This presentation describes the different digital initiatives in higher education and their impact on the education sector.

1. Digital
Initiatives
in
Higher
Education
UGC – NET
Paper I
Unit-VIII
Information and
Communication Technology
K.THIYAGU,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Education,
Central University of Kerala,
Kasaragod
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2. NATIONAL MISSION
ON EDUCATION
THROUGH ICT
(NMEICT)
National Mission on
Education through ICT
(NMEICT) is a major initiative
of Ministry of Human
Resource Development
(MHRD) (Now - Ministry of
Education) to infuse digital
education solutions to
improve the access to
quality contents and also to
improve the learning
outcomes.
http://www.nmeict.ac.in/
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3. Even though various
initiatives have been
taken up under NMEICT
programme, the major
currently ongoing
initiatives like
SWAYAM
SWAYAM Prabha
National Digital Library
e-Yantra
FOSSE
Virtual Labs
Spoken Tutorials
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6. SWAYAM
www.swayam.gov.in
‘Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds’
(SWAYAM)
is India’s own MOOCs platform
offering free online courses on almost all the disciplines.
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7. SWAYAM was formally launched on 09.07.2017 by the Hon’ble President of
India.
More than 2200 Courses have been offered through SWAYAM
More than 50 Lakhs students have registered on SWAYAM platform and there are
more than 1 crore enrolments in various courses.
The framework for transfer of credits (upto a maximum of 20%) has been put
in place by AICTE and UGC by bringing out necessary regulations. With this, the
students studying in any Institution can transfer the credits earned through the
SWAYAM Courses into their academic records.
So far, about 122 Institutions/Universities have recognized the SWAYAM Courses
for credit transfer and many others are in the process of doing the same.
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9. SWAYAM PRABHA
www.swayamprabha.gov.in
SWAYAM PRABHA is an initiative to provide
32+2 (34) high quality educational channels
through DTH (Direct to Home) across the length
and breadth of the country on 24X7 basis.
Hon’ble President of India has launched the
SWAYAM Prabha on 9th July, 2017.
The contents are prepared by different MHRD
agencies like CEC, IGNOU, IITs, NIOS and NCERT.
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11. NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY (NDL)
www.ndl.gov.in
The National Digital Library of India (NDL) project has
been entrusted to IIT Kharagpur to develop the overall
framework of a facility that can provide a single
window access to learners for e-contents/resources.
The vision is to build NDL as a National Knowledge Asset
that should become the key driving force for education,
research. innovation and technology economy in India.
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13. e-YANTRA
www.e-yantra.org
e-Yantra is a project entrusted to IIT
Bombay for enabling effective education
across engineering colleges in India on
embedded systems and Robotics.
e-Yantra also helps colleges to setup
Robotics labs/ clubs to make it a part of
their routine training curriculum.
More than 275 colleges across India have
benefited with this initiative. All the
projects and code are available on the e-
Yantra website www.e-yantra.org as open
source content.
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14. e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI) is a college
level program under which colleges are helped to
setup robotics labs.
It addresses infrastructure creation and teacher
training to create an ecosystem at the colleges to
impart effective engineering education using
“Project Beased Learning.”
e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC) is a unique
annual competition for undergraduate students in
science and colleges.
e-Yantra Ideas Competition (eYIC). e-Yantra labs
volunteer upto 4 proposals for solving local
problems through automation
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17. VIRTUAL LAB
www.vlab.co.in
This initiative provides
remote access to Labs
in various disciplines of
Science and
Engineering.
There are 12- participating
institutes; IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay,
IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati, IIT
Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT
Roorkee, NITK Surathkal, COE
Pune, Amrita Vishwa
Vidyapeetham, and Dayalbagh
Educational Institute Agra. IIT
Delhi is the Coordinating
Institution
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19. FOSSEE
www.fossee.in
The FOSSEE (Free/Libre and Open
Source Software in Education) Project,
promotes the use of FLOSS (Free/Libre
and Open Source Software) tools to
improve the quality of education in our
country.
It aims to reduce the dependency on
proprietary software in educational
institutions. It is being implemented by
IIT Bombay. 19

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21. SPOKEN TUTORIAL
www.spoken-tutorial.org
This project helps everyone
learn various Free/Libre and
Open Source Software all by
oneself.
The selfpaced, multilingual
courses ensure that anybody
with a computer and a desire
for learning, can learn from any
place, at any time and in a
language of their choice.
Internet is not required to use
Spoken Tutorials. This project is
being implemented by IIT
Bombay.
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22. Even those students who are not fluent in English can learn from Spoken
Tutorials through dubbing available in all 22 languages of the Schedule 8 of
the Constitution, such as Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Gujarati, Kannada,
Kashmiri, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Sanskrit, Punjabi,
Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.
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24. NATIONAL ACADEMIC DEPOSITORY
www.nad.gov.in
National Academic Depository (NAD) is an online store
house of academic awards (degrees, diplomas,
certificates, mark sheets etc.) lodged by the academic
institutions / school boards / eligibility assessment
bodies in a digital format.
NAD is on 24X7 online mode for making available
academic awards and help in validating their
authenticity, their safe storage and easy retrieval.
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25. ShodhShuddhi
PLAGIARISM DETECTION SOFTWARE
MHRD intends to provide plagiarism detection
software to all the Universities to facilitate easy
detection of plagiarised content in the academic and
research works including articles in journals and
conference proceedings, chapters in books, theses,
research reports, assignments, project works, lecture
notes, e-text / e-content for MOOCs and LMS, etc.
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26. Based on the recommendation of Sub-Committee,
National Steering Committee (NSC) of e-
ShodhSindhu, The Ministry of Education, Govt. of
India has initiated a programme "ShodhShuddhi"
which provides access to Plagiarism Detection
Software (PDS) to all universities/Institutions in
India since Sept 1, 2019.
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28. Vidwan
https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/
Expert Database and National Researcher Network 28

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30. e-ShodhSindhu
https://ess.inflibnet.ac.in/
e-ShodhSindhu: Consortium for
Higher Education Electronic Resources
Provides access to e-resources to
Universities, Colleges and
Centrally Funded Technical Institutions
in INDIA.
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32. Shodhganga
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
Shodhganga: A reservoir of
Indian Theses
The Shodhganga@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, store, disseminate
and preserve ETDs submitted by
the researchers
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34. SAMARTH
E - Goverenence,
ICT Initiatives
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36. ANNUAL REFRESHER PROGRAMME IN TEACHING
(ARPIT)
www.swayam.gov.in
The Ministry of Human Resource Development has
officially launched Online Annual Refresher
Programme in Teaching (ARPIT) on 13th
November, 2018, a major and unique initiative of
online professional development of 15 lakh higher
education faculty using the MOOCs platform
SWAYAM.
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38. Why
MOOC?
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39. The basic philosophy of
MOOCs is 3A’s
i.e.,
Anytime,
Anyone,
Anywhere.
MOOC (Massive Open
Online Courses) is a New
Paradigm of Education
for
anyone,
anywhere,
anytime.
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40. Letter Expansion Meaning
M
Massive An online course designed for large number of participants
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41. Letter Expansion Meaning
O
Open Course can be accessed by (almost) anyone anywhere
Open as in freedom of place, pace and time
Open to everyone without entry qualifications
Course can be completed for free
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42. Letter Expansion Meaning
O
Online All aspects of course are delivered Online
(Complete Course ONLINE)
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43. Letter Expansion Meaning
C
Course The course offers a full course experience including
• Educational Content
• Facilitation Interaction among peers
• Activities/Tasks, Tests, including feedback
• Some kind of (non formal) recognition options
• A Study Guide / syllabus
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44. Categories of MOOCs
Believe in the conventional
approach where the courses are
well-structured with
pre-selected reading and
reference materials.
xMOOCS
Allow for dynamic development
of study material.
No pre-planned set of reading
materials and courseware,
Material will be developed
through online discussions and
collaborations among learners
taking the course across the
globe.
cMOOCS
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45. Four Quadrant Approach
(4)
Self-Assessment
MCQ, Quizzes, Assignments and
solutions
(1)
E-Tutorials
High Quality Video Lectures and
Multimedia Instructions and
lectures
(3)
Discussion Forum & Web
Resources
Raising of doubts and clarifying
them, Peer & coordinator
instruction
(2)
E-Content
Self-Instructional Materials /
e-books
Quadrant
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46. SWAYAM
Nine
National
Coordinators
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48. MOOCs
Major Platforms
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49. Coursera / United States
https://www.coursera.org/
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50. edX / United States
https://www.edx.org/ 50

51. Udemy / United States
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52. Udacity / United States
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53. Canvas / United States
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54. Kadenze / United States
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55. Standford / United States
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56. Future Learn / United Kingdom
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57. SWAYAM / India
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58. NPTEL / India
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59. iversity / French
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60. Cognitive Class
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61. Khan Academy /
United States
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62. EduOpen / Italy
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63. ThaiMOOC / Thailand
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64. Complexity Explorer /
United States
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65. XuetangX / China
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66. Chinese University MOOC
/ China
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67. Edraak (Arabic) / Jordan
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68. eWant / Taiwan
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69. OpenHPI / Germany
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70. Gacco / Japan
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71. Fisdom / Japan
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72. OpenLearning / Japan
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73. JMOOC / Japan
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74. Open Education / Russia
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75. K-MOOC / Korea
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76. IndonesiaX / Indonesia
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77. Prometheus / Ukraine
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78. Thank you
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