ADINET e-News Digest
No. 45 June 2018
CONTENTS Page No. PAUSE & PONDER 3 Librarians’ Day 2018 3 Now, digital universities to soon offer higher education @ Digital 4 India 2.0 When readers go digital! On the occasion of World Book day - 4 printed word against the convenience of the electronic version A pick of offbeat, non-mainstream blogs and sites 5 E Book Converters 5 Book Lovers, There's A New Open Library in Mumbai That Is Free 5 To All {And You Can Contribute Too} The Special Way Rural India is Learning to Read 6 Make Education a lifelong endeavour 7 Raising Readers @ Reading Aloud 7 You Tube Kids gets New Overhaul @ Introducing new choices for 7 parents to further customize YouTube Kids Digital Detox @ Grab a book to do - Afraid that libraries are losing 8 their appeal to the new generation, Madurai man gifts one with some special features to the city Reading Aloud @ Play & Social-Emotional Development 9 Government to offer ‘Swachh Bharat internships’ to students 9 How Technology Is Changing @ The Way Blind People Get Visual 10 Information NCERT issues guidelines to schools on cyber security 10 Your Students Learn by Doing, Not by Listening 10 Writing it with a beautiful hand! Handwriting is an important 11 developmental skill Now book Google domain name in .app 11 What parents can do to protect children from online hazards @ e – 11 KAVACH Standard Chartered launches reading app for visually impaired - 11 Effort part of the bank’s global community investment programme Maha State Agri University @ Earn While you Learn – pay students 12 for field work Tips which can make you more secure online 12 Open library for kids 13 IIT Delhi to set up three research parks 13
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 1 Common Room @ Public Libraries 14 The fine art of Book Reading 14 Study @ Impact of Internet on Education 14 The Information Diet 15 Forty-two Indian institutions have made @ THE Emerging 16 Economies University Rankings 2018 What Is the Deep Web? 16 List of top 10 best Android educational apps in India 17 Study @ How Book Vending Machines Up….Reading Habits 18 National Technology Day 2018 @ Top technologies that are 18 Impacting the Way We Think, Love and Communicate Library as a Magical Kingdom of Books & Librarian as a Miracle 19 Worker UK University to offer medical courses for surgeons in India 20 Scan and Store Your Documents Digitally @ Apps 20 Disk Cleanup Vs Storage Sense @ Tech Tip – New ways to delete 21 old files Online resource for academicians soon @ Pandit Madan Mohan 21 Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Training (PMMMNMTT)
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 2 PAUSE & PONDER Directories of Mentors, Investors, Incubators, industry information, product Studies have shown that positive reports, learning resources on ideating, thinking can help with stress marketing, finance, networking, legal, management and better health, two very strategy, case studies, and so on. The important components that are needed to libraries can also develop local subject move through life with energy and expert banks and database of various enthusiasm. government schemes supporting Librarians’ Day 2018 entrepreneurship and contact details. The libraries can thinks of developing local ADINET in collaboration with MICA, will be information resources in addition to conducting a Seminar on 25th August 2018 at MICA, Ahmedabad. providing access to international information resources. The Seminar theme is: Start-up India and Role of Libraries. Sub-theme 2. Essential Skills & Competencies of LIS Professionals to st 21 century India boasts of remarkable Support Start-up India initiatives that can catapult the economy of the country to the ranks of the developed The skills and competencies of LIS countries and one such initiative is Professionals need a total relook in developing and nurturing the Indian Start- serving the information needs of startups up ecosystem. in India. Digital literacy, information More than 10,000 technological, start-ups analysis and repackaging, researching, now exist in India. The Government communication skills (written and oral), provides many schemes, funds and policy networking, marketing, and so on are and institutional support to encourage some of the essential skills and Start-ups in the country. competencies needed by LIS The involvement of premier institutions in Professionals to make meaningful the Start-up activities includes establishing contribution to the Start-up India entrepreneurship cells and technology movement. incubators. This calls for a proactive role for libraries to actively participate in this Sub-theme 3.Types of Services to be movement and provide information Provided by Libraries for Start-up India support. Libraries need to develop innovative Dynamic Libraries can play an active role in transforming the Indian society into an services that are needed by start-ups like enterprising one by providing learning makerspaces, developing relevant spaces, maker spaces, access to Internet, information products and services, virtual access to numerous subscribed and free reference services, topical displays, meet online resources and many more services. the mentors, compiling startup trends, etc. Hence it would be useful that various Special services like information literacy Start-up schemes should be linked with sessions for entrepreneurs, effective libraries so that they provide crucial information support that Start-ups need. searching of databases, identifying relevant information resources, networking Sub-theme 1. Resources Required to with other special libraries and information Support Start-up India by Libraries centres, etc may need to be offered to start-ups. Resources required for start-ups may include Market Research Reports,
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 3 Please do attend this Seminar, submit Through Digital India program, the ministry your papers, send your Registration of IT has already started skilling program Form ASAP, before 17th August. to train people in Information Communication Technology or ICT skills. It has also been financially supporting Now, digital universities to soon offer research and development projects in the higher education @ Digital India 2.0 area of e-learning at various academic educational institutes and labs. As part of its Digital India program, the government has started the process of According to a report by KPMG and formulating a policy for digital universities Google last year, online education industry across the country. Once formulated, such will be a $1.96 billion industry by 2021 in universities will be set up to enable people India. The paid user base will grow six to access high-level education at their times from 1.6 million users in 2016 to 9.6 convenience. These universities will be million users in 2021. Reskilling and online given accreditation and courses will also certification was the largest segment in be recognized by the government, a online education at $93 million in 2016, senior official from the ministry of IT and expected to reach $463 million by 2021. electronics told DNA Money on condition Primary and secondary education of anonymity. category had the largest addressable audience and expected to become the In India, online education mainly for largest category by 2021. schools has been gaining steam over the last many years with many private players Source | Daily News Analysis | venturing into this segment. Even ministry 20th April 2018 of IT has started providing e-learning courses in some schools in villages where When readers go digital! On the there is internet connectivity. Besides, occasion of World Book day - printed many state governments have started word against the convenience of the smart classes to impart education. electronic version A draft proposal for digital universities is American novelist Ernest Hemingway had already in the works by the ministry of once said, ‘There is no friend as loyal as a human resources and development and book’. That sadly holds true only for a very has been circulated for inter-ministerial few readers today. Gone are the days views, the official said. The structure and when people would be sitting endlessly in course content of the digital universities the libraries to finish a good book, or walk will be at par with global standards. into a cool and musty smelling bookstore, past the racks full of titles. The next phase of Digital India is crucial as the government is targeting to make Nowadays, it is so much easier to browse the country $1 trillion digital economy by through the net and download books on 2022. 'Digital India 2.0' will usher in a new smartphones or Kindles. As UNESCO India, which will increase the digital celebrates the World Book Day on April economy 3.5 times from currently Rs. 20 23, we find out what readers think. to Rs. 70 lakh crore by 2022. SravanthiTalluri, founder of Write Club "The cost of education will be low through Hyderabad, feels nothing can be more online universities. Besides, the quality will engaging than a physical book. “In this be at par with physical ones. Moreover, fast-paced world of technology, books with this initiative, we can compel help us get away from the chaos of daily students, who leave studies after school, life. While one can certainly read on a to study further. One can even work while tablet or kindle or listen to an audio book, studying with such universities," the official they don’t give you the same experience explained.
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 4 of a story as a physical book would,” she own essay or presentation, but it would says. seem dishonest. Now, you have a better tool than plain vanilla Google for quick “Another thing to consider here is that it research — a new Google tool called ‘Talk would be pretty difficult for a reader to go to Books’. past 100 pages of a book on kindle or their phone. That is because you are constantly As Google explains: “when you type in a engaged on the screen and your eyes question or a statement, the model looks would get tired. This is not true while at every sentence in over 100,000 books reading a book printed on paper. That’s to find the responses that would most why people chose to read a paper book likely come next in a conversation. The before going to bed it relaxes them,” response sentence is shown in bold, along Sravanthi adds. with some of the text that appeared next to the sentence for context.” Dr J Pratyusha, a practising homoeopath and an avid Here are some of the answers Talk to reader, believes that despite the advent of Books pulled in answer to our question on technology, books haven’t lost their loneliness: “Loneliness has produced charm. “Books can never lose their charm. several public health concerns, including It’s just the easy accessibility of e-books depression, increased illness, and earlier that makes them more sought-after.” she mortality. People who self-isolate are shares. caught in the middle of a double-edged dilemma”; “Although loneliness is not The interactive nature of peripherals specifically an internalizing disorder in available with e-books is another lure. itself, it is a symptom of mood disorders Siddharth Naidu, founder and CEO of and an especially important predictor of VoxSpace, says, “If an enthusiast were to suicidality, particularly in adolescence pick up a comic book from say, (American Psychiatric Association, 2000)”; Comixology, he would find not just the Pretty good, isn’t it? comic but also trivia, games, quests and much more in this digital version. Another Source | Times of India | 22nd April 2018 reason for the switch is that while parents want their children to inculcate a reading E Book Converters habit, they don’t have the time to spend with them. So, they simply buy digital If you are an avid reader and don’t want to alternatives to keep the children engaged.” be tied to a particular platform, you’ll need a tool to convert your e-books to different Author Sriram Karri agrees, saying India formats. While truly excellent free e-book doesn’t have many readers. While the converters are hard to come by, here are author prefers printed books, he believes some of the best you can choose from. that any form of reading should be These e-book converters will handle all encouraged. common formats – PDF to Mobi, Kindle to Epub, Epub to Mobi, and virtually any Source| https://www.deccanchronicle.c other combination you might need. om Source | Economic Times | 23rd April A pick of offbeat, non-mainstream 2018 blogs and sites Book Lovers, There's A New Open Is loneliness bad? If you google the Library in Mumbai That Is Free To All question, your first few answers will be {And You Can Contribute Too} links to general articles that quote researchers, or people’s views on Quora. Book lovers, a special library, You could use some of these to write your
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 5 The Open Library Project, is now a reality of World Book Day, where the overarching in Mumbai, and it is free to one, and all. theme is ‘Share a Story’, Tata Trust’s The Open Library Project has been started motto of inculcating reading habits for less off by Mumbai entrepreneur, Satyajit Roy privileged students is a timely reminder of who will be running this library out of his what’s at stake. office in Worli. The idea behind the library is simple, and rather utilitarian, in the next “Tata Trusts through its work on early three months, the library will stock at least literacy works on capacity building of 500 books {mostly non-fiction} that can be primary school teachers, providing them borrowed by anyone completely free of knowledge, skills and onsite support to cost. support children from non-literate background to become proficient readers For Satyajit, the library will aim to stock and writers. This work is supplemented by books that will create a space for the Parag initiative that focuses entrepreneurs to have access to genres on development of storybooks in Indian that will inspire other entrepreneurs. Find languages, setting up of libraries and auto biographies, success stories of running professional development courses companies/people, and people who're out for librarians and illustrators. This is to there doing well in the start-up/ business address multiple gaps in the children space. Though not limited to business or literature sector,” says Amrita Patwardhan, start-ups, the books included will be on Head of Education and Sports at Tata varied topics like gardening, landscaping, Trusts, speaking to The Better India. surfing, and other unconventional fields that ought to be explored more. Besides English, Tata Trusts has laid its focus on supporting the development of More Details Available @ Book Lovers, engaging reading material/books in many There's A New Open Library In Mumbai mainstream vernacular languages like That Is Free To All {And You Can Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Urdu, Contribute Too} | LBB and Gujarati. Tribal languages such as Bhili, Pavri and Mundari have also The Special Way Rural India is become a major focus. Learning to Read These children literature books touch upon In its Annual Status of Education Report multiple themes—biographies, women’s (ASER) 2017, the Pratham Education empowerment, and nature. There is also a Foundation, a non-profit working towards great deal of emphasis on folk literature improving learning outcomes for rural for children from 3 to 14 years, besides children, found that nearly 25% of rural the dissemination of picture books, poetry, youth between the age of 14 & 18 cannot fiction, non-fiction and folk tales. read in their own language. “It is important that the young children are What this story tells us is that a lot of supported by adults in their early attempts children are falling through the cracks of at reading and writing. With the vision of our public education system. Besides building a community of readers, we uncertain economic outcomes for students chose to take libraries to the communities growing up in the system, the inability to rather than restrict them read in their own language has the to anganwadis and schools,” says Amrita. potential to shatter their self-confidence— the one human characteristic that has the Every book sent to a particular school potential to change lives drastically. library is chosen with great care. These schools are also given tin boxes to keep When children hear or read stories at the books, stationery, and art material. home or in school, they begin to One volunteer from the block undergoes enjoy process of reading. On the occasion
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 6 selection and training in the upkeep of a Kindergarten helps build the foundation for library. future academic, social and emotional achievement, says Anjali Kalani This volunteer goes to the assigned government school and disseminates Benefits of Reading Aloud reading material from Class 1 to 4. For students up to Class 7, books are lent out, It strengthens brain development, while even some adults are allowed to do promotes literacy skills and the same. On school holidays, these prepares children for school libraries are painstakingly shifted in and Expands vocabulary, which helps out to the librarian’s home or Anganwadi children communicate room, thus leaving the books available all confidently year round. Leads to a nurturing relationship between parent and child Thus far, Parag has supported the Increases concentration and better development of 680 books with an listening skills estimated readership of 40 million across Promotes creativity and a wider ten states. Tata Trusts supports publishers knowledge base meet the cost of developing the books. But Provides a gift of a life-long the cost of the paper, enjoyable pursuit. printing and marketing is met by book sales. ” says Amrita. Source | Afternoon | 26th April 2018
Developing foundational literacy skills You Tube Kids gets New Overhaul through spreading the joy of reading over @ Introducing new choices for parents one or two generations of young students to further customize YouTube Kids could very well improve learning outcomes for rural children. Moreover, it will give We are excited to announce that them some semblance of the confidence throughout the year, we will be rolling out required to take on the world. three new options in YouTube Kids:
Source| https://www.thebetterindia.com Collections by trusted partners /138837/parag-rural-india-tata-trusts- and YouTube Kids: Starting learning-read-world-book-day/ this week, our partners and the YouTube Kids team will offer Make Education a lifelong endeavour collections of trusted channels on a variety of subjects from arts Too many workers lack the skills & crafts and music to sports, employers demand. Here's how to learning, and so much more. help. As the pace of technological change This makes it easy for parents to accelerates, so will the need to educate, select only the channel and re-educate, workers. The long-term collections and topics they want goal should be to revolutionize educational their kids to access. Just go into systems -- to make them places that Profile Settings, and select from adults revisit, as needed, throughout their available collections such as working lives. Sesame Workshop and PBS KIDS. We will continue to add Source | Financial Chronicle | 24th April more partners over time. 2018 Parent approved content: Parents know better than Raising Readers @ Reading Aloud anyone what they want their children to watch. For those Reading aloud to your child for a minimum parents who want even more of 15 minutes a day from birth to at least control over the videos and
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 7 channels in the YouTube Kids free of cost. He has tied up with courier app, we’re rolling out a feature companies and is also in talks with India later this year that will allow Post for reaching the books to his valued parents to specifically handpick members as they grow by the day in every every video and channel nook and corner. available to their child in the app. Improved search-off control for Readabit.in was launched on April 18 and an even more contained by World Book Day (April 23), more than experience: Parents have 50 members had registered. “I only shared always been able to turn search my idea with a few friends and people off within the YouTube Kids app, from Dindigul, Sivakasi, Chennai enrolled. but starting this week turning The immediately positive response has search off will limit the YouTube made me realize that libraries can still give Kids experience to channels that a competition to iPads and mobiles,” he have been verified by the adds. It has also propelled him to attempt YouTube Kids team. This means Guinness record for that search off will not include enrolling maximum number of members recommendations from the in single day. “The big day is on June broader YouTube Kids corpus. 10 and Guinness officials have set a benchmark of 1,200 members but I am Announcement Available targeting 5,000,” he informs @ https://youtube.googleblog.com/201 8/04/introducing-new-choices-for- People from the neighbourhood have parents-to.html?m=1 already started visiting the library though it is established as an online library which Digital Detox @ Grab a book to do - readers can browse from anywhere to Afraid that libraries are losing their choose a book from Readabit’s catalogue. appeal to the new generation, Madurai They can also recommend books of their man gifts one with some special features choice to other readers or suggest one to the city that they themselves want to read and Govarthanan promises to promptly add A year ago T.S.Govarthanan chucked his them all to his bookshelf. job as director of a pharmaceutical company to start a library. His teenaged “Libraries are safe places to find son was the reason he says.“We earlier empowering and transformative lived in Vellore and my son grew up as an information,” he says and quells doubts avid reader as there were no kids of his about the online access to books. Though age to play around with in our locality. But he is stocking several popular and best four years ago when we came to Madurai, sellers underfiction and non-fiction for he changed, sucked in by peer pressure adults as well, Govarthanan’s focus is and technology,” he says. To distract his mainly on children’s reading habits. And son from gadgets, Govarthanan he is encouraging memberships from purchased books worth Rs.35,000 in one schools and colleges. He year for the boy.“He returned to books, but says Readabit will give the unique logins I realized not every parent can buy books only to the parents while for every 100 worth so much money and not every home students of a school one teacher will get has enough space to keep so many admin login. “This is to ensure cyber books,” he adds. safety and keep a check on what books are read by students,” he adds. And so after 12 months of research, study and surveys, he conceptualized Developing a reading habit ‘Readabit.in’ as an online library that with online library is extremely would deliver books to readers at their economical, asserts Govarthanan. “Those doorstep anywhere across the country who do not find time to visit a library can
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 8 save time, money and shelf space by An internship report needs to be submitted renting books,” he says and adds, by the candidate on the online portal “community engagement is important to through the supervisor within 15 days of keep the libraries going.” completion of fieldwork. Students will be categorized into two clusters — Source| http://www.thehindu.com/socie information-education ty/afraid-that-libraries-are-losing-their- communication (IEC) activities and solid appeal-to-the-new-generation-madurai- waste management related activities. man-gifts-one-with-some-special- features-to-the-city/article23696106.ece Source | Times of India | 29th April 2018
Reading Aloud @ Play & Social- April 29, 2018 a project of Service Space Emotional Development If the cause of poverty is “We think of reading in lots of different marginalization, the ways, but I don’t know that we think of cure is inclusion. reading this way,” said Dr. Alan - -Richard John
Mendelsohn, an associate professor of paediatrics at New York University School Neuhaus- - of Medicine, who is the principal investigator of the study, “Reading Aloud, The 12-Year-Old Who Brought Play and Social-Emotional Development,” Education to His Community published in the journal Paediatrics. Life is often difficult for children of poor or outcast communities in India. They may Study Available not be afforded the same opportunities as @ http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/ those from more mainstream groups, and content/pediatrics/early/2018/04/05/ped so often become wary out outsiders, even s.2017-3393.full.pdf if they mean well. But there are people in these communities who are willing to take Government to offer ‘Swachh Bharat a risk to find a better way of life for internships’ to students themselves and those around them. The Narikurava are one of these communities; The ministry of human resource an indigenous group known for their development (MHRD) will offer “Swachh hunting skills, they became stigmatized Bharat Summer Internship — 100 Hours under The Criminal Tribes Act of 1871, of Swachhata” to students of universities introduced by the British. Although India and higher education institutions this has since gained independence, and the academic year. Act was repealed in 1949, many groups like the Narikurava still battle stigma and The internship, meant to improve bigotry daily. However, in the southern sanitation and hygiene in villages, will give Indian state of Tamil Nadu, one boy is students a chance to win cash awards up working to bring education and opportunity to Rs 2 lakh and two academic credits. to his community. { read more }
In his letter to the heads of universities Be the Change and higher education institutions, MHRD higher education secretary, R What marginalized communities are in Subrahmanyam wrote, “The internship is your area? It could be a specific tribe or open only to the registered students of the culture like the Narikurava, or group of higher educational institutions... A website people in a common situation like the poor has been developed for the purpose of or homeless. Take a few minutes out to registration and reporting throughout the stop and say hello, and learn more about internship period...” them. After all, at the end of the day, we are all human.
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 9 How Technology Is Changing @ The The National Council of Education Way Blind People Get Visual Research and Training (NCERT) has sent Information the detailed guidelines to schools defining the role of teachers as well as parents in Many of the apps on your smartphone are promoting safe, legal, and ethical use of for fun — or distraction. But there are apps internet by students. out there that do good and help people with a disability. For the blind or visually NCERT @ Tips on Cyber Safety & impaired, there's Be My Eyes, an app that Security asks a sighted person for help via a video call. Guidelines for Students (http://www.ncert.nic.in/pdf_files/Guideline App @ Be My Eyes, How it works s_Students.pdf)
Every day, sighted volunteers lend their Guidelines for Teachers eyes to solve tasks big & small to help ( http://www.ncert.nic.in/pdf_files/Guideline blind & low vision people lead more s_Teachers.pdf) independent lives. Guidelines for Schools Blind or low vision person requests (http://www.ncert.nic.in/pdf_files/Guideline assistance s_Schools.pdf)
As a blind or low vision person, whenever Source| http://www.ncert.nic.in/iss.html you need visual assistance, our volunteers are happy to help. Through the live video Your Students Learn by Doing, Not by call, you and a volunteer can Listening communicate directly and solve a problem. The volunteer will help guide The word suggests that our job as faculty which direction to point your camera, what members is to put new knowledge into our to focus on or when to turn on your torch. students’ heads. But in my experience the best learning occurs when students teach Sighted volunteer receives video call themselves — when they discover something on their own. And that’s what As a sighted volunteer you can help just happened in this medical study. by installing the Be My Eyes app. A blind or a low vision user may need help with Small class sizes? Fewer lectures? More anything from checking expiry dates, active-learning activities? Does any of that distinguishing colors, reading instructions sound familiar? Students are most or navigating new surroundings. successful in our courses when they learn for themselves — much as the participants Join the community! in this study did. The trick for all of us in academe is designing courses that help Be My Eyes’ goal is to make the world students do that. more accessible to people who are blind or have a low level of vision. We couldn’t Full Article Available do this without the help and dedication of @ https://www.chronicle.com/article/Your- our community. Students-Learn-by- Doing/243277?cid=at&utm_source=at&ut Source| https://www.bemyeyes.com/ m_medium=en&elqTrackId=321a1079c83 04acf99971271a838cda4&elq=bf7162ad4 314434298f5503526671c31&elqaid=1890 NCERT issues guidelines to schools 0&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8526 on cyber security
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 10 Writing it with a beautiful hand! What parents can do to protect children Handwriting is an important from online hazards @ e - KAVACH developmental skill Entrepreneur Noopur Raghunath, who has Understanding the techniques and some developed the digital parenting serious practice can help students acquire application e-KAVACH, says parental- good handwriting control software enables content filtering and safe search, monitors games and Shameem Khan You may not be born with other applications, sends parents alerts for a flair for good handwriting, but it can be boundary breaches, and tracks children acquired if you really want your written with geo location. Parents can monitor word to stand out. After all, handwriting is their children’s online an important developmental skill. activities by: Warning them about not clicking on links from strangers, not Why good handwriting is important? sharing personal information, location and Handwriting is said to activate the brain photographs with strangers. Monitoring more than using the keyboard because it their browsing history and reviewing or involves more complex motor and resetting their privacy settings with cognitive skills. consent. Staying informed on the latest apps, social media platforms and slang Source | Mid Day | 2nd May 2018 used by children and teens. Establishing rules about the amount of time children Now book Google domain name in .app can spend online or on their devices. Watching for altered behavior like excessive moodiness or secretiveness, Just like .com or .org, Google has now changes in eating and sleeping patterns, rolled out ".app" top-level domain (TLD) and academic decline. for app developers who can book the domain name from Google Registry. Source | Mint | 3rd May 2018 A TLD is the last part of a domain name, Standard Chartered launches reading like .com in “www.google.com” or .google app for visually impaired - Effort part of in “blog.google”. “.app that comes with added security is the first top-level domain the bank’s global community investment (TLD) to require HTTPS encryption,” programme Google said in a blog post on Tuesday. A key benefit of the .app domain is that Standard Chartered Bank has joined security is built in. “The big difference is hands with Daisy Consortium, a network that HTTPS is required to connect to all of not-for-profit organizations from 55 .app websites, helping protect against ad countries, to launch a unique digital malware and tracking injection by ISPs, in initiative ‘Simply Reading’ app. addition to safeguarding against spying on open WiFi networks,” Google said.Till May This cost-effective and flexible app, an 7, users can register “.app” domains India-led initiative, seeks to make digital through Google’s “Early Access reading convenient for low vision and Programme.” Users can also pay more to visually impaired people, Karuna Bhatia, secure other domains before the general Head of Sustainability, SCB, told public can get to them, the search-engine BusinessLine here. giant confirmed. Google acquired the top- level domain (TLD) “.app” in 2015 for $25 Available for free on Android (Google million. Play), this app enables the visually impaired to directly download and read Source| https://www.financialexpress.c books from any online platform such as om/world-news/now-book-google- SugamyaPustakalya and Bookshare. domain-name-in-app/1152973/
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 11 This effort is part of SCB’s global ‘Seeing accuracy of their predictions to ensure that is Believing’ initiative, which is this bank’s farmers get right warnings and crop losses global community investment program to are prevented. tackle visual impairment and avoidable blindness. Fadnavis also asked all the banks to ensure that the farmers who had been “This year is special as it marks the 15th given loan waiver are extended credit as anniversary of ‘Seeing is Believing’ well. The government is aiming to reveal programmers. While we are launching this an agriculture credit plan of Rs 62,000 app in India, it will be available anywhere crore this year. internationally through Google Play,” Karuna said. To begin with, SCB and Minister for dairy development Daisy Consortium are eyeing at least MahadevJankar said that the state 50,000 downloads, according to government had worked out a plan to bail Karuna.She also said that SCB will strive out the loss-making milk industry as well to put a digital element in all its future as the farmers who are dependent on it. community programs. Source | Times of India | 6th May 2018 From 2003 to 2017, SCB has in India provided over 13 million eye care Tips which can make you more secure interventions through the network of 125 online vision centers across 22 States catering to people in the urban, rural and remote It will protect the security of your devices, parts of the country. One estimate puts your data, internet traffic, and your online India is home to about 5.3 million people identity with blindness or low vision.
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Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Use passcodes even when they Saturday asked agriculture universities in are optional the state to start a unique “earn while you learn” scheme where students would be Pay with your smartphone roped in to carry out ground-level work to create awareness among farmers in the state and paid a stipend for it.Fadnavis Clear your cache said that as a part of the stipend plan, students could be used to send advisories Do not fall prey to click bait to farmers, collect data and disseminate th information to ensure a better year for the Source | Economic Times | 8 May farmers. 2018
“We need to create a mechanism for Open library for kids speedy communication to the farmers so that they can make the right decisions and Bhowanipore: The outer wall of a school avoid losses,” said Fadnavis.He also in south Calcutta will be converted into a asked weathermen to increase the library for children.
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 12 Vidyanjali International School will start One on campus; two in Haryana the street library on its premises. The shelf on Ram Mohon Dutta Road will stack up New Delhi, May 7 Indian Institute of to 1,500 books, including fiction, non- Technology Delhi (IIT-D) is setting up fiction and magazines, primarily for three research parks to facilitate design children of the locality who can't afford and development of advanced technology, books. incubate more start-ups and promote industry collaboration. "The idea behind the open street library is to encourage and revive reading among Research parks will come up on IIT Delhi people. There are underprivileged children campus and in Sonepat and Jhajjar in who cannot afford books... this initiative Haryana. The parks are funded by the will give them an easy access to books," college and managed by the Foundation SaswatiDatta, principal of the school, said. for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT). The library, which is coming up in association with a management institute, FITT is one of the oldest technology will be inaugurated on Sunday. innovation centers established in 1992. It launched the Technology Incubator The organizers aren't worried about books Program in 2000 to promote being stolen. Even if books are picked up entrepreneurship, but it is only now that by people who don't intend to return, the the institution is setting up research parks. good part is they would perhaps read the books and it would serve the objective of a Knowledge transfer street library, she said. Anil Wali, Managing Director, FITT, One such library has been started about a explained that while the organization is couple of months ago on the balcony of old, the research parks are a response to the principal's home. "I have not seen growing demand not only from Delhi but books disappearing or being stolen." also from the surrounding regions. The objective of the parks, Wali said, is to Students, teachers and anyone who establish avenues of engagement with wishes to contribute will provide the industry, transfer knowledge and create books. value.
"Our students, too, can borrow and The research parks will have research & contribute books. There are many books development labs, set up by corporates that they have already read and they can jointly with IIT Delhi, incubators, Impact donate them to this library," Datta said. Lab for Path, a global health innovation hub, high-end central research facility and The library won't have any catalogue or Centre of Excellence in Smart membership fees. manufacturing. In addition, the research parks will have training centers and The responsibility of reading the books convention facilities. and returning them is on the readers, she said. Sonepat facility
Source| https://www.telegraphindia.co The first phase of the Sonepat research m/calcutta/open-library-for-kids- park is completed and can incubate 228200 around 15 start-ups. It also has residential facility, which the start-ups IIT Delhi to set up three research parks can use for a fee. So far, four start-ups have been incubated. Around ₹175 crore has been invested in the first phase.
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 13 “We are planning the second phase that Full Info will be able to accommodate close to 100 @ https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/TheCo start-ups,” Wali said. “We are waiting for mmonRoom environmental clearance for the one coming up at IIT Delhi, which should come The fine art of Book Reading any time now,” he said. Once the approval is obtained, Wali said, the park will be To some in the older generation, there is operational in 18-24 months. perhaps nothing more pleasurable than turning the pages of good book, one after It can also house 100 start-ups and close another, slowly wading through the words to ₹140 crore has been invested. The as they conjure up images and ideas in proposed third research park at Jhajjar is one’s brain. likely to take time due to delay in land deals, he added. Yet, strangely enough, with the coming of social media, the Internet and book- Start-up incubation reading apps like Kindle, not to mention good old television, the time we can afford FITT has so far incubated 82 start-ups and to spend on having a leisurely read has works with establishments such as the dwindled, don’t you think? And as the Department of Science and Technology, pace of life further intensifies and people Biotechnology Industry Research are involved in the race for education, Assistance Council (BIRAC) and homemaking and prosperity at the Technology Development Board for workplace, book libraries have all but funding and partnerships. In addition the become extinct as have second-hand organization also protect, maintain and bookshops. The world does change but commercialize patents. there are many who still swear by the art of reading the old-fashioned way, even if FITT has filed for 630 patents so far and they exist mainly in the older generation. around 5 per cent has been commercialized, generating a value of ₹2- We found this cute cartoon by Bill 3 crore. Whitehead that raised a chuckle within us and we share it with you – it might well be Source | Business Line | 8th May 2018 the scenario for book reading in the near future, if it isn’t already? Common Room @ Public Libraries PR @ Afternoon | 9th May 2018 Nick Poole, Chief Executive of CILIP – the UK’s library and information association – spoke at the joint CILIP Ireland and Library Association of Ireland conference on 19 April 2018
Imagine a room. It's a simple room, this room but it is wondrous nonetheless. It is wondrous because it belongs automatically to anyone and everyone that wants to make use of it.This room of ours belongs to the young mum who can't take Study @ Impact of Internet on five more minutes cooped up indoors with Education the kids. It belongs to the 55-year-old man whom life has brought low, who spends A recent study by the Delhi-based NGO, his nights in a homeless shelter. It belongs Consumer VOICE found that the average to the young entrepreneur with limited 4G internet speed is India is not even funds but unlimited ambition.
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 14 5 mbps and the most recurring problem caused a permanent shift in thought reported by the respondents with respect processes and patterns. One of the to their internet services is ‘low speed and greatest problems arising from information poor connectivity’. The study also overload is the inability to think for identified factors relating to ‘Education’ ourselves. Most people accept at face that are impacted by the quality of internet value the information they consume. They and are given below- fail to consider its validity or value.
Access to information & global They don’t think beyond the words on the databases screen. Information is like food. Consume too much Twinkie information (information Enhancing skills & learning that looks good but has no real value) and your mind begins to bloat and slow down. Performance/ result improvement Consuming good information causes you Attending online courses and live to think, stimulates brain activity and tutorial/ chatting sharpens focus. Our brains must find ways to filter all the information we are force- Taking competitive exams/ tests feeding them or they will go into overload and shut down. Preparing projects/ assignments/ reports Like a muscle, the brain needs exercise to continue to function at a peak state. Providing online material to Feeding our brain nothing but junk food is students a recipe for disaster. An interesting way to see how much exercise your brain is getting is to create an information Ease of data collection consumption log. Study Available The information consumption log functions @ https://www.consumer-voice.org/wp- like a diet plan. It helps you track the content/uploads/2018/02/volume-i.pdf information you consume in a day. For
th example, a typical day may look like this: PR @ Financial Chronicle | 9 May 60 minutes reading emails, 45 minutes 2018 reading blogs or newspapers, 30 minutes Googling information and 120 minutes on The Information Diet social media.
Information, it is everywhere. I can’t I challenge you to spend a couple of days escape its intoxicating pull each time I filling out an information log and see what come across an interesting article or news your consumption patterns look like. The topic. The problem is that I consume too results will surprise you. To overcome the much of it. I am bloated and lethargic from overload an information diet is necessary. “eating” too much of it. Our digital society has many pitfalls. It will also give you energy for important things. Go ahead, give it a try, you have Our obesity rates are rising; attention nothing but a few brain cells to lose. spans are shortening and our ability to think is diminishing. Visit with any school Source | https://idahostatejournal.com/ teacher and they will tell you today’s kids are wired differently.
The constant barrage of electronic stimulus has re-wired brains. It has
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 15 Forty-two Indian institutions have made rankings/2018/emerging-economies- @ THE Emerging Economies University university- Rankings 2018 rankings#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/ran k/sort_order/asc/cols/stats India remains the second-most represented nation — after China — PR @ Economic Times | 10th May 2018 among the 42 countries across four continents in the Times Higher Education What Is the Deep Web? (THE) Emerging Economies University Rankings 2018. The Deep Web describes the hidden parts of the internet that can’t be found using Forty-two Indian institutions have made it search engines such as Google. There’s a to the 2018 table, a significant increase vast amount of data on the Deep Web, from 27 in the previous year. Times Higher including some perfectly everyday stuff, Education ranking comprises more than such as the contents of your own webmail 350 universities, expanded from 300 last inbox. The Deep Web is victim to a lot of year. misconception, though, and is frequently confused with the Dark Web, and its own Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, at associated illegal activities. number 13 (up from 14) has taken the top spot among the Indian institutes, while There’s far more data hidden – around several others, too, have climbed the 500 times more – on the Deep Web than charts, including IIT Kharagpur which has what’s on the standard “Surface” Web. jumped 26 places to break into the top 50 But, unlike the latter, this data isn’t at No. 45. IIT Bombay maintains its indexed by search engines, so can’t be position at number 26. found by typing a few phrases into Google. “India has reached a pivotal juncture. It is ambitious and has undoubtedly the Don’t worry, it’s not as scary as it sounds. potential to emerge as a key player in We explain everything you need to know global higher education in the coming about the Deep Web: What it is, how it years,” said Phil Baty, editorial director of works, how it’s different to the Dark Web, the THE Global Rankings in a statement. and what everyone gets wrong about it.
On the flipside though, the majority of You can’t get to every single webpage on India’s previously-ranked institutions have the internet through a search engine. No, slipped in the rankings, and both IIT not even with Google. A search engine Madras and IIT Delhi have fallen out of the works by tracking links: It finds pages by top tracking which ones have been linked to from another webpage and prioritizes the 50. The nation remains the third most ones that have been linked to the most represented in the Top 200 — behind often.----- China and Taiwan – but it has slipped to the 17th spot from 19th. China continues to The Deep Web vs. The Dark Web dominate the overall ranking: it has 63 institutions represented — up from 52 in “If you’re on the Deep Web, you’re the previous year. For the fifth consecutive exploring the wild west of the internet. If year, Peking University leads the table, you move into the Dark Web, you’re with Tsinghua University ranked at choosing to walk into the bandit’s den on number 2. the far outskirts of town.” The Dark Web is effectively a subset of the Deep Web. Ranking Available Although the two terms are sometimes @ https://www.timeshighereducation.c used interchangeably, this isn’t correct.---- om/world-university-
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 16 Not So Hidden, After All In other words, thousands of databases on the internet — all of which are free to Since it’s designed to be hidden, the Dark access — can’t be found by Google or Web is actually easier to identify than the Bing. disparate elements that make up the Deep Web: Dark Web users often host their Useful databases that commonly escape sites on the “.onion” domain rather than search engines’ notice include census the “.com” one, as this domain is only data, patient lists, insurance information, accessible through a Tor browser (Tor is and scientific papers. short for “The onion router”). Three Misconceptions about the Deep Unlike the Deep Web, the Dark Web is Web:- fairly small, and likely just a 30 or 40 thousand sites — more criminal activity “Have a Gmail, Hotmail happens on the rest of the internet than on or Outlook.com email address? Then the Dark Web, simply because the regular you’re already using the Deep Web.” internet has billions of users. The name “Deep Web” makes the topic How the Deep Web Works sound intriguing. After all, it’s easy to fear the unknown. People assume that if a “Thousands of databases on the internet search engine can’t find information on the — all of which are free to access — can’t internet, it must be important and could be be found by Google or Bing.” There are a dangerous. few different reasons why a page or the data it holds might not be indexed by a Misconception #1: The Deep Web is search engine. Illegal---
It intentionally doesn’t use http:// Misconception #2: The Deep Web is for or https:// protocol, opting for a Experts Only--- non-standard protocol, such as a .onion domain. Misconception #3: The Deep Web Can’t It is password-protected — this Be Searched--- includes subscription services, private social media accounts, How You Can Use the Deep Web--- and everyone’s Gmail inbox. It is hidden behind a CAPTCHA or How to Search the Deep Web--- similar machine-input filter. It simply hasn’t been linked to by Source | https://tech.co/what-is-the- any other online page. deep-web-2018-05 The data is only accessible through a database query. List of top 10 best Android educational apps in India Deep Web Databases The world is shrinking, now the world is The last possibility is why the Deep Web just a few clicks away. The education is holds so much potential: The raw, rapidly changing from being limited to the unlinked information found in online classroom to the pockets of the people databases is part of the Deep Web. who want to learn more. Visitors must type a keyword into a search function to find the information they want, and the page’s hyperlink remains the As the people are getting Tech freaks, same even while its portal delivers the almost everyone has Smartphone and in right results. India, every two out of three people have Smartphone and Android is the most used
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 17 OS in India, It offers a variety of The participants were asked about how educational apps which can teach you they used local libraries and found that almost anything and anytime. they were "rarely seen as an option." Moreover, the hub of those libraries These educational apps act as a great seemed to be the computers rather than asset to ones learning as they provide a the books. It's worse for children in the combination of innovative learning and summer months as schools are closed core learning. Many apps include and their access to school libraries is animated videos to enhance the learning down which puts them at an intellectual experience on their app. disadvantage as compared to their privileged peers. No matter what are your learning goals, there are apps for almost every subject, Reaching Families Where They Are: exam, or Interest. Examining an Innovative Book Distribution Program Meritnation Susan B. Neuman, Jillian J. Knapczyk BYJU’S – The Learning App First Published April 30, 2018 Research Wikipedia Article TED Study Available myCBSEguide – CBSE Papers & @ http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/ NCERT Solutions 10.1177/0042085918770722 Duolingo National Technology Day 2018 @ Top Dictionary.com: Search Words & technologies that are Impacting the English Vocabulary Way We Think, Love and Communicate SoloLearn: Learn to Code for Free The pace at which human-machine Khan Academy technologies are evolving and getting seamlessly integrated into our lives is Coursera: Online courses unimaginable. On National Technology Day 2018, here’s a look at the top Link| https://www.theindianwire.com/ed technologies that are impacting the way ucation/best-android-educational-apps- we think, love and communicate. india-56205/ • Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Undoubtedly, this is the biggest trend that Study @ How Book Vending Machines has grown exponentially. Combined with Up….Reading Habits machine learning, AI has the potential to not only bring about enormous changes in In an April 2018 study, researchers business, it can help create solutions for from New York University installed book prevalent social issues. A large number of vending machines in poor communities organizations have begun to realize the where books for children are scarce or direct implications of infusing AI in their nonexistent. This not only provided books operations. While the groundwork in AI for the community but the buying patterns has already begun, the times ahead are provided a lot of insight into book buying exciting as the ideas and prototypes are habits, as the authors surveyed the taking shape in real projects across people. multiple sectors - healthcare, retail, construction, banking, manufacturing, etc. These areas are called "book deserts", as access to books is limited at best here.
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 18 • Internet of Things (IoT) – It has been areas are already using AR extensively for predicted that IoT will comprise 200 billion communication, training, etc. The scope is ‘smart’ devices by the year 2020. That even greater in healthcare where AR can roughly equals 26 ‘smart’ devices per be used in the operating room by bringing person on the planet. These smart devices the virtual elements to the real world. would need to be collaboratively connected through the internet, converting To conclude, half of the year has gone by the devices into one big integrated system and it already looks very promising for driving a major shift in human-machine technological innovations. The exponential interaction. Implications of this technology improvement of technologies will not only are immense, which can be as simple as a allow every business industry to flourish smart home to an entire city! At present, but also impact our daily lives. IoT is being used by businesses to increase process efficiencies and deliver Link | https://pralhad- better customer experiences, thus fyilibrarian.blogspot.in/2018/05/national generating new revenue streams. -technology-day-2018-top.html
• Blockchain – Blockchain as a Library as a Magical Kingdom of Books technology has immense prospects in the & Librarian as a Miracle Worker field of digital transactions. After the initial hype around blockchain in the financial One of the first sketches I wrote for the services' industry, we are seeing many college magazine – now, alas, irretrievably more potential use cases for the lost – was about an imaginary heroic government, healthcare, manufacturing, character called Roy. Roy was soft- supply chain/logistics, F&B and other spoken but strong, mild mannered but industries. In 2018, mthe any blockchain steadfast. He spoke truth to power and technology platforms will move championed lost causes. A rugged from developmentphase to pilot phase in scholar, he was by profession a librarian. the banking, media and industrial sectors. That confused my friends and readers. A • Cloud-based architecture – Cloud librarian? It was clear to me that nobody based architecture has been around for thought of the librarian as a heroic figure. quite a while now but in 2018, we expect A librarian was expected to be a namby- to see many more organizations take pamby clerk, who kept an inventory of advantage of the simplicity and high- books and loaned them to scholars and performance the cloud guarantees, as well students for short periods – and pestered as a sharp uptick in cloud-hosted them if the books were not returned in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) that time. In the US, the image was that of a provides an opportunity to grow computing woman with moon glasses, gray hair in a capabilities without costly investments in bun, shuffling about noiselessly, shelving infrastructure, physical or technical. books and maintaining a place of sepulchral silence. • Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) - Worldwide spending on AR This was vastly different from my mental and VR is expected to reach $17.8 billion picture. To me a library was a magical in 2018, which is 95% more than the $9.1 kingdom, where everything was possible. billion spent in 2017. Businesses are And everything happened. Every villain quickly understanding the potential of AR had his comeuppance at the hands of the and are integrating the technology into just hero; every detective followed their business and marketing plans to abstruse clues to the right murderer; and make most of the first-mover opportunities every prince found the impeccably available. Industries like beautiful, doe-eyed princess. There you telecommunication, manufacturing, energy discovered mysterious new worlds. How where the workforce is scattered to remote two brothers worked on an impossible
3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 4 5 June 2 0 1 8 Page 19 dream and started flying. How Eskimos poem or play, your heart expands and built houses of ice and raised families in sings as you read Murakami, Kundera or them. How an arrogant boy from tiny Rushdie, and you finally know what it is to Macedonia made huge empires prostrate be truly alive. A library, above all, is a at his feet. And how – trust the avid haven where you discover yourself, adolescent to look for that above all – men joyfully and with abandon. and women come together to have fun and produce babies. Roy, the librarian I had imagined in my college days, was modeled on an elderly To be sure, the aura of books for me came friend I had acquired, a man who after a partly from their sheer scarcity in the India successful career as a professor and of the 1950s and sixties. There were few senior administrator had decided he community libraries and their collections wanted to be a librarian. He served as a were pathetic. Schools and colleges had wonderful mentor in a professional outdated inventories, and restrictive library organization to students and executives practices seemed designed to keep alike, and opened new doors for anybody students away from books. Open access who cared to walk through his library was unthinkable and you could get only doors. He was a miracle worker and I am one or two books on loan at a time. thankful he introduced me to the miracle that a library can be. The US and British Embassies created a sensation in my city, Kolkata, by opening Source| https://www.thestatesman.co/ large libraries where you could walk up to the shelves, browse to your heart’s UK University to offer medical courses content and sit and read as long as you for surgeons in India liked. I became a member of as many libraries as I could, and then persuaded Canterbury Christ Church University friends who worked for academic and (CCCU) is all set to offer medical courses professional organizations (and never for surgeons in India. With 17,000 used their large libraries) to let me use students across Kent and Medway, its their membership cards. courses span a wide range of academic and professional subject areas. When I moved to the US, I was delighted by the easy availability of books in large Source | Asian Age | 15th May 2018 stores and also in libraries. The delight has shrunk over the years as libraries Scan and Store Your Documents have reduced their staff, working hours Digitally @ Apps and new acquisitions. Smaller budgets have gone mostly to popular magazines Though we live in an increasingly digital and best-selling potboilers, and the focus world, many organisations still print out has moved to useful and how-to literature. important documents on paper. Receiving Serving the community is a laudable goal, bank statements, retail invoices and and librarians seem largely devoted to important notices in print may seem improving literacy, assisting seniors and redundant when you can access most of children, helping the disabled and this information online, although you can’t educating the computer Luddites. shy away from the fact that paper still dominates society. All are perfectly understandable and perhaps defensible. Yet I cling to my idea But technology can save the day in the of the library as a magical kingdom, where form of document scanning apps. With impossible things can and do happen. these, it’s possible to scan paper-based Where your mind is blown by staggering items such as letters, receipts and new ideas, your imagination takes contracts using the camera of your mobile awesome leaps as you discover a new device. You can then keep them safe and
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Source | Economic Times | 14th May Detailed database 2018 The centre will enable college and Disk Cleanup Vs Storage Sense @ university teachers to access a detailed Tech Tip – New ways to delete old files database of academic resources, including lists of books, top journals and Disk Cleanup is an older utility program subject experts in their area of interest. It that has been included with the operating will also suggest a mechanism to higher system since the days of Windows 98. education institutions to assess students’ satisfaction with teaching and research in Storage Sense @ As Windows 10 has the institutions, so that the faculty are able evolved, Microsoft has automated some of to figure out what students think about the housekeeping chores performed by their college/university and make Disk Cleanup and moved them into the improvements. system settings in a feature called Storage Sense. NIEPA will hold a series of intensive workshops with experts in various Source | Financial Express | 21st May disciplines in the next two months to put 2018 together an effective resource centre, said an official who did not want to be named. Online resource for academicians soon @ Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya The PMMMNMTT calls for a National National Mission on Teachers and Resource Centre to be “set up with the Training (PMMMNMTT) vision of developing teachers who are able to enhance their potential and push the They can connect with experts, access frontiers of knowledge through research, networking and sharing of existing books and journals in their fields of resources in the competitive knowledge study world”. The portal will be launched with detailed information on resources in some University and college teachers across the key subjects: History, Political Science, country will soon be able to connect with Sociology, Economics, Physics, experts in their fields of study and also Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology. pose queries on academic questions that Education and Management will also they wish resolved through suggestions feature among the chosen disciplines. offered by these experts or other teachers of their discipline. Source | The Hindu | 19th May 2018
A National Resource Centre, envisaged as a one-stop point for Indian academicians to enhance their research and teaching Information for this issue has been skills, will make such cooperation across provided by Mr. Pralhad Jadhav, Senior universities possible with the launch of a Librarian, Khaitan & Co. Mumbai portal within months from now.
The National Institute of Educational Research and Planning (NIEPA) is in the process of rolling out the centre, an initiative that is part of the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on
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