Friday, October 5, 2018
Thursday, August 2, 2018
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
RESOURCE CENTER
FOR EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Contents:
- CIET
- SIET
- UGC
- EMRC
- C-DIT
- EDUSAT
- IT@School
- VICTERS
- AKSHAYA
- GYANDARSHAN
- INFLIBENT
- NPTEL
1. CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY (CIET)
Central Institute Of Educational Technology(CIET), a constituent unit of NCERT, came into existence in the year 1984 with the merger of Center for Educational Technology and Department of Teaching Aids. CIET is a premiere national institute of educational technology. Its major aim is to promote utilization of educational technologies viz. radio, TV, films, Satellite communications and cyber media either separately or in combinations. The institute undertakes activities to widen educational opportunities, promote equity and improve quality of educational processes at school level.
2. STATE INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY(SIET)
The state Institute of Educational Technology, SIET was constituted by Government of India in all the State with an intention to promote the level of learning and also to educate the student’s with the help of Radio and Television. SIET Kerala is the latest in the array of 7 SIET in the Country. Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India. SIET Kerala was constituted under the Travancore Literary Scientific and Charitable Societies Act 1951 on 08.09.1999 as an autonomous society with register No. T. 1373/99. It works as an agency under the Department of Education, Government of kerala. It is responsible for the planning, research, production and evaluation of educational schemes to generate teaching technologies and learning process in the modern context. The institute has adopted itself to play a catalytic role in fostering as well as supporting and supplementing the educational movement in the state particularly in the arena of Primary education. Its area of operation covers the preparation of video / audio programmes for the children of 5 to 17 years of age (Class 1 to Class 12) and the teachers in the regional language in the form of supportive factor for the conventional class room teaching.
3. UNIVERSITY GRANT COMMISSION(UGC)
The University Grants Commission (UGC) of India is a statutory body set up by the Indian Union government in accordance to the UGC Act 1956under Ministry of Human Resource Development, and is charged with coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of higher education. It provides recognition to universities in India, and disburses funds to such recognized universities and colleges. Prof. Ved Prakash is the incumbent Chairman of UGC, India. Its headquarters is in New Delhi, and six regional centers in Pune, Bhopal, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Guwahati and Bangalore.
4. Educational Multimedia Research Centers (EMRC)
In 1984 University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi has launched Country Wide Class Room (CWCR) and production facilities at 6 universities in India through establishing media centers in the name of Audio Visual Research Centers (AVRCs) later these centers have been renamed as Educational Multimedia Research Centers (EMRC). This was mainly to use electronic media for the quality enrichment of higher education. UGC began its transmission of Country Wide Class Room (CWCR) programme from 15th August 1984 through Doordarshan National network. Initially the co-ordination with these centers was done from UGC office with the support of a consultant. Subsequently, an Inter-University Centre named as ‘Consortium for Educational Communication’ (CEC) was set up in the year 1993 to co-ordinate with media centers (AVRCs and EMMRCs) and to make CWCR mission most effective and successful.
AVRC: Audio Visual Research Centre provides valuable resource material for higher education and mass communication. MCRC Mass Communication Research Centre is a premier media institution in India by UGC. The programmes produced at the center are televised under UGC/CEC countrywide classroom programme. During 1996-97, the center produced 16 educational programmes covering various subjects like earth sciences, ecology, wildlife, chemistry, maths, sports, social sciences and classical dance etc. despite staffing constraints. Of these 6 programmes were produced in Hindi.
The center also undertakes research in all aspects of educational technology in relation to learning for both urban and rural collage going students in various disciplines. It invites faculty from within and outside the University as subject experts to participate in the activities of the center to write scripts on the topics of their subject specialization followed by the production of film. The center has made about 180 programmes covering various subjects and areas.
Objectives:
1. To map the audience profile in terms of demographic, socioeconomic and educational background along with their media habits.
2. To assess the usefulness of multimedia inputs in the lectures/topics telecast in the channel.
3. To examine the feedback about these programmes in terms of quality, content, presentation, language, usefulness towards their course or otherwise.
4. To examine whether it helps the teachers in higher education by enabling them to teach more effectively.
EMRC : it is the constant endeavor of EMRCs to get the best teachers from across the country to deliver high quality lectures to be telecast on Gyandarshan and Vyas, the 24 hour higher educational channel. With the advent of internet, the activities of EMRC has also diversified, in addition to the educational television programmes, it is also active in developing e-content and e-learning packages for web based education and webcasting through the National Knowledge Network. The main objective of the center is to produce high-quality educational TV programmes, develop e-learning applications such as e-content, LORs, multicast live interactive lectures using EDUSAT and conduct media research.
The Extension activities of EMRC include organizing regular workshops and seminars to train the interested faculty of all the Universities in the state in TV presentation skills, development of television and e-content scripts etc. and to provide internship programmes to PG students of Mass Communication from across the state of Odisha.
5. CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT OF IMAGING TECHNOLOGY(C-DIT)
Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT) is a unique organization working in the area of convergence and beyond of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Content development and dissemination in multi-media formats. C-DIT is proud of having a talented pool of creative personnel working in close collaboration with qualified and experienced technological work force. C-DIT has reorganized its activities through four functional Groups, each specializing in a core area, viz. Communication Group, Technology Group, Education & Training Group and Operations Group. C-DIT has been functioning as a Total Solutions Provider to the departments and agencies under the Government of Kerala in the areas of ICT applications and in supply of Holography based security products.
6. EDUSAT
EDUSAT is the satellite exclusively devoted to meet the demands of educational sector. It was launched on September20, 2004 by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to meet ever increasing demand for an interactive satellite-based distance education system for the country. It has revolutionized classroom teaching through IP based technology. EDUSAT has five KU band transponders providing spot beams, one KU beam transponder providing national beam and six extended C-band transponders providing national coverage beams.
Consortium for Educational Commission (CEC) is one amongst the five primary users of this educational satellite. ISRO has adjudged the CEC as “the best EDUSAT National Beam User” in July 2008.
At present, there are over hundred Satellite Interactive Terminals (SITs) and Receive only Terminals (RoTs) under CEC EDUSAT network, installed at various colleges, Academic Staff Colleges and Universities across the country. Many more are being added with the purpose of providing quality higher education to the remote areas through satellite network.CEC EDUSAT network is empowering students through cutting edge technology and caters the needs of students across the country.
7. IT@SCHOOL
IT@School is a project of Department of General Education, Government of Kerala, setup in 2001, to foster the IT education in schools and which on a longer term would facilitate ICT enabled education in the state.
The Project is now been implemented from 5th to 12th Standards in the state covering as many as 8000 schools. An estimated 50 lakhs students and 2 lakhs teachers are now part of this project who have benefited from ICT enabled education. Today, the Project is on the verge of completing its 10th year of operation and it has a strong network of 160 Master Trainers and 5600 School IT Co-ordinators statewide, who are school teachers themselves. The Project functions on Free Software platform since it provides the freedom to an individual to study, copy, modify and re-distribute any content, a process which would ultimately benefit the whole society. The Project aims to empower all the school teachers in the state on ICT tools, making them IT champions and also to implement ICT enabled learning system for all subjects. Apart from infrastructure deployment to schools, the Project also ensures the proper maintenance of hardware equipments at schools through Hardware Clinics and reporting of faulty machines through the webportal which would then be rectified. Being the nodal agency of General Education department for e-governance, almost all the functions of the department has been automated by the Project
IT@School is the nodal agency for implementing EDUSAT network and runs an exclusive channel for education called ViCTERS (Virtual Classroom Technology on Edusat for Rural Schools), which is now aired for 17 hours a day- from 6am to 11pm. The project has now associated with BSNL to provide Internet broad band connectivity to all high schools in Kerala. . The success of the Project can be visualised by the conduct IT practical examination in free software for about 4 million students, first of this kind in the world with so much vast resourceful deployment of free software. The efforts of Project saw deployment of adequate IT infrastructure to all schools including computers and other accessories. Today, the Project is termed as the "Single largest simultaneous deployment of FOSS based ICT education in the world."
8. VICTERS
IT@School is the nodal agency for implementing the EDUSAT network, and runs an exclusive channel for education called VICTERS (Versatile ICT Enabled Resource for Students), which is aired from 6am to 11pm. India's epoch making first broadband network on EDUSAT for schools, "VICTERS" inaugurated by A P J Abdul Kalam, the president of India, on 28 July 2005 in Thiruvananthapuram. VICTERS offers interactive virtual classrooms that enable the school students as well as the teachers to directly communicate with the subject experts and educationists. It also ensures the dissemination of high quality education to the students and teachers from the original source. Various programmes telecast through VICTERS are as follows; Padanakauthukam, Shastrakauthukam educational programmes
a) Examination oriented programme for SSLC and Plus 2 level
9. AKSHAYA
Akshaya, an innovative project implemented in the State of Kerala aimed at bridging the digital divide, addresses the issues of ICT access, basic skill sets and availability of relevant content. Quality ICT dissemination and service delivery facilities (‘Akshaya Centers’) are set up within a maximum of 2 kilometers for any household and networked leveraging entrepreneurship.
Today, Akshaya is acting as an instrument in rural empowerment and economic development. The project is a catalyst in creating massive economic growth and creation of direct and indirect employment in the State by focusing on the various facts of e-learning, e-transaction, e- governance etc. Thus, the project is having a long-standing impact on the social, economic and political scenario of the State.
10. GYANDARSHAN
A 24×7 dedicated education TV channel will be rolled out soon. The human resources development ministry plans to launch an exclusive channel (on Gyan Darshan) which will beam programmes on formal education and adult literacy.
A slew of departments, including NCERT, IGNOU and National Institute of Open Schools, have been roped in to make the channel a reality
While NCERT will be the nodal agency, IGNOU’s Electronic Media Production Centre will handle the uplinking. Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET), an NCERT unit, will submit the programme plan for the first three months to the ministry. Currently, Gyan Darshan channel beams programmes only a couple of hours every day.
The announcement comes at a time when the Centre is finding it difficult to bring states on board to implement the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Act), 2009. Apart from formal education, both in school and through open education, adult literacy programmes will be the focal point. The HRD ministry launched the Sakshar Bharat Mission to achieve 80% literacy by 2012.
The task of producing quality programmes will be shouldered by Films Division, Doordarshan, Vigyan Prasar
Karnataka, one of the first states to introduce satellite-based education in universities and for teacher training in schools, welcomed the initiative.
11. INFLIBNET
Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre is an autonomous Inter-University Centre of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India. It is a major National Programme initiated by the UGC in March 1991 with its Head Quarters at Gujarat University Campus, Ahmedabad. Initially started as a project under the IUCAA, it became an independent Inter-University Centre in June 1996.
INFLIBNET is involved in modernizing university libraries in India and connecting them as well as information centers in the country through a nation-wide high speed data network using the state-of-art technologies for the optimum utilisation of information. INFLIBNET is set out to be a major player in promoting scholarly communication among academicians and researchers in India.
Objectives:
The primary objectives of INFLIBNET as envisaged in Memorandum of Association are:To promote and establish communication facilities to improve capability in information transfer and access, that provide support to scholarship, learning, research and academic pursuit through cooperation and involvement of agencies concerned.
To establish INFLIBNET: Information and Library Network a computer communication network for linking libraries and information centers in universities, deemed to be universities, colleges, UGC information centers, institutions of national importance and R & D institutions, etc. avoiding duplication of efforts.
a) To facilitate academic communication amongst scientist, engineers, social scientists, academics, faculties, researchers and students through electronic mail, file transfer, computer/audio/video conferencing, etc
12. NPTEL
NPTEL is an acronym for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning which is an initiative by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for creating course contents in engineering and science. NPTEL as a project originated from many deliberations between IITs, Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) during the years 1999-2003. A proposal was jointly put forward by five IITs (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Madras) and IISc for creating contents for 100 courses as web based supplements and 100 complete video courses, for forty hours of duration per course. Web supplements were expected to cover materials that could be delivered in approximately forty hours. Five engineering branches (Civil, Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics and Communication and Mechanical) and core science programmes that all engineering students are required to take in their undergraduate engineering programme in India were chosen initially. Contents for the above courses were based on the model curriculum suggested by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the syllabi of major affiliating Universities in India.
Course contents will be useful for teacher training and through them improve the quality of students. In addition, the course materials (both web and video) are freely accessible by everyone independent of their geographic location. These courses can be used by professionals for updating their academic background. Open and distance education using NPTEL contents are long term prospects for IITs. The contents will hopefully help evolve criteria for focused learning and a common set of standards for professional education in India through participation by everyone concerned under this platform.
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മാനം കവരുന്ന
കാമഭ്രാന്തരെ ഭയക്കാതെ,
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