DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Ministry of Human Resource Development Department of Higher Education Government of India
Foreword
The quality and access to higher education has been a subject of intense concern to all of us. The advancements in digital technologies are transforming the way educational resources are being created, disseminated and accessed across the world. Use of digital technologies in all aspects of higher education has also received a major push in India. This in turn helps the quality improvement & accessibility of Higher Education to large part of students as well as up-skilling of the teachers across the country. Digital technologies have also greatly impacted the management and governance of the institutions as well as the accreditation and ranking of the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, has undertaken many initiatives for exploiting the digital technologies in improving the quality & accessibility in Higher Education as well as better tools for accreditation and grading of educational institutions. )LQDOO\ PDQ\ QHZ IURQWOLQH WHFKQRORJLHV OLNH $UWLÀFLDO ,QWHOOLJHQFH 0DFKLQH /HDUQLQJ Autonomous Systems, Cognitive Systems, etc are emerging and these are going to give many new opportunities for all of us to further improve the quality & accessibility in higher education. I sincerely believe that this Handbook on “ Digital Initiatives in Higher Education” will help \RXLQIXUWKHUGLVVHPLQDWLQJDQGJHWWLQJWKHEHQHÀWVIURPWKHVHLQLWLDWLYHVWRLPSURYH the learning outcomes of not only the students but also the lifelong learners.
R. Subrahmanyam, IAS Secretary DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Ministry of Human Resource Development Department of Higher Education Government of India
Preface
The use of Information and Communication technology (ICT) has great potential in improving the quality of education imparted and widening the access of education throughout the country. For this purpose, the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has undertaken many initiatives under ‘National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology’ 10(,&7 SURMHFW¶6WXG\:HEVRI$FWLYH/HDUQLQJIRU Dr. N Saravana Kumar, IAS -RLQW6HFUHWDU\ ,&& 7(/ DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INDEX S. No. Contents Page No. 1. National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT )……...... …. 4 2. SWAYAM…………………………………………………………...... 5 3. SWAYAM Prabha………………………………………………...... 8 4. National Digital Library…………………………………………...... 10 5. e-Yantra…………………………………………………………...... 12 6. Virtual Labs………………………………………………………...... 14 7. FOSSEE…………………………………………………………...... 15 8. Spoken Tutorial…………………………………………………...... 16 9. National Academic Depository…………………………………...... 17 10. Plagiarism Detection Software…………………………………...... 19 11. ARPIT……………………………………………………………...... 20 12. General Observations……………………………………………...... 21 13. SWAYAM Regulations (a) Credit Transfer facility up to 20% enabled by UGC/ AICTE- ‘Credit Framework for online learning courses through SWAYAM Regulation 2016’. (ANNEXURE-I & II) (b) Amendment/Addition MOOCs Guidelines on 1st June, 2017 - standardizing the content delivery and for systematic development of the online Courses for ‘Regulation 2016’ (ANNEXURE-III) (c) Financial Norms for the Development of MOOCs for SWAYAM (ANNEXURE-IV) (d) Under Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) of UGC - creation of MOOCs or training through MOOCs is one of the eligibility criteria for promotion. (ANNEXURE-V) (e) UGC approved Annual Refresher Programme In Teaching (ARPIT) courses delivered on SWAYAM equivalent to one Refresher course for the purpose of Career Advancement. (ANNEXURE-VI (i) & (ii)) 14. Contact details of National Coordinators (ANNEXURE-VII) 15. Popular Courses (ANNEXURE-VII) DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION NATIONAL MISSION ON EDUCATION THROUGH ICT (NMEICT) To improve the learning outcomes and Even though various initiatives have been improve the access and quality of learning, taken up under NMEICT programme, the Technology offers solutions, in the form major currently ongoing initiatives like of digital education. National Mission on SWAYAM, SWAYAM Prabha, National Education through ICT (NMEICT) is a major Digital Library (NDL), e-Yantra, FOSSE, initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Spoken Tutorials, and Virtual Labs are Development (MHRD) to infuse digital being implemented by various higher education solutions to improve the access educational institutions. to quality contents and also to improve the learning outcomes. 4 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION SWAYAM www.swayam.gov.in 1. The ‘Study Webs of Active Learning for for Educational Communication (CEC) Young Aspiring Minds’ (SWAYAM) is for Under-Graduate Non-Technical India’s own MOOCs platform offering Education, National Project for free online courses on almost all the Technology Enabled Learning (NPTEL) disciplines. A programme initiated for Engineering, National Council of by Government of India, designed to Educational Research and Training achieve the three cardinal principles (NCERT) for school education, National of Education Policy viz., access, equity Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) and quality has the objective to ensure for out of School Education, Indira access to the best teaching learning Gandhi National Open University resources to all, including the most (IGNOU) for Diploma & Certificates disadvantaged. SWAYAM seeks to courses through distance learning, bridge the digital divide for learners National Institute of Technical Teachers who have hitherto remained untouched Training and Research (NITTTR) for by the digital revolution and have not teachers training, Indian Institute been able to join the mainstream of of Management (IIM) Bangalore for Management Studies and All India the knowledge economy. This is done Council of Technical Education (AICTE) through an indigenously developed IT/ for Annual Refresher Programme in Cloud platform that facilitates hosting Teaching (ARPIT) courses and courses of all the courses, taught in classrooms from foreign universities. from 9th standard till Post-Graduation to be accessed by Anyone, Anywhere, 3. SWAYAM was formally launched on Anytime. All the courses are interactive, 09.07.2017 by the Hon’ble President prepared by more than 1000 reputed of India. Till date, about 2200 Courses teachers in the country and are have been offered through SWAYAM in which about 500 courses are on offer available free of cost. for January 2019 semester. More than 2. The courses hosted on SWAYAM are 50 Lakhs students have registered on in four quadrants - (i) video lecture, SWAYAM platform and there are more (ii) specially prepared reading material than 1 crore enrollments in various that can be downloaded/printed courses. The framework for transfer of (iii) self-assessment tests through tests credits (upto a maximum of 20%) has and quizzes and (iv) online discussion been put in place by AICTE and UGC forum for clearing the doubts. The by bringing out necessary regulations. learning experience has been enriched With this, the students studying in by using audio-video and multimedia any Institution can transfer the credits and state of the art pedagogy/ earned through the SWAYAM Courses technology. Nine National Coordinators into their academic records. So far, are involved in production and about 122 Institutions/Universities running of courses. University Grants have recognized the SWAYAM Courses Commission (UGC) for PostGraduation for credit transfer and many others Non-Technical Education, Consortium are in the process of doing the same. 5 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION Under a new initiative Annual Refresher ensuring a blended learning mode; and Programme in Teaching (ARPIT), the » Allow CREDIT TRANSFER upto 20 % Faculty Development Programme to those students who are willing to (FDP) of higher education faculty is opt for learning the selected SWAYAM also being offered through MOOCs courses. (UGC and AICTE have issued under SWAYAM platform, for training regulations to facilitate credit transfer maximum number of faculty and also upto 20 %) to expose the teachers to technology » Institute can decide to accept the enabled learning. Fifteen lakh untrained SWAYAM course for extracurricular/ school teachers are also getting trained extra academic courses. under D.El.Ed. programme of NIOS delivered through SWAYAM. 3. Extensive Publicity and orientation about the SWAYAM courses and 4. The Online Courses delivered on benefits to the students by workshops SWAYAM, are expected to reduce the and seminars, through the Local digital divide by providing access to Chapters. best content to all. By integrating SWAYAM MOOCs with conventional Action by Faculty / Teachers: education, the learning outcomes of 1. The faculty can facilitate effective students are expected to improve in teaching - both On Campus & Online. the coming days and can prove to be a The role of faculty would change into game changer in the education sector. Facilitator role, by acting as a mentor to Action desired from the University / assist the students in online learning. Institute / College: 2. SWAYAM course material may be used 1. Every Institute should coordinate for Blended Learning or Flip Classes - with UGC/NPTEL for starting “LOCAL which is a mix of classroom & online CHAPTER (Digital Learning Monitoring learning. Centre), to publicize and help the 3. Students should be motivated and faculty and students. This will provide a supported with handholding, for local platform for discussion amongst registering in SWAYAM portal and students and faculty about enrolling enrolment for various SWAYAM of students, facilitating credit transfer, courses. suggesting new courses, exam 4. Talented Teachers across the registration and helping students Universities to be encouraged to during the delivery of courses. Any produce and offer courses for SWAYAM. clarification or coordination as required They need to approach the concerned would be done by UGC/NPTEL. National Coordinator under SWAYAM. 2. Each University is requested to get the 5. Funding support for creating & SWAYAM courses approved through running MOOCs courses - 13.5 Lakhs their Academic Councils/Senate, for for creation of one MOOCs course and two following things on every semester Rs. 1.2 Lakh for running of one course. basis SWAYAM MOOCs Guidelines & » Motivating students to register for Framework: courses in SWAYAM - to access to 1. Credit Transfer facility up to 20% quality contents, which will help in 6 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION enabled by UGC/ AICTE- ‘Credit (ANNEXURE-V) Framework for online learning courses 5. UGC approved Annual Refresher through SWAYAM Regulation 2016’. Programme In Teaching (ARPIT) (ANNEXURE-I & II) courses delivered on SWAYAM 2. Amendment / Addition MOOCs equivalent to one Refresher course for Guidelines on 1st June, 2017 - the purpose of Career Advance-ment. standardizing the content delivery (ANNEXURE-VI (i)& (ii)) and for systematic development of the 6. Contact details of National Coordinators online Courses for ‘Regulation 2016’ and Popular Courses (ANNEXURE-VII) (ANNEXURE-III) Contact : Swayam Helpline (18001219025) 3. Financial Norms for the Development Email : [email protected] of MOOCs for SWAYAM (ANNEXURE-IV) MHRD : Shri Harshvardhan Mathpal, 4. Under Career Advancement Scheme Consultant (CAS) of UGC - creation of MOOCs or training through MOOCs is one of Email : [email protected] the eligibility criteria for promotion. 7 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION SWAYAM PRABHA www.swayamprabha.gov.in disciplines such as arts, science, commerce, performing arts, social sciences and humanities, engineering, technology, law, medicine, agriculture, etc. All courses would be certification ready in their detailed offering through SWAYAM, the platform being developed for offering MOOCs courses. 1. SWAYAM PRABHA is an initiative to provide 32 high quality educational • IIT PAL: To assist the student in the channels through DTH (Direct to classes 11 and 12 aspiring to join IITs Home) across the length and breadth by encouraging scientific thinking and of the country on 24X7 basis. This conceptual understanding critical to would enable to deliver e-education answer the ‘tough’ questions of JEE in a most cost effective & inclusive Advanced. This initiative is lead by IIT manner. The Department of Space has Delhi. The four channels are for Physics, allotted two GSAT-15 transponders for Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology. the same. Hon’ble President of India • School education (9-12 levels): has launched the SWAYAM Prabha Modules for teacher’s training as well as on 9th July, 2017. The subscribers of teaching and learning aids for children free DTH service of Doordarshan (Free of India to help them understand the dish) and Dish TV (Zee) would be able subjects better and also help them in to view these Educational channels preparing for competitive examinations using the same Set Top Box and TV. for admissions to professional degree No additional investment would be programmes. required. These channels are also available on Jio mobile TV app. Other • Curriculum based courses that can service providers are also considering meet the needs of lifelong learners of the Ministry’s proposal to provide free Indian citizens in India and abroad. access. The contents are prepared by • Every day, there will be new content different MHRD agencies like CEC, for at least four hours which would IGNOU, IITs, NIOS and NCERT. be repeated five more times in a day, 2. The DTH Channels cover the following: allowing the student to choose the time of his convenience. • Higher Education: Curriculum based course contents at postgraduate and • SWAYAM PRABHA has been integrated undergraduate level covering diverse on UMANG App also. 8 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION Action desired from the University / educational contents to students in Institute / College institutes located in remote areas, where internet connectivity is still not 1. Each Institute should install DTH (Direct satisfactory. to Home) facility and TV, for viewing SwayamPrabha channels. All the 32 Contact : +91-7923268347 channels are freely available on DD (Available on Monday Free Dish, Dish TV (Zee TV) and Jio to Friday from 9:30 AM to Mobile App. 6:00 PM) 2. Depending on the Schedule of various Email : [email protected] courses / programmes, students can IIT M : Prof. Mangla Sunder be motivated or gathered to watch Email : [email protected] the quality contents being provided through SwayamPrabha channels. MHRD : Shri Amit Sharma, Consultant Email : [email protected] 3. This would ensure access to quality 9 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY (NDL) www.ndl.gov.in ▪ The National Digital Library of India innovation and technology economy in (NDL) project has been entrusted to India. NDL is available at https://www. IIT Kharagpur to develop the overall ndl.gov.in. It is also available as Mobile framework of a facility that can provide App (Android and iOS) and on UMANG a single window access to learners for Platform. Anybody can register in NDL e-contents/resources. The vision is to at no cost. Currently, NDL has about build NDL as a National Knowledge 200 lakh of content items and about 45 Asset that should become the key lakh of registered users. driving force for education, research, ▪ NDL integrates the existing digitized hosting sites as part of search results. and digital contents across educational Users access contents from respective and cultural institutions / bodies, content hosting sites by clicking these publishers, etc. to provide a single links. window access to different groups Participant Institutions: of users ranging across the entire population. NDL fetches metadata All Technical as well Non-Technical (“data that provides information about Institutions, Publishers, Open Educational other data”) of the contents and store Resource Portals and index these metadata in its servers Action desired from the University / so that all the e-contents can be Institute / College: searched and accessed in the fulltext by users through a single window. (a) Dissemination of information about NDL does not store the actual (fulltext) this facility to students and faculty and contents in its servers; instead it gives motivating them to use the e-resources to users links of respective content available. 10 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION (b) Availability of Internet Connectivity: [email protected] with a request No special hardware or accessories to get these users registered are required to access NDL. NDL can » NDL person will upload this excel in be accessed from devices like PC, NDL system Laptop, Mobile devices supporting any web browser. However you will need » Each person (user) will soon receive his internet connectivity to access NDL. / her respective login credentials (user id and a system generated password) (3) Individual Membership: in his / her e-mail id. A person’s NDL Once you have typed the URL (https:// account will be activated upon his/ www.ndl.gov.in) of NDL and land on her first login. During this first login the Landing page of NDL, you will find user will need to modify the system a window on the right hand side saying generated password and may all also ‘Member Log-In’. Click on the ‘Register’ fill his/her profile. S(he) can then start button whereby a Registration form using NDL. will open up. Fill up all the details on (5) NDL facilitates the uploading of inhouse the form and submit. You will soon get resources produced in your Institute a validation link in your mailbox. Click by the faculty members, staff, and the link and validate and then you students into the national repository; can start using NDL. From next time Meta data needs to be shared. onwards, please use the Log-In button on the Home page for accessing NDL. Contact : National Digital Library of India Project, Central Library, (4) Bulk Registration for Institutions: Indian Institute of A person from your institute, called Technology Kharagpur, Institutional Nodal Person (INP), can Kharagpur, India - 721302, take the responsibility of getting all the Email : [email protected] persons of the institute registered in NDL. (S)he can get this done through Phone : +91-3222-282435 the following steps: PI/Co-PI : Prof. Partha Partim Das, » List all first name, last name and email Email : [email protected] id of your users (students, faculty members, staff) in an excel file (in one MHRD : Shri Praveen Rai, Consultant row for each user) and send the file to Email : [email protected] [email protected] or to rajendra. 11 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION e-YANTRA www.e-yantra.org • e-Yantra is a project entrusted to Robotics & Autonomous Systems. IIT Bombay for enabling effective Participant Institutions: education across engineering colleges in India on embedded systems and All Technical as well as Science Colleges Robotics. The training for teachers and and Polytechnics students is imparted through workshops Action desired from the University / where participants are taught basics of Institute / College: embedded systems and programming. Engagement of teachers and students 1. Dissemination of information about in handson experiments with robots this facility to students and faculty. by way of competition event is another 2. e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI) is innovative method of problem solving a college level program under which with out of box solutions. e-Yantra also colleges are helped to setup robotics helps colleges to setup Robotics labs/ labs. It addresses infrastructure clubs to make it a part of their routine creation and teacher training to training curriculum. More than 275 create an ecosystem at the colleges colleges across India have benefited to impart effective engineering with this initiative. All the projects and education using “Project Beased code are available on the e-Yantra Learning.” eLSI provides: (i) guidance website www.e-yantra.org as open and support for establishing robotics source content. • This unique initiative aims to create the labs - three robotic kits are given next generation of embedded systems to each participating college on lab engineers with a practical outlook to setup and (ii) Two phased training for help provide practical solutions to teachers. An Institution registers with some of the real world problems using a mail to “[email protected]” with 12 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION a request to set up an e-Yantra Lab. to be encouraged to participate. A college has to commit Rs 2 lakhs The following Youtube link gives a towards infrastructure (under e-Yantra brief idea of e-Yantra. “e-Yantra – guidance) and commit 4 teachers to be Competition with a difference” https:// trained from different disciplines (such youtu.be/izDTFhVExpY as CS, EE, Civil, Mech. etc.) following which the e-Yantra process takes 4. e-Yantra Ideas Competition (eYIC). over. Once equipment is purchased e-Yantra labs volunteer upto 4 and teachers are trained, the lab is proposals for solving local problems inaugurated online and plugged into through automation. Shortlisted the e-Yantra eco-system. The teacher proposals are given a goahead to build training comprises a 2-day onsite their solutions under our mentorship workshop close to the college. After using the lab infrastructure developed this, there is an online 2-3 month under e-Yantra. Innovations are Task Based training (TBT) based on from a variety of domains including a robot that the teachers are given healthcare, agriculture, smart cities, by the e-Yantra project. There are etc. See an overview of the e-Yantra other benefits to having a lab such as Ideas Competition here: https://www. extended participation in the e-Yantra youtube.com/watch?v=WB-qftXeQVg Robotics Competition and participation in e-Yantra Ideas Competition that trains students in innovation. There is an annual e-Yantra Symposium at IIT Bombay where teachers from the labs congregate at IIT Bombay to learn of latest best practices and experiences in other labs. 3. e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC) is a unique annual competition for undergraduate students in science and colleges. Selected teams are given a Contact : ERTS Lab robotic kit complete with accessories 1st Floor, KReSIT Building, IIT and video tutorials to help them learn Bombay, Powai, Mumbai - basic concepts in embedded systems 400076, Maharashtra and microcontroller programming. Email : [email protected] Abstractions of real world problems are assigned as “themes” which are PI/Co-PI : Prof Kavi Arya then implemented by the teams using Email : [email protected] the robotic kits. The winners of this competition are eligible for summer MHRD : Shri Praveen Rai, Consultant internship in IIT Bombay. Students are Email : [email protected] 13 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION VIRTUAL LAB www.vlab.co.in This initiative provides remote access to 2. Good Internet Connectivity: Virtual Labs in various disciplines of Science and Labs do not require any additional Engineering. Students can also strengthen infrastructural setup for conducting their concepts by performing Virtual labs experiments at user premises. The experiments at a place and time of their simulations based experiments can be choice, outside lab hours. These Virtual accesses remotely via internet Labs would cater to the students at the 3. There is no financial liability of any undergraduate level, postgraduate level party for using Virtual Labs. It is free to as well as to research scholars. There are use. 12- participating institutes; IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati, IIT 4. Explore to become Nodal Centre for Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee, NITK conducting training & Workshops on Surathkal, COE Pune, Amrita Vishwa Virtual labs: The Institute should be a Vidyapeetham, and Dayalbagh Educational Central, State University or Institute / Institute Agra. IIT Delhi is the Coordinating college approved by AICTE/UGC. The Institute. Institute should provide a designated / common lab space having 30 PCs or more with minimum 1 Mbps internet broadband connection and a multimedia projector. A Nodal Center Coordinator for the Virtual labs should be nominated by the Head of the Institute (Director/Principal). Contact : WIRELESS RESEARCH LAB Room No - 206/IIA, Bharti School of Telecom, IIT Delhi, HauzKhas, New Delhi-110016 Participant Institutions: Email : [email protected] All Technical Institutions as well as Science Phone : 011-26582050 Colleges PI/Co-PI : Prof Ranjan Bose Action desired from the University / Institute / College: Email : [email protected] 1. Dissemination of information about MHRD : Shri Praveen Rai, Consultant this facility to students and faculty. Email : [email protected] 14 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION FOSSEE www.fossee.in The FOSSEE (Free/Libre and Open Source Niche : Toolbox development for Software in Education) Project, promotes software Scilab, Flowsheeting with the use of FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open activities DWSIM, Case Study with Source Software) tools to improve the Open FOAM, Circuit quality of education in our country. It aims Simulation with eSim and to reduce the dependency on proprietary Power System Simulation software in educational institutions. It is using Open Modelica and being implemented by IIT Bombay. Open IPSL. Hardware : Arduino, Open PLC using FOSSEE promotes the use of the state of activities Atmel and Raspberry Pi, and the art FLOSS in teaching and research. PCB for eSim Some of these tools are Scilab, Python, R, DWSIM, Open Modelica and Open Massive : Connect with Remote FOAM. New FLOSS tools, such as eSim and blended Centres and help train training several thousands of upgrade existing tools are also developed. teachers on Moodle, Scilab, It also promotes open source hardware, Python, R, etc. such as Arduino. For more details please visit: https://fossee.in/. These tools are Participant : All Technical and Science Institutions Colleges, and also colleges promoted by encouraging students and that do data analysis. faculty to use them in education and research through the activities listed Action desired from the University / below: Institute / College: Textbook : Porting the solved examples 1. Dissemination of information about this initiative to students and faculty. Companion from standard textbooks to one of the FLOSS 2. The FOSSEE team invites educators/ supported by FOSSEE like researchers to partner and develop Scilab, Python, Open more such tools. Modelica and R. Contact : The FOSSEE Team, CFD – Lab, Annex Building, Lab : Migration of Labs in Below HSS Dept., Opp. Migration educational institutions Metallurgical Dept., IIT to FLOSS only labs. Currently, Bombay, Powai, Mumbai – FOSSEE supports Lab 400076, India Migration under the Email : [email protected] following software: Scilab, eSim, OpenFOAM and Phone : (+91) 22 2576 4133 DWSIM. PI/Co-PI : Prof Kannan Moudgalya Conferences : We conduct various Email : [email protected] and and conferences, seminars and Prof. Prabhu Ramachandran Workshops remote workshops to MHRD : Shri Praveen Rai, Consultant introduce FLOSS to users. Email : [email protected] 15 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION SPOKEN TUTORIAL www.spoken-tutorial.org This project helps everyone learn various Libre Office (vi) graphic and animation Free/Libre and Open Source Software all by software, such as Inkscape, GIMP, oneself. The selfpaced, multilingual courses Blender, and Inkscape. ensure that anybody with a computer and Participant Institutions: a desire for learning, can learn from any place, at any time and in a language of Engineering, Polytechnic, Arts, Science, their choice. Internet is not required to and Commerce, Colleges. use Spoken Tutorials. This project is being Action desired from the University / implemented by IIT Bombay. Institute / College: » Even those students who are not fluent 1. Dissemination of information about in English can learn from Spoken this resource to students and faculty, Tutorials through dubbing available encouraging them to use this, as in all 22 languages of the Schedule AICTE/UGC approved MOOCs for ICT 8 of the Constitution, such as Hindi, lab/practical courses/papers. Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, 2. Disseminate the fact that institutions Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, should register for annual membership Sanskrit, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and with IIT Bombay, and have any number Urdu. of students appear in any number of tests, and get free certificates when » Even though one may listen to Spoken they pass online tests. Tutorials dubbed in our languages, one would not lose the employment 3. Disseminate the fact that the Spoken potential as all the videos are in English. Tutorial team provides Maternal, infant and young child nutrition, thereby » One can self learn from Spoken preventing Malnutrition. Tutorials, as these are created for self learning, and also that Internet is not Contact : Spoken Tutorial Project, required to use it. TCS Lab, Behind CAD Centre, IIT Bombay, Powai, » One can, through Spoken Tutorials, Mumbai – 400076, Landline: learn (i) programming languages, 022 2576 4229. such as C, C++, Java and Python (ii) OS software like Linux, Bash and Awk Email : [email protected] (iii) web development software like PI/Co-PI : Prof Kannan Moudgalya PHP/MySQL, Drupal and Joomla (iv) scientific and simulation software, Email : [email protected] such as Scilab, R, DWSIM, Open MHRD : Shri Praveen Rai, Consultant Modelica, Open FOAM, Osdag and eSim (v) office productivity software Email : [email protected] 16 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION NATIONAL ACADEMIC DEPOSITORY www.nad.gov.in National Academic Depository (NAD) 3. Institutions empowered by an act of is an online store house of academic State Legislature to grant degrees awards (degrees, diplomas, certificates, mark sheets etc.) lodged by the academic 4. Private Universities approved by institutions / school boards / eligibility University Grants Commission assessment bodies in a digital format. 5. Institutions approved by the Ministry of NAD is on 24X7 online mode for making Skill Development & Entrepreneurship available academic awards and help in (MSDE) for participating in NAD. validating their authenticity, their safe storage and easy retrieval. 6. Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE); National Academic Depository comprises of two interoperable digital depositories 7. Other School Boards viz. CDSL Ventures Limited (CVL) and NSDL Database Management Limited (NDML). 8. Central eligibility test conducting The University Grants Commission (UGC) bodies i.e. UGC for National Eligibility is the authorized implementing body Test (NET) and CBSE for Teacher of NAD. The details regarding NAD are Eligibility Test (TET). available at www.nad.gov.in. Stakeholders of NAD: Students can now access their academic 1. Academic Institutions/School Boards/ awards online from anywhere & at Eligibility assessment bodies any time. Students can also authorize verification seeking entities to view & 2. Students and other award holders verify the academic certificates. NAD is permanent record of academic awards 3. Verification seeking entities i.e. banks, and there is no risk of losing, spoiling or employer companies (domestic damaging of academic awards. NAD is and overseas), Government entities, also an effective deterrence to fake and academic Institutions / Universities / forged paper certificates. Boards / Eligibility assessment bodies (domestic and overseas) etc. Participant Institutions: Action desired from the University / 1. Central Educational Institutions comprising Central Universities, Institute / College: Central Higher Educational Institutions Roles & Responsibilities of Academic & institutions empowered by an Institutions (AIs)- Act of Parliament to grant degrees, Central Higher Educational Institutions The AIs shall: awarding diplomas 1. Enter into a Service Level Agreement 2. State Universities and Deemed to be (SLA) with either of the two depositories Universities to join NAD. 17 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 2. Provide certificate templates, data c) Approve/reject request of any masters etc. to the depositories verification seeking entity for access to his/her certificate 3. Provide data of academic awards for lodging the academic awards on NAD d) Send copy of certificate to any verification seeking entity 4. Identify staff to be trained in NAD system NAD Statistics- as on 22.03.2019 5. Lodge Awards – Upload awards and • Total Academic Institutions onboard on seed with NAD ID NAD- 972 6. Verify & digitally sign data in prescribed • Total number of Students registered on formats – maker / checker NAD- 4,97,670 Roles & Responsibilities of Students- • Total number of academic awards Lodged on NAD (including degrees, Students shall: diplomas, marksheets etc.)- 2,99,20,140 1. Register on either of the depositories • Number of verification seeking entities by providing basic registration details registered on NAD-182 and obtain a unique NAD ID. Contact : National Academic 2. Submit NAD ID to AI for verification Depository Cell (NAD Cell), and seeding into award data University Grants Commission 3. View & access all awards online at any Old CRS Building, Jawaharlal time in a single account Nehru University, Aruna 4. Student can: Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi-110067, Tele-011 a) View/download digitally signed awards 26741315, 011 26742016, b) Request printed copy of the certificate Email : [email protected] 18 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION PLAGIARISM DETECTION SOFTWARE MHRD intends to provide plagiarism student paper database, etc. detection software to all the Universities Participant Institutions: to facilitate easy detection of plagiarised content in the academic and research works All Universities (in the first phase) including articles in journals and conference Action desired from the University / proceedings, chapters in books, theses, Institute / College: research reports, assignments, project works, lecture notes, e-text / e-content Dissemination of information about this for MOOCs and LMS, etc. The plagiarism facility to students and faculty. detection software / tool should compare Contact : Prof J P Singh Joorel, submitted documents with database of Director, INFLIBNET document maintained by the producers of plagiarism detection software consisting Email : [email protected] of subscription-based resources and open MHRD : Shri Praveen Rai, access resources from primary publishers Consultant and aggregators, current and archived Internet web pages and web documents, Email : [email protected] 19 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION ANNUAL REFRESHER PROGRAMME IN TEACHING (ARPIT) www.swayam.gov.in The Ministry of Human Resource Advancement Scheme (CAS) of faculty Development has officially launched Online (DO Letter No. F.2-16/2002(PS)Pt.fI.II dated Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching 3rd December, 2018). (Annexure-VI) (ARPIT) on 13th November, 2018, a major Participant Institutions: and unique initiative of online professional development of 15 lakh higher education All Public funded Educational Institutions faculty using the MOOCs platform such as Central Universities, IISc, IUCAA, SWAYAM. For implementing ARPIT, 75 IITs, IISERs, NITs, State Universities; UGC’s discipline specific National Resource Human Resource Development Centres Centres (NRCs) have been identified in the (HRDCs), National Institutes for Technical first phase, which are tasked to prepare Teachers Training (NITTTRs), IIITs, IGNOU online training material with focus on etc. latest developments in the discipline, new & emerging trends, pedagogical Action desired from the University / improvements and methodologies for Institute / College: transacting revised curriculum. ARPIT will » Dissemination of information to Higher be an ongoing exercise so that every year. Education faculty about ARPIT initiative Identification of discipline specific NRCs and UGC notification for equivalence of for 2019 is ongoing. NRCs will continuously ARPIT as a refresher course for career develop new refresher module in their advancement of faculty earmarked discipline each year. The training materials will be uploaded and » All faculty in Higher Educational made available through SWAYAM. NRC Institutions to be encouraged to join will publish the list of the faculty who have ARPIT Courses on SWAYAM. been certified. The NRCs will revolutionize professional development of faculty by Contact : Dr. Shakila T. Shamsu catering to massive numbers by leveraging OSD(NEP), Department of ICT and online technology platform of Higher Education, MHRD SWAYAM. [email protected] There would be an End Term Proctored Technical : Swayam Helpline Examination, after completion of ARPIT Assistance (18001219025) Course, based on which the learners Email : [email protected] (teachers) would be certified. MHRD : Vandana, Consultant UGC has notified the equivalence of ARPIT as a refresher course for Career Email : [email protected] 20 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION GENERAL OBSERVATIONS 1. Each Institute (University/College) 5. Faculty should be motivated to should nominate a tech savvy faculty disseminate the information on digital as Nodal Officer (TEL)-TEL refers to initiatives to the students. Technology Enabled Learning 6. Faculty should be motivated to take 2. Nodal Officer (TEL) should organise up courses in SWAYAM and ARPIT, to meeting of all faculty, to be chaired by understand firsthand the experience Vice Chancellor/Principal to brief about of digital education. This will make the the various digital initiatives possible to faculty to motivate the students, with be implemented. This session should conviction be used to enlighten the faculty about 7. The Local Chapters (Digital Learning the benefits of digital initiatives, for the Monitoring Centres) should act as students. Digital Learning Clubs, in discussing 3. Vice-Chancellor/Principal should and disseminating the information on motivate the faculty to accept the various digital initiatives, motivating the changes happening in the education students to register and get enrolled, sphere and embrace the digital facilitating credit transfer, suggesting initiatives. new courses, exam registration and helping students during the delivery of 4. Printed Pamphlets (consisting of courses. various digital initiatives) should be distributed to all faculty. (MHRD will help in providing the soft copy of the same) 21 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION Annexure-I 22 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 23 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 24 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 25 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION Annexure-II 26 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 27 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 28 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 29 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION Annexure-III 30 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 31 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 32 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 33 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 34 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 35 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 36 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 37 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 38 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 39 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 40 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 41 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 42 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 43 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 44 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 45 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 46 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 47 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION Annexure-IV 48 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 49 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 50 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION Annexure-V 51 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 52 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 53 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 54 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 55 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 56 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 57 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 58 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 59 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION Annexure-VI 60 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 61 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION Annexure-VII Contact details of National Coordinator S. National Coordinator Area Contact No. Dr.(Mrs.) Pankaj Mittal, Additional University Grants PG Non 1 Secretary-I , UGC pankajmittal. Commission Engineering [email protected], [email protected] Prof. Jagat Bhushan Nadda, Consortium UG Non Director, CEC 2 for Educational Engineering [email protected] , director@ Communication cec-ugc.org National Programme Prof. Andrew Thangaraj, NPTEL UG & PG 3 on Technology coordinator Engineering Enhanced Learning [email protected] Indian Institute Prof. P.D. Jose, Chair, MOOCs 4 Of Management Management Initiative, IIM Bangalore Bangalore [email protected] National Council of Prof. Amarendra Behera, Joint School 9th to 5 Educational Research Director, CIET - NCERT 12th and Training [email protected] Certificate Dr. Uma Kanjilal, Director , (IUC- Indira Gandhi National 6 & Diploma TEFED) , IGNOU Open University Courses [email protected] Prof. SUDHINDRA NATH PANDA, National Council of Director ,NITTTR Chennai 7 Educational Research Teacher Training [email protected] , and Training [email protected] Prof. C.B. Sharma, Chairman, NIOS The National Institute Open School 9th 8 [email protected] , cbsharma01@ of Open Schooling to 12th gmail.com Annual Refresher Programme Dr. N.H. Siddalingaswamy, All India Council of 9 in Teaching Director (e-Governance), AICTE Technical Education & Foreign [email protected] Universities 62 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION Technical Popular Courses of January 2019 Semester Top 20 NPTEL Courses S. No. Course Title National Coordinator Total Enrolment 1 Programming in Java NPTEL 66613 Problem solving through 2 NPTEL 65678 Programming In C 3 Joy of computing using Python NPTEL 57209 Non-Conventional Energy 4 NPTEL 50020 Resources Programming, Data Structures 5 NPTEL 48413 and Algorithms using Python 6 Data Base Management System NPTEL 42625 Enhancing Soft Skills and 7 NPTEL 38561 Personality 8 Machine Learning NPTEL 38449 9 Programming In C++ NPTEL 37993 Introduction to Internet of 10 NPTEL 34062 Things 11 Cloud Computing NPTEL 28864 12 Big Data Computing NPTEL 21767 Machine Learning for 13 Engineering and Science NPTEL 21534 Applications 14 Better Spoken English NPTEL 20563 15 Digital Electronic Circuits NPTEL 19121 Microprocessors And 16 NPTEL 18418 Microcontrollers 17 Data Mining NPTEL 18004 18 Electric Vehicles - Part 1 NPTEL 17485 Design and Analysis of 19 NPTEL 17036 Algorithms 20 CMOS Digital VLSI Design NPTEL 15977 63 DIGITAL INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION Non-Technical Popular Courses of January 2019 Semester Top 20 Non NPTEL Courses S. No. Course Title National Coordinator Total Enrolment 1 ICT in Teaching and Learning. NITTTR 8612 2 Artificial Intelligence UGC 5737 Academic and Research Report 3 NITTTR 4731 Writing 4 Problem Based Learning NITTTR 4598 Advertising and Consumer 5 CEC 4044 Behaviour 6 Learning and Instruction NITTTR 3172 Introduction to Marketing 7 IIM Bangalore 2990 Essentials 8 Nature of Language CEC 2915 9 IT Fundamentals CEC 2718 Introduction to Managerial 10 IIM Bangalore 2660 Economics 11 Basics of Photography CEC 2634 Awareness Programme on Solar 12 IGNOU 2396 Water Pumping System Solid and Hazardous Waste 13 UGC 2375 Management 14 Intellectual Property Rights IIM Bangalore 2162 Communication Technologies in 15 UGC 2159 Education Fundamentals of Outcome- 16 based Curriculum in Engineering NITTTR 1987 Education 17 Animations UGC 1980 Plant biochemistry and plant 18 CEC 1966 biotechnology 19 Senior Secondary-Psychology NIOS 1919 Introduction to Operations 20 IIM Bangalore 1906 Management 64