CMC Proposal SSA

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Primary & Higher Education

Submitted to

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)

Govt of Andhra Pradesh


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Table of contents

1 Introduction .................................................................................................. 5

1.1 About TATA Group and CMC ............................................................................................... 6

1.2 CMCs Strategic Business Units .......................................................................................... 8

1.3 Industry Practices .................................................................................................................. 8

1.4 CMC in Education & Training Services ............................................................................... 9

1.5 Objectives............................................................................................................................... 9

1.6 Product Portfolio.................................................................................................................. 10

1.7 Centre for Education Technology....................................................................................... 11

1.8 CET Product Background................................................................................................... 12

1.9 Compliance.......................................................................................................................... 13

2 Challenges envisaged at present .......................................................... 14

3 Offering from CMC .................................................................................... 14

4 Digital Asset Management System ........................................................ 16

4.1 Advantages of this digital library ........................................................................................ 16

4.2 Implementation of this module ........................................................................................... 16

Content......................................................................................................................................... 16

2.2.2) Scanning, digitizing and storing the document.............................................................. 17

2.2.3) Creating User interface for both administrators and end users............................. ....... 18

5 Multimedia Content Aggregation & Creation (Video lectures,

animations and audio visuals)...................................................................... 19

5.1 Video lectures ...................................................................................................................... 19

5.1.1 Advantages of video lectures.......................................................................................... 19

5.1.2 Implementation of this project......................................................................................... 19

5.2 Animations and audio visuals............................................................................................. 20

5.2.1 Advantages ...................................................................................................................... 20

5.2.2 Implementation of this module........................................................................................ 20

6 Setting up digital knowledge centre (Gyan Kendras) ...................... 21

7 Online portal for education department ............................................... 22

7.1 Advantages of online portal: ............................................................................................... 22


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7.2 Implementation of the project............................................................................................. 30

7.2.1 Survey education department......................................................................................... 30

7.2.2 List out functionalities ...................................................................................................... 30

7.2.3 List out technologies, infrastructure and human resources needed............................ 30

7.2.4 Recruiting human resources........................................................................................... 30

7.2.5 Implementing the project with IT .................................................................................... 30

7.2.6 Dividing work into major modules................................................................................... 31

7.2.7 Testing major modules.................................................................................................... 31

7.2.8 Implementing project in small scale and testing, then scaling it to whole AP ............ 31

7.2.9 Providing online and infrastructure support................................................................... 31

7.2.10 Building new models and updating new models........................................................... 31

8 Kiosks at Mandals/ Government Offices .............................................. 31

8.1 Advantages .......................................................................................................................... 32


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1 Introduction

Government of Andhra Pradesh and government of India are significantly changing the delivery

of education to achieve Universalization of elementary education (UEE) in the age group 6-14years through Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) through various programs such as inclusive

education, distance education, etc. in the present day world, the government should leverage

the revolution of information economy to further the ideals of SSA.

The internet has opened a vast world of information and data and much of the high quality of

information comes at cost affordable to a few privileged sections of the society. Making high

quality of information available to the masses has been the responsibility of the Government

and has been predominantly achieved through public libraries or libraries in schools, colleges

and the university. These intermediaries are basically what the Government leverages to

achieve its social objectives of the ensuring the lesser privileged citizens are able to compete

with the more privileged in a broader social context. As the information economy permeates intothe fabric of the society the divide is only expected to grow.

In its quest to maintain such a fine balance, there exists a significant incentive for the

Government to leverage the information economy to successfully meet its social objectives. The

information economy can be defined as an economy where information, knowledge and

education are core drivers for business and social activity. Its an economy where rapid

development and diffusion of OCT-based innovation is transforming all sectors and all aspects

of society. The primary areas in the education system are:

Reach of education: the government spends millions on expensive textbooks year on year, and

subsidizes their cost to the students. The financial implications of purchasing textbooks year onyear restricts the state from expanding or reaching out far and wide to include many more into

the education number of students entering the education stream year on year compounded by

the geographical spread of this student population.

Policy administration: the costs are equally high in maintaining Government records and

dissemination of policy information year on year to the various schools, colleges and

universities. In the concept of school community in sarva shiksha abhiyan, it is vital for the

government to communicate and engage with these stakeholders in a simple and easy manner

to achieve its objectives through easy and prompt information access.

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan has improved the reach of education to children in the age group 6-14years, but it is possible to do more bridging the gap significantly and cost-effectively through the

information initiatives as proposed below.

To aid the Government in achieving the objectives of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, CMC

recommends the formation of a Digital Asset Management System which caters to digitizing of

text books, digitizing of student records, creating and distributing quality animated contents etc

to school children according to their age group. This includes acquisition of digital collections,


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electronic publishing, digitizing of textbooks, providing access to digital collections, and

facilitating the integration of digital resources into core teaching and learning.

Simplified and speedy administration: CMC will be a bridge for instant information access from

the Education Departments of the Government to all educational institutions, the citizens of the

state as well as the school communities of SSA by providing access to digitized records and

policy documents in the core Government services in Education.

1.1 About TATA Group and CMC

CMC is a leading global System Engineering and Integration company with offices in major

cities worldwide to service markets in USA, UK and Europe, MEA, and APAC regions. CMCs

aims are to improve the quality of life of citizens in the countries it operates in, by contributing to

the core sectors of the economy in the countries in which we work. The services provided by our

highly skilled and experienced staff add value to our customers business and are highly

appreciated. CMC is a subsidiary of TATA Consultancy Services (TCS) which is Asias largest

Software Consultancy and Information Technology Services Company.

CMC and TCS are both part of the TATA Group (www.tata.com). All companies within the group

work in very close partnership creating synergy between specialized technology areas. The

group brings in vast industry experience in developing, maintaining and enhancing applications

and proven, time-tested capability for Outsourcing Services. The group companies manage

synergies of resources and expertise within the Service practices and these are leveraged to

the best advantage of customers for realizing their requirements. This is practiced with a

focused view to provide End-To-End Services and be the Single-Point of Support for the Client.

Today, the TATA group contributes significantly to the economic development of India. It is

growing at a fast pace with an increasing number of consultants, professionals and associates

based in various offices globally.

CMC, in itself, is a leading global System Engineering and Integration company that has

pioneered many innovative solutions within India and abroad since its very inception in 1975.

CMC is also a key player in the IT consulting space and offers strategic consulting services

through technology and management consulting. We have executed a number of consulting

engagements in government, public and private sectors worldwide. CMC consultants work

collaboratively and proactively with customers to frame the best and cost-effective IT strategies

for their organizations. Our technology service offerings assist customers in defining and

recommending suitable IT and software architectures for their enterprises based on correct

technology choices and industry trends thereby successful implementations. CMC is also a

system integrator and project and product implementer of repute and has an established recordof successful project delivery to government, public and private organizations worldwide. It has

handled various large turnkey projects and product implementations worldwide on a vast variety

of real time, online, process control, transaction processing, image processing, data

communication, networking and parallel architecture based systems.

It offers a multifaceted range of services and solutions to premier organizations in both the

government and private sectors globally. An indicative range is presented below:


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Consulting

Information systems effectiveness analysis

ITIL and Infrastructure Consulting

Security Consulting

Software Package Evaluation/Selections Systems Hardware and Networks Capacity Analysis

ERP Evaluation

Implementation Evaluation and Audits

CMC offers a range of System Integration, IT enabled Services, Infrastructure Management and

Education & Training related services. Turnkey and other kinds of projects may typically utilize a

combination of the following services on a single project through their lifecycles. CMC focuses

on high quality software support and delivery both onsite and from offshore locations.

Our technology service offerings assist Customers in defining fundamental software

architectures for their enterprises by making correct technology choices based on industrytrends. Important architectural services include strategic planning and program definition and

management, reengineering of legacy systems, componentization and integration. CMC

consultants work proactively with our Customers to frame the best and cost effective IT

strategies, recommending IT architectures and ensuring successful implementations. CMC also

focuses on high quality software support and delivery. CMCs IT solution offerings include:

Software design, development, implementation and support

Product customization, development and implementation

Application stabilization, testing, monitoring and tuning

Software, systems and database maintenance

Turnkey program and project management

Enterprise Systems, , Equipment and Enterprise-wide / Legacy Application integration

COTS and third party system/package assimilations

Legacy systems and database migrations

Server migrations and porting

Disaster recovery solutions and maintenance of the same (hardware, network, OSs,layered software and tools, applications and databases

Technology upgradation

Customized software development

Business Intelligence, EIS, Data Warehousing and Data Silo based applications

We are driven by a quality focus in our operations and delivery. Our Delivery Centers are ISO

9001 and CMMi Level 5 certified and CMC has embraced the ITIL-based Service Delivery

Model across the enterprise. CMC has also adopted the Tata Business Excellence Model

(TBEM) framework which has been adapted from the renowned US based Malcolm-Baldrige


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archetype. The core value of the TBEM Framework is continuous improvement and business

excellence at all levels of the organization to bring the highest value to our customers.

1.2 CMCs Strategic Business Units

Integrated with this horizontal expertise is the vertical expertise in a whole range of Industries. Inorder to focus on the various Strategic Business Areas, CMC has organized itself into four

Strategic Business Units (SBUs) as indicated below:

Infrastructure Solutions & Integration Services

Software Solutions & Integration Services

Embedded & Real Time Solutions & Engineering Services

Digitization & Workflow Solutions & Integration Services

Education & Training Solutions & Services

1.3 Industry PracticesCMC has an in-depth understanding and significant insights into the working of various

industries, which we have consolidated into a leverageable knowledge base. Our domain

expertise in these ' verticals' enables us to provide innovative, customized and flexible

technology solutions that address the entire range of an industry's business needs. Our

business knowledge is complemented by a wide spectrum of information technology skills. Our

technological proficiency and service skills in these 'horizontals' enables us to create IT

solutions, services and products across focused verticals.

Together, they constitute our 'capability framework', which enables us to devise the most

technologically advanced and cost-effective solutions in every business and technology domain


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The vertical arrows represent our verticals or domains; industries in which we have developed

close customer involvement through a number of turnkey projects.

1.4 CMC in Education & Training Services

In a rapidly developing world, in any field the key factor is Education & Training especially usingdevelopment in IT. For effective utilization of computers by professionals and the end userEducation and Training becomes a must. CMC took the lead in this field way back in 1978,when the first CMC training program was held. CMC was in fact, one of the first companies inInformation Technology to offer such a program. Since then, CMC has been conducting trainingprograms on a regular basis for a wide range of participants. On recognizing the role ofEducation and Training within CMC as a key growth area, the Education and Training SBU(Strategic Business Unit) was created in October 1993.

CMCs education and training SBU draws on the core strengths of the company and its strategic

partner TCS to offer wide range of Education and Training services both in India and abroad.

1.5 Objectives

CMC's Education and Training services are designed to:

Meet the urgent need for trained IT personnel in the country and abroad.

Create awareness and understanding of computers and their applications amongstusers.


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Update the technological background of technical and managerial staff so that they cankeep abreast of developments.

Promote the indigenous development of advanced and meaningful application software.

To produce training aids and standardized courseware of high quality and assistorganizations in professional development activities.

To promote Internet based Training.

While CMC began with IT related training, it has extrapolated its training knowledge andcapability to design and develop training programs and content for non-IT domains. Thisincludes Soft Skills, Quality, Project Management, Product and Process Management. As a partof its people orientation and community service orientation, it is has entered the field ofproviding technical support to organisations working towards social and professional upliftment,to create and deploy training on a wide platform. The OPDV project falls under this category.

1.6 Product Portfolio

CMC offers the following types of courses:

Computer Literacy / Productivity Tools

These include courses on general topics, computer languages and computer oriented systemsand techniques. These courses are designed for people who have no or limited background incomputers. Typical courses are Computer Awareness Programs, Introduction to Windows, MS-Office etc.

Professional Development Courses

These in-depth courses cover advanced or new topics in computers and computing, and areuseful for practicing computer professionals and experienced users. These include high-endtopics like:

Embedded Systems. Information Security and Business Continuity Planning. Data warehousing. CMM. Database administration etc.

Specialized / Sectoral Courses

These courses relate to specialized application areas, which are becoming increasingly popular.The courses are designed for participants working in the corresponding specializedareas/sectors intending to use computers for improved operation and management.

Customer Request Courses

On receiving requests from organisations, CMC conducts seminars and courses speciallydesigned to suit individual organizational needs. These are planned in consultation with theorganisations concerned after studying their need and the background of participants.


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Vendor Certified Courses

CMC Limited also offers Vendor Certified Courses from some of the major Hardware andSoftware organisations in the world. These include names such as Oracle and IBM. Theseprograms enable participants to take the Certification Examinations of these organisations.

Career Development Courses

CMC has many career development courses in IT for students pursuing their Graduation orthose who have just completed their Graduation. These include courses in SoftwareDevelopment and IT Infrastructure Management.

Education is a continuing process at CMC Limited. The Education and Training Programs areevaluated and assessed each year. New programs are added and old ones are deleted. Coursecontents are expanded, revised and altered. The aim is to keep the programs both dynamicand flexible, so that the programs reflect the latest changes in technology and applications, andare responsive to the needs of students as well as the industry. Standardized courseware is

provided at all locations.

1.7 Centre for Education Technology

To keep pace with changing Software and Hardware scenario, it is necessary to emphasize onthe current IT trends and develop quality programs to impart training and education in thecontemporary topics. With the advent of newer technologies the process of imparting thetraining to a wide range of people has itself gone through revolutionary changes. Quantum

jumps are taking place in the field of Education Technology.Newer, better and more effective methods of imparting education are coming up. Traditional

methods of teaching using books, classroom lectures and written exams on pen and paper to

evaluate the knowledge gained are not deemed enough anymore. Using modern technologies

like multimedia, online training and testing etc., the emphasis has shifted to computer based

training which uses text, audio, visuals and animation in interactive as well as self paced mode.

Customer satisfaction levels have seen marked improvement with the use of these modern

methods of education technology. The paradigm is shifting from instructor based learning to net-

based learning, which will enable aspirants to access services over the net in a cost effective

manner. Connection to remote places has also become easier with the introduction of a number

of satellites including that of low earth orbit satellites.

Keeping these factors in mind, CMC has set up a full-fledged Centre for Education Technology.

The Centre for Education Technology will engage in focused activities to enhance the quality,effectiveness, productivity and reach of Education & Training activities of CMC by employing

appropriate state of the art IT and Education Technology tools. CET is engaged in:

Course Design.

Developing learning aids - Books, Workbooks, Case Studies.

Developing teaching aids - Faculty Guides, Presentations.

Developing e-Learning Contents.

Developing Web Based Training Programs.


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1.8 CET Product Background

CET has competency and skills required to prepare all the above mentioned outputs. CETregularly offers the following training solutions to its clients:

Printed Contents

Training Materials: Our printed training manuals play a vital role in any formal instructor

led training program. The training manuals ensure that all training information on skills,

processes, and other information necessary to better perform is together in one place.

They generally contain process details, case studies, step-by-step guide for software

application, illustrative graphics, charts etc.

User Manuals: As the name implies, User Manuals are written to help people understand

a software application or IT system or any electronic products.

Information Brochure: It is a small booklet or pamphlet, often containing promotional

material or product information in a nutshell for sale or service available.

e-Learning Content

Today major corporate provide self-paced learning packages like CBT/WBT rather than class

room based training for two reasons to reduce training cost and non-availability of quality

trainers. Another benefit is the flexibility of time of learning in the sense the learners can study

at their convenience without disrupting their daily work schedule.


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CBT: CBT or Computer Training, is the most exciting and innovative way of self-paced

learning in which the students learn by running digital program modules on a computer.

CBT is especially effective for imparting training on any particular software applications

where we show the software simulations through which they can have a hands-on

experience of the software application. CBT allows to demonstrate in various scientificand medical procedures, phenomenon etc which would be difficult to experience in real

environment. In a CBT we use various media elements like - animation, simulation,

voice-over, graphics etc. to help learning without the need of a physically present

instructor. Easy navigational pattern helps the learner move easily through the various

sections in the CBT. The CBT can also has other vital features like Play/Pause, Sound

On/Off etc. which allows the learner to control the learning input, thereby making it more

attractive.

WBT: Web based Training is a web version of a CBT, which can be accessed from

anywhere through internet when it is uploaded in a web-server.

e-Book: An e-Book is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. Such

documents are either read on personal computers or on dedicated hardware devices

e.g. e-book readers, ipads etc. An e-Book has several advantages like easy navigation

system through the topics, content search facility, cross-referencing of content,

dictionary, glossary etc.

1.9 Compliance

To be accessible and operable on various systems CET prepares the output as required by theclient. In addition CET has expertise and skills to deliver PPTs, Webpages, CBTs and WBTssuch that they are SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004 Compliant (if required) to facilitate upload onmost LMS or allow tracking independently in the portal.


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2 Challenges envisaged at present

Quick access to data about the student enrolment, performance, school performance,

dropouts, overall performance of each Mandal etc

Schools are at remote locations and to impart knowledge to these rural/ remote locations

Information on performance of each school, teacher, student etc

Overall web based portal for ease of content access at various levels Extending to e-

Governance

3 Offering from CMC1. Data capture of students, schools, teachers etc Using OCR (Optical Character

Recognition) & OMR (Optical Mark Reading) technologies Creation of Digital Asset

2. Content Creation Creation Animation & tie-up with content right owners for various

categories and standards

3. Web Portal Content dissemination Student specific, Teacher Specific, School

specific, Mandal Based, Government specific information

4. Gyan Kendras (Digital Class rooms) Schools for imparting lectures Visual impact

Higher retention Fun Learning


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5. Kiosks at Mandal and Government Offices Touch Access to information about schools,

student performance etc.,

The overall system architecture for the above offerings is indicated below. The core system

would be a Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) which would intake digitized

documents, texts, multimedia contents etc. The content so gathered would be indexed and

appropriate taxonomy defined before delivery.

There would be three primary distribution platforms which would use the web services of the

DAM system.

1. Web Portal

2. Gyan Kendras

3. & Kiosks


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4 Digital Asset Management System

Creation of a Centralized Digital Library would be the primary focus, thereby providing instant

access to the library of digital textbooks, references, journals. The large amounts of documentsare beyond the control of librarians. This facilitates the teachers and students to get access for

the all text books and reference books without any difficulty.

4.1 Advantages of this digital library

Every student can accesses every book when he needed, without spending huge

amount to buy hard copies.

Even GOVT can encourage students to use the digital library & have considerable cost

reduction in producing hard copies of books.

Even faculty can use this facility to prepare notes or lectures for classes.

Lot of paper is saved and more trees will be saved for environment.

Hard copies are very easy to destroy and need to be re-printed so many times even forlibraries , unlike digital libraries which once stored stays for life time

Loss and tampering of data in books can be reduced.

With one copy of book hole student community can read at same time.

4.2 Implementation of this module

Content:

Appropriate content would be created or rights acquired, for inclusion in the digital library

which would benefit end users students and staff of the schools. The content would give

better understanding and experimental knowledge to the students. Adequate measures

would be taken to maintain high Quality contents at all levels.

GOVT can provide the complete content and the same can be digitized, indexed

and taken to the data base: In this case GOVT takes care of the content and they will

deal with all legal and copy right issues of the content, that would be updated into data

base.

GOVT can prepare contents by themselves with their panel of experts

GOVT can acquire the data sources without compromising their copyright

ownership.

We repurpose the content with supervis ion of GOVT Officials

Creation of Content by CMC

Detailed survey would be done to identify what contents are to be prepared, how

well they are to be presented, what sort of animation effects would be added etc


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Market search would be made for resources available, the content quality would be

thoroughly verified and certified in coordination with GOVT officials, before inclusion

in to the database

Additional efforts would be taken to create contents based on the above

parameters. We would be hiring panel of experts for different standards for creatingthe contents

Typical categories in the Library:

Class text books

Reference books

Daily newspapers, weekly magazine

Relevant J ournals / Story books

General knowledge books

Books related Indian culture and history

Question banks, puzzles Previous question papers for reference with solutions

Teaching materials

Policy documents

Wikipedia books, encyclopaedia books

Competitive exam books and solution manuals

Information about all competitive exams like NDA, RRB.

2.2.2) Scanning, digitizing and storing the document

Since scanning plays an important role, high care would be taken while digitizing so as to

not lose any data. At the same time we would be using high speed scanners to reduce the

turnaround time considerably.

A full blown document management system would be built and integrated with the library

and access related deliveries. This would have well drilled down meta data structure for

easy search and access. Some of the mandatory meta data fields are indicated below:

Book title

Author name

Subject

Publishers name

Text book/reference book

Class of the book

Key words

Date of Purchase / Date of digitization

Size of the file

Format of the file


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No of pages

Unique reference code for book

A flexible meta data ingest platform would be created for inclusion. Edition & deletion of

meta data fields for the authenticated users

2.2.3) Creating User interface for bo th administ rators and end users

Administrators: Admin or Super Admin controls would be given to officials for creation

of roles to various people. Based on their respective roles, each person accessing the

system would be monitored for their activities.

Functionalities of document Administrators:

Uploading documents (scanning and digitising).

Creating metadata for the document.

Tagging, indexing and updating key words of the document for easy accesses. Taxonomy definition for storage

Deleting the document from database if needed.

Organising all documents in easy readable and accessible pattern.

Generating reports on updates to data base on daily basis.

Functionalities of user Administrators:

Identifying the right uses of the data base.

Giving access to users, to the data base.

Creating and editing a group/community of users.

Adding or deleting of an user to a group/community

Assigning permissions to the group.

Users: The main users of the digital library are school students and Teachers.

Students can log in with their usernames and passwords and they can access the

data.

Students: Suitable access would be provided to students depending on their

educational qualification. For each student we will give access to standard set of

data and documents depending on their standards.

Search interface for students: We create search interface for students. It

should be user friendly, since all our students are below 10 class they will not

have much knowledge about computers and search engines.

1) Search facility would be available in local languages.

2) We would give suitable interface to students so that they can enter the words

in local languages for their search.


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3) Display of documents in easy readable format & search results would be

displayed in such manner that he should be able to find the relevant

document with ease

For school faculty/Teachers:Teachers would be provided access as per theirrequest and with more versatile lesson plan, conceptual insights, assessment

tools etc

5 Multimedia Content Aggregation & Creation (Video lectures,

animations and audio visuals)

Another source to the digital asset management system would be multi media contents

5.1 Video lectures

Providing video lectures which is self explanatory or aided by an experts. These lectures would

be created with experts, suitably shot and edited before inclusion in to the library. Such videos

again would be indexed and suitably encrypted and watermarked for security and right

protection

5.1.1 Advantages of video lectures

Students can see these lectures at any time for recap and retention.

We can make specific experts lecture available for all students.

Using these videos student self-learning skills can be improved.

Govt. School can use these video lectures as virtual teachers

5.1.2 Implementation of this project

Video Content

Video lectures can be prepared using experts in specific subjects. We can either use the

GOVT teachers or other experts to aggregate lectures on various topics and standards.

Care would be taken to use high quality cameras and audio system to have the best quality

of multimedia contents.

Availabil ity of these videos to s tudents:

Video lectures would be indexed, archived and stored in servers within the schools

for ease of access by the teaches when needed as per the class taught

Such videos would be made available at various locations like library, digital class

room etc, for on demand access by students


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Download options would also be provided with appropriate rights management

system for students to have the contents at their place of interest

ADD on fac il ity: Parents would be informed about the availability of such expert lectures for

their wards benefit. Video would be extended to such demands from parents for streaming of

the videos from central location

5.2 Animations and audio visuals

Creative animations and audio visuals would be built and integrated to improve understanding

for the students. Many experimental concepts would be animated in simple manner for better

understand and retention

5.2.1 Advantages

Animations are very useful for students; screening these animations will make students

Learn quickly

Motivate interest in the students to learn more by way of fun

Easy way of understanding complicated things

Improve their imagination and thinking power about the concepts.

These can be used by teachers for teaching students in better and different class

environment

Improves the experimental skills and thinking ability

Makes students to remember the things for long time.

Changes the class environment to lab environment and makes the students to learn

things in both theoretical & experimental means

5.2.2 Implementation of this module

Making content

Groupof advisors would be formed from providing expert advice in concept presentation and

check the quality of such contents They will supervise the whole content making process and

they will take help of multimedia people in converting their concepts as animation and audio

visuals.

The group advisors,

People who have good teaching experience have great imagination skills

Students form good universities (from both technical and not technical) with better ides

to develop these concepts.


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Advisors from GOVT

Market exports who are already engaged in this work

Setting up digital class rooms in all schools.

We would build a digital class room, with a computer, a projector, digital screen or screen, toscreen these animations and audio visuals. This class room should be dedicated for this and,

one facilitators would be nominated exclusively, to maintain and to give assistance in screening

these for subject teachers.

6 Setting up digi tal knowledge centre (Gyan Kendras)

One of the distribution channels for the digital assets is by setting up digital knowledge centresin all the schools. The content would be made available through archived contents, digital book,

multimedia contents etc on the digital class rooms.

Since such centres impart knowledge they gain the name and would have state of the art

facilities and ease of usage. Digital knowledge centres would be built in secondary schools, so

that students can get access to all facilities.

Digital library

Video lectures

Animations

Audio visuals

Access to public documents

Exams and previous question papers

Information about everything

An advantage of this facility is, the rural and govt students can use this facility to access all

above facilities.


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7 Online portal for education departmentAn exhaustive online web portal would be created to facilitate various stake holders in the

system like GOVT, education department at Mandal level, School authorities, teachers &

students. This will provide instant access to information at all levels and make easy reporting of

remote elements and their performance

7.1 Advantages of online portal:

Smooth administration.

All administration functionalities would be made as respective modules for easy flow.

Training would be provided for usage of such web portals so that the portals are used to it

fullest efficiency

Education department needs to give the requirement of the functionalities or we can make

survey with education department and we can define many functionalities according theirwork and we can implement them using It and we can make sure that administration runs

very smoothly.

Most of the administration work can be done using this portal.

Information wi ll be passed very smoothly and effectively from top tobottom, bottom to top.


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We would build a process flow system/ mail system and we can make sure that information

is passed through the system very fast and smoothly. Every administrator and every

teacher, top level management will be provided with profiles, and authentication for them.

Using this they can operate the accounts. Different people will have different functionality

and accessibility of data.

They can send mails to pass the information, and records of conversation will be

maintained so that disputes will not rise in later stages.

We can arrange video conference in our web site. Where if a higher authority would like to

interact with the school teacher or head master they can use this facility to interact without

moving physically and lot of time will be saved and delays will be reduced. even they can

organize tale conferences through this and they can interact with this.

Student and faculty record maintenance.

Student record maintenance: This is very vital tool for the GOVT to track the student

whenever they want. They can obtain valuable statistics instantly and very regularly for

making important decisions.

We can assign a unique identification number to student when he joins in first class. That

number will be maintained till he completes his schooling

The GOVT can use that identification number and they can see the data of the students at

any stage in future

Process: When student joins in first class in any school he needs fill one OMR based data

form that will have complete details of this student.

Name of the student

Date of birth ( supported by document, it cannot be changed in later stages.)

Name of the father ( cant be changed in later stages)

Fathers occupation

Name of the mother( cant be changed in later stages)

Mothers occupation

Reservation category (cant be changed later stages, we can change only withsupport document and GOVT permission)

Parents permanent address ( can be edited , not by student)

Contact information (phone numbers, mail ids)

Financial states of his parents

Language

Latest photograph (passport size photograph) of the student.


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We can add more details to this if GOVT needs more statistics about student.

One capturing the data from this OMR sheet for all students we will have basic details of

every student in our data base and we can access the same at any time.

All operation by school on student can be done with their role numbers in later stages; we

will link their class roll numbers with their unique identification number through IT, whatever

operations they do on class roll numbers they get automatically edited and saved with

unique identification number also.

Uses for the GOVT:

Any students data can be accessed at any time, where he/she studies, his/her

performance, basic information, many things whatever GOVT needs)

GOVT can get very important data using this in real time

How many students enrolled for 1 class this year?

How many students are dropped from their education, if we can know their

unique identification numbers we can track them and GOVT can give assistance

for them to continue their education.

Using these statistics GOVT can make very important decisions to improve

education department.

How many students shifted to private schools?

We have data in our data base , this can be used by GOVT through data analysts and they

can get any kind of statistics of students.

Every student will be given a personal profile account. In his account his personal data is

presented and he cannot edit that data he is only allowed to see it, if he finds something

wrong he can bring it to notice of the teachers where they can rectify it through a procedure.

In his student profile we will maintain a window to display his school activities, and his

school updates about materials, general information, whatever is related to student will be

updated.

We will list out all facility provided by GOVT through this and we give access to all these

facilities to students using his profile page.

Student will be given mail facility, Anyone can pass the information to the students through

mail id. This mail will be connected to parents mail id and phone numbers also. Whatever

operations we do on students account we will inform that to their parents through mobiles

and mails.

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Using this we can create proper communication channel between the student, parent, and

school.

Using the data filled by their parents at every year starting, we can intimate their parents

about his kids performance.

If teacher want to communicate with his students parents he can communicate through his

account. He can mail or he can send message directly to his parents.

Head master or school administration can inform the parents about general information all

activities in school.

Daily students attendance can be informed to his parents, performance of the students in

exams can be informed to parents using this. Any information about school meeting can be

informed through this.

We can provide this information their parents in local languages so that information ispassed to all parents and they can understand that properly.

All our educat ion department information can be stored in this .

Education department can store data through this web site, at any time and they can use

that data whenever they needed.

All onl ine educat ional fac il it ies can be give access through this portal

We can provide access to all facilities through this portal,

Digital library Video lectures

Animations, audio visuals

Exams and question banks

Student needs to log in into our portal and he can use all our facilities.


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Valuable student statistics can be generated. stored & viewed

We will provide a statistical tool box to import the students data and do specific operations

on them and they get back to us with best results.

We will provide an interface for every school to enter their students marks when he

completes the exam. Once the data is entered the data will be stored to all individual

account and even in school records in school community. Their marks will be sent to their

parents and a copy to his teacher account through mail ids and phone numbers.

Head master will be given complete rights to see all his students data and edit the

students data if they have proper supporting document. One person through head master

supervision can do this work.

Using the students data and tool box, we are going to generate standard set of statistical

results and these will be stored to students, faculty accounts. They can use this data to

improve the students standards and teaching techniques.

Using statistical tools and we can facilitate faculty to compare their students performance

individually with a group or individually.

Once the data is analysed and all statistical reports are generated we are going to submit

that results and data to higher authorities so that they can see and they can make some

important decisions to improve their schools performance.


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We are going to maintain faculty data also, we create a account for each faculty with their

unique identification number. In that we maintain all information related to his/her personal

details, his professional details, his experience, and his achievements. He cannot edit some

part of data, we will give option for him to maintain his profile and he can edit some part of

his data.

We can update students and faculty attendance through this portal, higher authorities will

be intimated.

Faculty can post his material, any content for his students. That will be posted to his

students page and they can see or they can access it. The faculty need to take care of legal

issues with the content which he is uploading.

School community is formed and school activates can be up dated throughthat site

We are going to form a school community, so that communication in school will be

smoother.

Head master will be linked to all students and he is the head of the community.

Each subject teacher will be connected his students and he can see all students academic

record and he can take important decisions.


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We will connect schools community with students parents so that passing information to

students parents to their mails or phone numbers will be easy.

We will design 10 or more standard templates for school communities, functionalities will besame in all templates only the outlook will be different. They can use which ever template

they needed.

We can build all required models and functionalities and will give onlinesupport for them

We can build any functionality needed for the schools and administration depending on

their need and requirement and we will provide online support for them.

Science Fair and Events update

Most of the students cannot participate in science fairs and inspire programs may be lack of

knowledge and they dont have facilities to participate. We can present all science fair and

inspire programs to students using this online portal. We can make all project reports and

we can capture all videos of programs and we can put them in portal so that students can

access and they can enhance their knowledge and their interest towards them. This will

improve their enthusiasm to participate in these programs

Online conference meetings (for administration purpose)

Using technology we can have conference calls and meetings to discuss about issues.Physical movement of people to one place will make lot of time and money for teachers and

GOVT. we can build conference call and meeting portal so that everyone can attend the

meeting from their schools with minimal waste of time and money. We can build in such a

way that it looks like a normal meeting and all facilities will be provided. Participants can

ask questions using the portal and they can replies from concerned person. But we need to

train every participant about this portal and we should make sure that participants feel

comfortable to use this facility.

Daily tips to students ( Using school community portal )We will provide tips to students on class room subjects or on general knowledge on daily

basis so that it will be continues and reduces the burden on students .this may be done

centrally or by school administration or both combine.

According to school syllabus schedule school will provide daily tips to students through

mobile phones or through their online accounts, so that even absent student can know

about what happened in school.

Some general knowledge and extra circular information tips can send from central server to

students so that students general and current affairs knowledge can be improved. More


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information about education department and activates can be informed to students and

parents using this.

Teacher training videos can be uploaded for teacher training

Lot of teacher training is happening to improve teaching techniques and teaching methods.

Govt is spending lot of money in arranging these meeting and training. Even lot of time is

invested. What we can do is we can make videos of trainings and we can put up in our web

site and we can give access to teachers to see them and to understand them. We can give

sometime time for them to ask their doubts and they can form discussion forums on every

issue. Using this feedback we can make one more session to clear doubts of all teachers.

Even we can provide online training sessions to teachers to save lot of money and time for

everyone in system.

Communities

We are going to form communities for faculty and students so that operations and

information passing will be very easy and fast. This is part of online portal.

Depending upon administration structure and subjects and functionalities of the education

system we can create some professional communities to run all our activities smoothly and

effectively.

For example:

Take one mandal:

We can form these communities.

All head masters community to communicate with head masters by higher authorities

All teachers community to communicate will teachers in that community

Science, mathematics, social, Telugu, Hindi, English teachers communities.

We can form sub community under each community

This makes people with same interests, same goals, same roles, and same functionalities

come under one tree. They can share all information needed and they can pass information

about all their activities in their community.

Discussion forums to discuss all their community issues

Knowledge sharing

Helping nature

Group working skills

Improves the efficiency of community

Some of These communities will be maintained professionally by us. Like


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Science fair communities Olympiad communities Each subject communities for students and faculty Sports communities Games communities

Extracurricular activities communities Regional communities

We can increase no of communities depending on public and Govt interest and need.

Students communities:

For each subjects we can maintain communities so that we can put up all information

related to that community and information can be seen by all students in community, all

students in the community can be connected

We will give local administrates to create local communities for their operational purpose

and they can maintain those communities by them self.

7.2 Implementation of the project

7.2.1 Survey education department

We will do a survey with education department to list out all administration functionalities.

Then we will arrive at what models need to be build and how to inter link the It models

7.2.2 List out funct ionalitiesOnce we get all survey information we can sit and write all functionalities and out lines for

them.

7.2.3 List out technologies, infrastructure and human resources neededWe can discuss about all functionalities and we can find what are the technologies and

infrastructure, human resources needed to build this portal

7.2.4 Recruiting human resources

once we arrive at above step we can recruit people, we can buy licences for required

technology. We can frame time lines for this project.

7.2.5 Implementing the project with ITwe can start implementing the project in terms of IT and we can keep tracking of all IT work

and we can meet regularly with coders and team leads to discuss about the project

progress and issues in implementing this project.


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7.2.6 Dividing work into major modulesWe can divide all work into different major modules and we can test them once they are

ready for use. We will find all problems while testing the models and we will rectify them

using technology and back end coders.

7.2.7 Testing major modulesOnce major module is completed and testing is done. We will try to connect the major

modules and we will build the whole project. Then we do testing on that project and we will

rectify all the problems.

7.2.8 Implementing pro ject in small scale and testing, then scaling it to who le APOnce it is done we will start implementing this project to one mandal first then seeing the

practical problems. We rectify those problems and we slowly implement whole project for

total Andhra Pradesh.

7.2.9 Providing online and infrastructure supportWe keep on tracking the problems and we will provide IT support for the GOVT for fixed

period of time. We will maintain the infrastructure needed for online portal.

7.2.10 Building new models and updating new modelsWe can build new models and we can incubate them into their system, but this is done

depending upon their requirement. This will be charged extra.

8 Kiosks at Mandals/ Government OfficesThese are touch screen kiosks, to be located in the Mandal Offices or Government offices which

would provide information on touch.

The information update to these kiosks would be instantaneous as they would be in a connected

environment. Web services would be extended accordingly from the web portal for information

access.


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8.1 Advantages

Information regarding the schools, teachers and students

Performance of the students

Drop out rates

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