interactive content at Post Graduate level in various disciplines of social sciences, fine arts, humanities, mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages, etc.
There are more than 22,000 e-text and videos, from more than 5000 experts, with more than 30,000 quizzes in 70 subjects.
Students are encouraged to view the study materials for self-study purpose.
The Consortium for Educational Communication
Set up in 1993, by University Grants Commission (UGC) as one of its Inter-University Centre, Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) provides an educational program (Audio/Visual and Web-Based) and related support material for a wide range of disciplines.
Four major components of this initiative include e-Education, EMRC (Media Center), VYAS and DTH Higher Education Channels and e-Knowledge Resources.
The Spoken Tutorial, was launched in 2010 as an NMEICT initiative by MHRD, Government of India, for ‘Talk to a Teacher’ activity. This project is developed and maintained by IIT Bombay.
It promotes the development and use of various open source software by providing more than 100 online tutorials in software development and programming through its website.
Virtual Labs is one of a kind initiative of NMEICT, MHRD, Govt. of India, Virtual Labs was launched in 2012 with an objective to “provide remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering” for various education levels ranging from undergraduate, post-graduate as well as the research community.
Students can obtain multiple tools for learning, which include various “web-resources, video-lectures, animated demonstrations as well as self-evaluation”.
National Mission on Education through ICT launched FOSSEE in 2009.
There are more than 80 tutorials for different software by FOSSEE available via Spoken Tutorial.
The significant activities provided by this platform include textbook companion (port solved examples from standard textbooks using a free OSS), Lab Migration (from proprietary to open source), Self-Workshops, Conferences and Forums.
ShodhGanga is a platform developed by INFLIBNET Centre in 2014, for research scholars to assimilate their PhD theses and provide it publicly via open access.
There are approx. 206719 full-text theses available on ShodhGanga from 355 contributing universities.
VIDWAN is the premier database of profiles of scientists / researchers and other faculty members working at leading academic institutions and other R & D organisation involved in teaching and research in India. It provides important information about expert’s background, contact address, experience, scholarly publications, skills and accomplishments, researcher identity, etc. The database developed and maintained by Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) with financial support from the National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT). The database would be instrumental in selection of panels of experts for various committees, taskforce, established by the Ministries / Govt. establishments for monitoring and evaluation purposes.
A-VIEW is an award winning indigenously built multi-modal, multimedia e-learning platform that provides an immersive e-learning experience that is almost as good as a real classroom experience developed by Amrita e-Learning Research Lab. Read More
e-Yantra is an initiative to incorporate Robotics into engineering education with the objective of engaging students and teachers through exciting hands-on application of math, computer science, and engineering principles. Read More
The Quantum-Nano Centre is a multidisciplinary centre at Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra set up under MHRD National Mission on Education through ICT, with partners as IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi and IIT Madras, besides several international collaborators. Read More
The ERP mission is to Implement, maintain, improve, and support the County’s integrated financial, procurement, human resource and payroll information systems. Read More
This project is aimed to develop an automatic Indian Sign Language education and recognition platform for hearing impaired students of India. The system can substantially help in the primary/vocational/higher education of hearing impaired students and people of India. The framework is proposed to be extended to 14 different languages of India with extensive interactive features in the audio-visual mode. Read More
Project OSCAR (Open Source Courseware Animations Repository) provides a repository of web-based interactive animations and simulations, that we refer to as learning objects (LOs). These learning objects span topics in science and engineering at the college level, and maths and science at the school level. Students and teachers can view, run and download these learning objects. Read More
This project on ‘Creating Digital-learning Environment for Design’ also called ‘e-kalpa’ is sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resources, Government of India as part of the National Mission in Education through Information and Communication Technology. Read More
This project is an experiment to systematically design and develop learner-centric curricula, suitable for outcome-based learning for 4 year degree programmes in six major engineering disciplines. This project is NOT, yet another attempt to develop content, although each curriculum document is expected to include around 80 pages of course notes and 120-125 self assessment problems and solutions. Read More
National Digital Library of India (NDL India)
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) has initiated the National Digital Library of India (NDL India) pilot project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility. Filtered and federated searching is employed to facilitate focused searching so that learners can find out the right resource with least effort and in minimum time. NDL India is designed to hold content of any language and provides interface support for leading Indian languages. It is being arranged to provide support for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular form of access devices and differently-abled learners. It is being developed to help students to prepare for entrance and competitive examination, to enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from multiple sources. The pilot project is devising a framework that is being scaled up with respect to content volume and diversity to serve all levels and disciplines of learners. It is being developed at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
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