Higher Education- E-Resources:

e-ShodhSindhu

Based on the recommendation of an Expert Committee, the Ministry of HRD (now renamed as Ministry of Education) has formed e-ShodhSindhu merging three consortia initiatives, namely UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, NLIST and INDEST-AICTE Consortium.

The e-ShodhSindhu will continue to provide current as well as archival access to more than 10,000 core and peer-reviewed journals and a number of bibliographic, citation and factual databases in different disciplines from a large number of publishers and aggregators to its member institutions including centrally-funded technical institutions, universities and colleges that are covered under 12(B) and 2(f) Sections of the UGC Act.

The main objective of the e-Shodh Sindhu: Consortia for Higher Education E-Resources is to provide access to qualitative electronic resources including full-text, bibliographic and factual databases to academic institutions at a lower rates of subscription.

 

Shodhganga

A reservoir of Indian Theses: The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs submitted by the researchers.

The word “Shodh” originates from Sanskrit and stands for “research and discovery”. “Gangotri” is one of the largest glaciers in the Himalayas and the source of origination of the Ganges, the holiest, longest, and largest of rivers in India. The Ganges is the symbol of age-long culture, civilization, ever-aging, ever-flowing, ever-loving, and loved by its people.

 

ShodhGangotri

Repository of Research in Progress/Synopses: Under the initiative called “ShodhGangotri”, research scholars/research supervisors in universities are requested to deposit an electronic version of the approved synopsis submitted by research scholars to the universities for registering themselves for the Ph.D. programme now it is expanded to MRPs/PDFs/Emeritus Fellowship, etc.

The repository on one hand would reveal the trends and directions of research being conducted in Indian universities, on the other hand, it would avoid duplication of research. Synopsis in “ShodhGangotri” would later be mapped to full-text theses in "ShodhGanga". As such, once the full-text thesis is submitted for a synopsis, a link to the full-text theses would be provided from ShodhGangotri to "ShodhGanga".

 

SWAYAM

SWYAM is an Indian government portal for a free massive open online course (MOOC) platform providing educational courses for university and college learners. SWAYAM stands for Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds. This is a program under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)

It was launched on 9 July 2017 by Pranab Mukherjee, Honorable President of India.

SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.

It facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms from Class 9 till post-graduation to be accessed by anyone, anywhere at any time. All the courses are interactive, prepared by the best teachers in the country and are available, free of cost to any learner. More than 1,000 specially chosen faculty and teachers from across the country have participated in preparing these courses.

1.     The courses hosted on SWAYAM are in 4 quadrants – (1) video lecture,

2.     (2) specially prepared reading material that can be downloaded/printed

3.     (3) self-assessment tests through tests and quizzes and

4.     (4) an online discussion forum for clearing the doubts. Steps have been taken to enrich the learning experience by using audio-video and multi-media and state of the art pedagogy / technology.

ten National Coordinators have been appointed. They are:

1.     AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) for self-paced and international courses

2.     NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) for Engineering

3.     UGC (University Grants Commission) for non technical post-graduation education

4.     CEC (Consortium for Educational Communication) for under-graduate education

5.     NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) for school education

6.     NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) for school education

7.     IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) for out-of-school students

8.     IIMB (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) for management studies

9.     NITTTR (National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research) for Teacher Training programme

10.  INI (Institutes of National Importance) for Non-Technical Courses

Website:  https://swayam.gov.in/

 

SWAYAM-PRABHA

 

The SWAYAM-PRABHA is a group of 40 DTH channels devoted to telecasting of high-quality educational programmes on 24X7 basis using the GSAT-15 satellite. The aim of SWAYAM Prabha is to increase access and equity in education, especially in remote and underserved areas. It aims to provide free-to-air, high-quality educational content to students across India.

Innagurated on 07 July, 2017.

Website: http://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/

Boquet of 280+ DTH channels for education, including:

Ø  Higher Education: 40 channels

Ø  SATHEE (Competitive Exam): 10 Channels

 

Ø  School Education (PM e-VIDYA): 200 channels

PM e-Vidya:

 

PM eVidya is a unique and innovative venture by the Ministry of Education, Government of India to facilitate multi-mode access to digital/online teaching-learning contents of various types among students and teachers. The uniqueness of the PM e-Vidya lies with its comprehensive accessibility for all as it caters the education content to all with its multi-mode set-up of remote learning platforms including internet, radio, community radio, podcast, and TV.

One of the significant initiatives of PM eVidya is creating 12 (now 200) PM eVidya TV channels on One Class-One channel to broadcast educational content related to classes 1 to 12. PM eVidya DTH channels benefit learners in remote areas where stable internet is not available. 

Website: https://pmevidya.education.gov.in/

Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing (DIKSHA) portal and mobile app created by MHRD, Govt. of India is a store house of large number of eBooks and e-Contents created by States/UTs and National level organizations. It is launched by the Hon’ble Vice President of India on 5^th September 2017.

Website: https://diksha.gov.in

Content for Children with Special Needs especially for the Visually and Hearing impaired learners.

E-Abhyas is a personalised adaptive learning platform for students taking competitive exams – JEE and NEET - conducted by the National Testing Agency.

IIT Pal or IIT Professor Assisted Learning is a series of lectures prepared by IIT Professors to help students prepare for the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE). Channel no 22 has been allocated for this.

e-PG patashala

 

e-PG Pathshala is an initiative of the MHRD under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) being executed by the UGC. The content and its quality being the key component of education system, high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content in 70 subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages have been developed by the subject experts working in Indian universities and other R & D institutes across the country.