ADINET e-News Digest

No. 46 July 2018

CONTENTS Page No. PAUSE & PONDER 2 Biz opportunities in Indian education sector @ Open a e-library/ 2 e-book club Learning curve @ Education Loan 2 National digital drug database to be a reality soon as DTAB 2 backsDrugs and Cosmetics (D&C) Rules amendment to make submission mandatory Learning Outcomes in India @ Less talk & More Action 3 Classrooms still have a lesson for online courses 3 AICTE @ Internship Day Fourth Saturday of August – Intern 4 shala: To Honour Colleges with Best Internship Record Exploring the Relevance of Libraries in the Internet Age 4 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2018 5 Mumbai’s Open Study Centers @ Underprivileged Students can 6 build their dreams Website Monitoring Services @ five best options 6 Novel Initiative @ Encourage Science Communication 7 SUITE YOURSELF @ Other than , Free Cloud- 8 based Alternatives Collaborative Marketing 9 A School Without Walls @ Anand Shanti Niketan 9 Digital Addiction @ Can we outsmart Smart phones? 10 Virtual Reality - Concerns & Challenges 10 This couple requested books as a wedding gift to set up a 11 library for the needy @ Unique Initiative towards Library Development Relevance @ New Skill 11 Web 3.0 – The Tech Industry’s Next Stage 12 Digital Revolution: Learning Modes & Resources 12 From preservation to perpetuation @ KM Deep Approach 13

3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g est No.46 July 2018 Page 1 PAUSE & PONDER The applicant for an education loan must be a citizen of India. A good academic If you start each day with a smile in the record is preferable. The lending institution may seek relevant documents and mark morning, you might be surprised at the sheets. positive energy that you will carry throughout the day. Every day, try to Concise From think of the things that make you smile. | https://www.telegraphindia.com/business All of us do have many reasons to /learning-curve-233664 smile. National digital drug database to be a Biz opportunities in Indian education reality soon as DTAB backsDrugs and sector @ Open a e-library/ e-book club Cosmetics (D&C) Rules amendment to make submission mandatory List of five business opportunities that ‘edupreneurs’ in India can use to make a The Central Drugs Standard Control mark in the sector. Organization’s (CDSCO) bid to create India’s first national digital database for Start a day-care / pre-school pharmaceuticals has got a shot in the arm with the Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) agreeing to the proposal to make Private tutorial service a declaration mechanism mandatory for all firms licensed to manufacture medicines in Open an e-library/ e-book club India. The apex drug advisory body on technical matters has also backed Skill development /Training school amendments to the Drugs and Cosmetics (D&C) Rules of 1945 to bring the initiative Educational tours for school to fruition, it is learnt. children The central regulator aims at making it ConciseFrom| https://www.newstodaynet.c mandatory for all drug makers to upload om/index.php/2018/05/28/biz- the details of their manufacturing licenses opportunities-in-indian-education- and list of products on ‘Sugam’, an online sector/?upm_export=pdf portal developed by the health ministry. The state licensing authorities can easily Learning curve @ Education Loan verify it by checking the inputs on the site. Once it is made mandatory, all the The cost of higher education is steep, and manufacturers will be putting details of the graph is expected to rise in the coming their facilities and products regularly in the years to surpass the rate of inflation. It's database. not easy to fund a degree whose cost may be several times the family's annual “At present, India doesn’t have income. And that is where education loans comprehensive information on domestic come in. drug manufacturing industry and the CDSCO has to bank on data obtained An education loan is taken by a student as from state authorities. And many a time, the primary applicant. Parents or siblings the state officials are helpless in providing can stand in as a co-applicant. Before specific real-time data. The ‘Sugam’ portal applying for a loan, it is mandatory to can resolve this issue to a great extent if qualify for admission in a course from a the current self-declaration clause is made recognized educational institution mandatory,” an industry lobby group accredited with the UGC and according to representative opined. norms laid down by the lending institutions.

3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g est No.46 July 2018 Page 2 The database would come in handy for the · First, we need clear examples of drug manufacturers and consumers alike what good quality education looks as it provides details of licenses issued for like· Second, we need to focus on manufacturing sites and drug formulations classroom practice by state FDAs along with a list of approved wholesalers and retailers. · Third, we need to involve parents

It may be noted that the Union health · Fourth, we need to scale ministry has been striving to digitize programmes that demonstrate impact and information key to healthcare to enable not just run to the next innovation or pilot interoperability and exchange of data in the country. The government has recently · Fifth, we need to partner more finalized the draft of the proposed digital information security in healthcare act Link| http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op- (disha) to establish a nodal agency for ed/less-talk-more- creating regulatory framework for digital action/article24203172.ece healthcare data. Classrooms still have a lesson for Indian pharma sector is estimated to online courses account for 3.6 per cent of the global pharmaceutical industry in value terms KunalVed, a relationship manager in a and 10 per cent in volume terms. It is private bank, is taking up an e- expected to grow to $100 billion by 2025. learning course to upskill himself on the According to official estimates, the sector digital learning platform ‘Imarticus’. “The would generate 58,000 additional job course is not completely online and we opportunities by the year 2025. meetco-learners for a few days every month to discuss varying experience Source levels and get a better sense of the http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=109146&sid=1content. Besides, we have the flexibility of accommodating our work schedules and

Learning Outcomes in India @ Less course timings,” he said. talk & More Action Even as corporates adopt e- When it comes to improving learning learning platforms and micro-learning to upskill their employees, classroom outcomes in India, we have no time to teaching has not lost its sheen. Blended waste. No time for conference speakers to learning — a combination of online drone on, no time for research that only courses and offline touch points — is produces another report on poor learning increasingly adopted by corporates and levels in the country, and no time to individuals. complain about how accountability systems and processes are broken. Too E-learning service providers see a 25-30% increase in companies opting for blended many children are not learning and every learning over 100% classroom or e- moment that we don’t act is a moment learning courses. Facilitating discussions wasted in a child’s life. We also need to and collaborative learning, blended act in ways that will focus on improving learning offers flexibility for working learning. While there has been an professionals and also fosters better increase in education spending over the completion rates. last five years, learning outcomes have been poor and have been declining. Imarticus learning managing director Nikhil Barsikhar said, “For those looking for employment and new career opportunities, 30% of the course is recommended to be

3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g est No.46 July 2018 Page 3 acquired online, and those who want to event will be held on 25th August 2018 in upskill, look for 20% of the course Delhi. contents through touch points, since it facilitates collaborative learning.” AICTE is working to improve the employability of students and has Experts from the field are roped in to offer mandated internships for all the students the missing links in e-learning enrolled in AICTE approved academic components. ‘Udacity’ offers the course in institutions. To make internships popular its B2B offering to corporates for its nano- among the student and the college degree programs. The company recently communities and to acknowledge the partnered with Infosys for colleges putting significant efforts to help ‘UdacityConnect’, a combined in-person their students, AICTE, with the help of and online training offering in autonomous Internshala, will recognise the colleges. vehicles. AICTE Chairman, Dr Anil D Udacity India MD Ishan Gupta said, “The Sahasrabudhe, said, "Internships are an 20-week program is training select Infosys essential part of the college life for engineers in self-driving car technology, students. It helps them gain immense including advanced concepts of deep exposure, develop entrepreneurial learning and machine learning. It is a abilities, and learn industry-specific skills, blended learning model, which enabling them to land their dream jobs. commenced with virtual classes and then The college, including faculties and the converted to in-person trainerled classes T&Ps, plays an essential role in preparing at the Mysuru campus of the company.” the students for their future jobs, and through the Internship Day event, we hope Companies say that for courses done to see greater participation from students solely on e-learning, completion rates are and colleges in promoting internship at around 30%. culture in India."

Great Learning founder and CEO Mohan Sarvesh Agrawal, the founder and CEO of Lakhamraju said, “Learners find the drive Internshala, said, "We are really excited to to take up courses for hybrid or blended collaborate with AICTE to recognise learning, because of collaborative learning India's best colleges with internship and the personal touch. The completion culture. Since 2010, Internshala has been rates have doubled and have gone up to on a mission to build an internship culture 90%.” in India and through the Internship Day, we hope to make internships even more popular among students across India and Source | Times of India | 30th May 2018 acknowledge the efforts of the Training and Placement officers who shape the AICTE @ Internship Day Fourth future of the students." Saturday of August – Internshala: To Honour Colleges with Best Internship Source Record https://www.ndtv.com/education/aicte- internshala-to-honor-colleges-with-best- New Delhi: All India Council for Technical internship-record-1859489 Education (AICTE) and Internshala have announced Internship Day to be held on Exploring the Relevance of Libraries in the fourth Saturday of August. The the Internet Age Internship Day will felicitate colleges with the best internship record. The event is meant to acknowledge the colleges who We visit libraries in Delhi to assess their have made remarkable efforts in helping relevance for the younger internet their students secure internships during generation the months of April - July. This year, the

3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g est No.46 July 2018 Page 4 NEW DELHI: The world over, the digital literature based libraries of the city like age has seen the decline of libraries -- Nehru Memorial library and with more and more governments cutting SahityaAkademi Library. “Over the years, crucial funding that supports public we have seen more people coming to our libraries. As the younger generation turns library, especially those who are to the internet, Pankaj Singh, a Librarian researching in inter-disciplinary field”, at Dyal Singh Public Library sums up the says Dr. Ajit Kumar (Library & Information importance of libraries in the statement Officer), Nehru Memorial Library. “libraries are the real heritage of a city.” In the last two decades, the advent of “The Library is a place of knowledge technology has led to a huge increase in dissemination. Number of people visiting consumer options. library doesn’t matter as much as potential Online ecommerce stores (Flipkart, users. We get request from all over India Amazon), smart phones, e-readers and for references from rarest books collection tablets have entered our fast paced lives. which we maintain. There are around 10- For all the convenience they bring, we 15 people who have been regular to our have seen a huge shift in how we choose library for over 20 years now. Internet can to read -- e-books have become as supplement the knowledge from books, common as paperback books itself, and but books are here to stay.” the trends show that e-books will only says Dr. Sufian Ahmad (Librarian), increase in popularity as time goes by. SahityaAkademi Library.

So, would it be a logical to infer that fewer Source people would take the trouble of visiting a | http://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/new library? By extension, it’s worth asking the sdetail/index/8/13957/exploring-the- question -- are libraries now becoming relevance-of-libraries-in-the-internet-age redundant? Let’s look at a few prominent libraries in the New Delhi to provide some Times Higher Education World insight into the troubling question. Reputation Rankings 2018

Delhi’s oldest library, Hardayal Municipal The Times Higher Education World Public Library, is over 100 years old now. Reputation Rankings 2018 are based on Located in a silent alley of Chandni chowk, the world’s largest invitation-only opinion the library is fully packed even on a hot survey of senior, published academics. It summer afternoon. Everything is still old asks scholars to name no more than 15 school here with plans of having an e- universities that they believe are the best library not an immediate concern. Sunita, for research and teaching in their field, who is studying for her bank examinations based on their own experience. here, says, “I come here because there isn’t enough space in my house to study The Top 10 of the annual list, compiled peacefully. I get AC, too, here.” from a global survey of more than 10,000 senior academics between January and As per records at DPL and DSPL, their March 2018, remains almost unchanged membership has been rising over the from last year, said THE in a release. years. Most come here for economical reasons but demands for Harvard University is in first place for the books are not restricted only to eighth year in a row, followed by: competitive exams books, which partly Massachusetts Institute of Technology; explains the 2 lakh+ multilingual books at Stanford University; University of DPL and around 43000+ at DSPL. Cambridge; University of Oxford; University of California, Berkeley; Princeton University; Yale University; Trend of increasing membership is University of California, Los Angeles; and witnessed even in more research and University of Chicago.

3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g est No.46 July 2018 Page 5 There are 21 countries represented in medium-size concrete construction, with what seems to actually be a Top 105, as tables, chairs, charging points and fans. there are 25 universities in the 81-100 An advanced version of the one in Colaba, group. this one is packed during exam time. Ashwini is 20 years old and admitted to Switzerland, Canada, France, Australia studying only at the last minute. and South Korea each have three universities on the list. There are two Not libraries universities each from Singapore, Russia and Sweden, and one each from Belgium, The students are poring over their books, Taiwan, Denmark, Israel, Finland and taking notes or a few taking cat naps. But India – the Indian Institute of Science is in why not just go to a library? the 91-100 group. “Libraries don’t allow any group study and Ranking Available there are not too many free ones. This | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/w place has everything, we don’t feel the orld-university-rankings/2018/reputation- need to go to libraries,” said Rajeshwari, a ranking#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/s B Com student. Both centers are open ort_order/asc/cols/stats 24×7, though students recommend carrying mosquito repellents at night.A Mumbai’s Open Study Centers @ similar center stands at the Walter De Underprivileged Students can build Souza garden in Marine Lines. However, their dreams this one shuts at 8 pm.

In the city of dreams and paradoxes, Reputation aspirations of many who want to pursue higher education are often crushed in their What makes these centers tick? Their 180-200 Square feet homes. Five to six reputation as exclusive study centers for members of a family live in each of the underprivileged students keeps cramped dwellings in chawls and slums miscreants away. Additionally, they signal and the atmosphere is hardly conducive accessibility and are open all day, the for any meaningful academic pursuits. latter being a very important factor for students who prefer to study at night.With The Study Centre near the Cooperage adequate neighborhood and societal Ground in Colaba is the refuge of many participation, they could certainly make a such students. “I live in a slum in Cuffe- positive difference to the lives of the Parade. I’ve been coming here for the last underprivileged. 4-5 years and spend nearly my whole day here. This is where I studied for my boards Press Release | Mumbai’s open study too,” said Pinky, currently pursuing her centres help build dreams for second year B.Com. underprivileged students

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3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g est No.46 July 2018 Page 9 In 2002, when Babar was 9-year-old, he from the stategovernment, monetary aid is started teaching his sister under a tree in yet to reach the school. the backyard of his house. This prompted other kids to join him. Babar was one of Source | Times of India | 26th June 2018 the few village boys who attended a school, 10 km from their village, so he Digital Addiction @ Can we outsmart would teach his sister and other kids Smartphones? whatever he studied in the school. A new study finds that smartphone use The trust of the villagers grew, and soon, can be similar to other types of substance Babar had made school at his makeshift abuse. It urges us to outsmart setup in the village. He soon acquired the smartphones for our own good. sobriquet of 'youngest headmaster of India', as described in a documentary by Study Available @ Digital Addiction: BBC. Now Babar's school has grown, but Increased Loneliness, Anxiety, and it is yet to get government recognition and Depression | Peper | NeuroRegulation other aids to function smoothly. Virtual Reality - Concerns & Challenges For long, most children in the village helped their parents in making the ends Virtual reality (VR) is a computer- meet, and education was nothing less generated scenario that simulates than a luxury. "When I started teaching experience through senses and children, most parents would ask if perception. learning alphabets and numbers, will fetch them one square meal?," recalls Babar. "It Currently, VR technology uses virtual was very difficult to motivate children, who reality headsets or props to generate spent most of their time grazing cattle in three-dimensional images, sounds and the forest to come and study," he adds. other emotions that simulate the real world in a virtual environment giving the users Getting the girls to school was a bigger an ability to live and explore the virtual challenge. The school, currently has 500 world. VR has applications in a vast students and many have gone ahead to variety of fields e.g. gaming, take undergraduate courses outside the entertainment, robotics, medical, space village. Babar, himself is into studies, as is exploration, education, marketing and so currently pursuing MA in History after on. finishing MA in English Literature.

For him, his biggest achievement is that six girls taught by him, are attending UG Concerns @ Health & Safety course in University of Kalyani, a 170 kilometres journey from the village. Yet another student of Babar, now From a health and safety perspective, teaches in the same school. A Fellow prolonged use of VR may lead to virtual now, Babar has many feathers to his hat, reality sickness with symptoms like as he is featured in Forbes Under 30 list in dizziness, fatigue, disorientation, and the social entrepreneur category in Asia headache. region. Concerns @ Long-Term Effects Financial aids and technical support to set-up computers in his school has come In addition, the long-term effects of virtual from US based NGO - Opportunity reality on vision and neurological Education. However, not much of help has development are still unknown including come from indigenous sources. While the rising concerns of virtual reality addiction school has got accreditation till class VIII and developmental issues in children.

3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g est No.46 July 2018 Page 10 According to Varun Vohra (Expert their guests to bring gifts only in the form from IT audit and security domain) of books. With these gifts, they intend to build a library for the underprivileged VR technology is disruptive in nature children. facing a number of privacy and security challenges. The couple, who always believed in the power of books, has always been For example, VR related products enable interested in social good. Amar works with the collection of personal and health data an NGO called Yuva Chetna, and has of users including sensitive sensory been a social worker for the past 15 years. information like eye and head movement, He always dreamt of helping the students reactions, gestures and other behavioural who wish to take up competitive exams, aspects with or without user’s knowledge. and somehow don't have the means to it.

VR @ Cloud Computing A lot of people in rural Maharashtra neither have the means to afford the It is anticipated that most of the VR books nor the resources to locate them companies will be using cloud otherwise. Competitive exams are hard, based technology for their VR platforms but finding the right books for these exams which adds more weight to the security is even harder. and privacy challenges with the addition of third party cloud vendors to this already The couple put across the idea in their complex landscape. wedding invitation, which was a WhatsApp message, says Indiatimes. Their invite Therefore, it is very important that users was circulated wide, and the wedding saw are wary about the services they sign up people thronging in to support the cause for to ensure their data remains safe and so much, that even strangers stopped by. does not get misused for targeted spams and other malicious activities. The couple has collected nearly 3,000 books, and intend to set up a library in In addition, attacks by bad actors Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, exploiting the vulnerabilities present on the says Kenfolios. Amar is associated with VR platform or supporting cloud the Art of Living, and his wedding saw Sri environment to hijack the VR devices is SriRavishankar guruji gracing and also an area of great concern with serious blessing the newlyweds. implications. It can only be addressed if good system development practices are Source followed by VR companies as well as the | https://yourstory.com/2018/06/amar- cloud vendors and include the right rani-kalamkar-books/ balance of security and privacy controls. Relevance @ New Skill Concise From | http://www.afternoondc.in/epaper/Epaper The competition for employment in the Post.aspx?id=225668 next decade is likely to get harder and only those that rise to relevance will This couple requested books as a flourish. With an increasing number of wedding gift to set up a library for the graduates entering the market every day needy @ Unique Initiative towards and limited job opportunities, only those Library Development with value-added resumes will pass muster with businesses and employers. Weddings are a grand affair in India, but not every wedding leaves behind a legacy Resumes that boast of additional relevant like Amar and Rani Kalamkar's. The qualifications will have an edge for Maharashtrian couple has requested all

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Web 3.0 – The Tech Industry’s Next Digital Revolution: Learning Modes & Stage Resources

Web 1.0 wasn’t given its name until it met Modes of Learning its digital grave. The “World Wide Web” as it was known, was just a set of static ILT – Instructor Led Training websites with a load of information and no interactive content. Online training

… Then there was 2.0 E-learning

This phase of the internet was much more All the above modes of learning are now interactive and gave birth to the age of available with multiple choices. All of these social media. YouTube, modes have now evolved and continue to Wikipedia and Facebook gave everyone a improve by the day providing learners voice and brought together countless like- varied options right form basic tocutting minded communities. edge technology training.

On the surface, the learning curve Resources Available from 2.0 to 3.0 will be smooth. Indian companies understand us better How can we expect things to change as and hence design programs that are better we use the internet? suited to Indian learners. Some of the popular providers include Instead of or Dropbox, decentralized cloud services • www.skillsigma.com like Storj, Siacoin, Filecoin or IPFS • Edureka technology will distribute and store files • Digital Vidhya.

3 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g est No.46 July 2018 Page 12 The Ministry of HRD along with support of The challenges many state governments, AICTE and leading universities also provide multiple So, what’s stopping us from creating as platforms for the benefit of students. Some many knowledge continuums as we want, of them are listed below whenever we want? Three major challenges are: NPTEL (National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning) records management policies, accessible through www.nptel.ac.in knowledge artifact design and Swayam (Free online training portal) accessible ontology management through www.swayam.gov.in Actions to take Virtual Labs (for practicing through virtual environment) accessible making knowledge perpetuation as through www.vlab.co.in well-recognized and accepted as the current practice of physical preservation; PR Link | https://telanganatoday.com/digital- advancing the science and revolution-learning-available- methods needed to support knowledge resources perpetuation and the design, construction and curation of knowledge From preservation to perpetuation @ continuums; and KM Deep Approach taking an active role in helping to We’re quite familiar with the problems of ensure that knowledge perpetuation is knowledge loss, especially of the digital included as part of national-level science variety, as formats and technologies policies and priorities. continue to change every few years. In response, we’ve taken steps such as Full Article digital records management and | http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Colu information governance to preserve our mn/The-Future-of-the-Future/A-deep- critical knowledge artefacts. future-approach-to-KM-125947.aspx

“Knowledge perpetuation” extends these practices to include not only the Information for this issue has been preservation of knowledge, but also provided by Mr. Pralhad Jadhav, Senior the curation of its evolution. Librarian, Khaitan & Co. Mumbai

We define knowledge perpetuation as: the capacity for extending and projecting actionable knowledge over long periods of time spanning multiple generations and even multiple millennia.

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