National Mission on Education Through Information and Communication Technology

NME-ICT

Dr.T.V.Rao MD

Professor of Microbiology

Sri Dev Raj Urs Medical College

Kolar 563 101 India

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National Mission on Education

through Information and

Communication Technology (NME-

ICT)

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Knowledge is PowerPower through Communication

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(NME-ICT)

• The Mission approved by the Government of India on the2nd January, 2009.

• NMEICT launched on 3rd February, 2009.

• It is a Centrally sponsored scheme which entails 75%contribution from the Centre and 25% fromStates/Institutions for connectivity. In the case of NER, theratio is 90:10.

• 100% contribution from Centre for content generation.

• 50% contribution from Centre for devices.

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National Mission on Education

through ICTI

• Launched by the Ministry of Human Resources

• Development (MHRD), Government of India

• Objective: to raise the levels of education in India

• Outlay: Rs. 4,600 crore over three years

• 40% for content generation

• 60% for bandwidth

• To give 1 GBPS bandwidth to each one of 500

• universities and 20,000 colleges

• Out of these, 3,000 are engineering colleges: 5% government run, rest private

• Largest and most ambitious plan

• I Likely to continue in the next plan period

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NME-ICT• Launched by the Ministry of Human Resources

Development (MHRD), Government of India.

• Objective: to raise the levels of education in India

- Aims to transform the education system,

teachers and students.

• Opportunity for all the teachers and experts to

pool their collective wisdom for the benefit of

every Indian learner and, thereby

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Better Literacy through NME-ICT

Warschauer has identified two broad categories of literacy:

• Academic Literacy - competencies related to academic work (note taking, summarizing, researching, critical reading, etc.)

• Digital Literacy

– Computer Literacy - ability to operate a computer

– Information Literacy - ability to access, understand, organize and archive digital information

– Multimedia Literacy - ability to create materials using digital resources (texts, images, audio, video)

– CMC (Computer-mediated communication literacy) - ability to communicate orally and in writing online (email, chat, instant messaging, audio/video conferencing, etc.)

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Why is literacy changing?

• Global shift from industrial economy to information economy

• Reading/writing forms = more complex » Literacy = more complex

• Digital forms of reading/writing are replacing printed forms of reading/writing

– Ex: Obsolescence of typewriter

– Ex: Ubiquitous nature of email

– Ex: Decreased importance of handwriting/increased importance of typing (voice recognition in future)

Learning and Innovation Skills:

Creativity and Innovation Skills

• Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work

• Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others

• Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives

• Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the domain in which the innovation occurs

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Information, Media & Technology Skills

•People in the 21st century live in a technology and media-suffused environment, marked by access to an abundance of information, rapid changes in technology tools, and the ability to collaborate and make individual contributions on an unprecedented scale. To be effective in the 21st century, citizens and workers must be able to exhibit a range of functional and critical thinking skills related to information, media and technology.

– Information Literacy

– Media Literacy

– ICT Literacy(Information, Communications & Technology)

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Broad Objectives• To use ICT in enhancing teaching and

learning.

• To reach hitherto deprived sections and

rural / under-developed areas.

• To help in raising the GER in higher

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OA, Open Source and OER:

Status in India

• Active player in the open source software movement, and OA movement –

• Increasing availability of OA electronic journals, OA institutional repositories and

open source software-based repositories such as DSpace and EPrints.

• scientific journals accessible as OA

• Indian Institute of Science of Bangalore, along with Carnegie Mellon University,

along with 21 Indian institutions have digitised more than 450,000 books,

220,000 of which are now web accessible

• Open Source tools in education- Brihaspati and Vmukti

• Major initiatives like NMEICT and NPTEL to develop open educational content

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Major ongoing projects under the Mission

• National Programme of Technology Enhanced

Learning (NPTEL)

• Virtual Labs

• Educational Resource Planning (ERP)

• Mobile e-Learning Terminals (MeLT)

• E-books and e-journals (N-LIST)

• Haptic devices

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Provisions - Outlay

• Outlay: ` 4,600 crore over three years

• 40% for content generation

• 60% for bandwidth

• 1 Gbps bandwidth to everyone of 30,000 colleges;

• Out of these 3,000 are engineering colleges:

• 5% government run, rest private.

• 48 point objectives (Mission Document)

• Low cost computing device for ` 1500 Rs

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Affordable and Economical Devices

to all

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Mission possible with

NME-ICT

• One of the mandate of the Mission is to generate

a data base of the human resources in different

fields/disciplines and also to predict the

availability and demand of the human resources in

different disciplines. It shall also develop certain

testing modules to test and certify the skills of the

human resources acquired through various formal

and non-formal means.

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NMEICT• Experimentation and Development of ultra low cost access devices

for wider coverage of learners & their field trials.

• Talk to a teacher to provide a substitute for coaching for the

economically poor students

• Adaptation & deployment of open source simulation packages

equivalent to MATLAB, ORCAD etc.

• Development of unified ERP system for Educational Institutions.

• Conversion of available content content in various regional

languages.

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Sakshat Modules

• Project Management System

• Scholarship Management System

• Learning Resource Repository

• E-book and e-journal portal

• Virtual Classroom

• Live webcasting and video on demand

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Sakshat: An Official Website of NME-ICT

• Provide updates on the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT)

• Keep record of meetings of the different Committees of the Mission

• Platform for project uploading, reviewing and monitoring

• Provide one stop access to all e-content developed under the Mission as well as open access and licensed e-journals and e-books

• Manage scholarships of the MHRD

• Provide virtual learning platform for the learners with built in interactivity

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Amrutha Institute empowers ICT

Modules

• “The dharma of

knowledge is to

flow to all corners

of the world and

nourish the

cultures there.”

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The objectives of the National

Mission on Education through ICT• (a) building connectivity and knowledge network

among and within institutions of higher learning in the country with a view of achieving critical mass of researchers in any given field;

• (b) spreading digital literacy for teacher empowerment;

• (c ) development of knowledge modules having the right content to take care of the aspirations of academic community and to address to the personalized needs of the learners;

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The objectives of the National Mission

on Education through ICT

• (d) standardization and quality assurance of e-

contents to make them world class;

(e) research in the field of pedagogy for

development of efficient learning modules for

disparate groups of learners;

(f ) making available of e-knowledge contents, free

of cost to Indians;

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The objectives of the National Mission on

Education through ICT

• (g) experimentation and field trial in the area of performance

• optimization of low cost access devices for use of ICT in

• education;

• (h) providing support for the creation of Virtual Technological

• University;

• (i) identification and nurturing of talent;

• (j) certification of competencies of the human resources acquired

• either through formal or non-formal means and the evolution of a

legal framework for it; and

• (k) developing and maintaining the database with the profiles of

our human resources

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2nd Quad

e-Tutorial

Content Video + Audio in an

organised form, Animation,

Simulations, Virtual Labs

3rd QuadWeb Resources

Related Links, Wikipedia Development of

Course, Open Content in Internet, Case

Studies, Anecdotal information, Historical

development of the subject, Articles

1st Quad

e-Content

PDF / e-Books / illustration , video

demonstrations / document arising &

Interactive simulations wherever

required

4th Quad

Self Assessment

MCQ, Problems, Quizzes, Assignments

& solutions, Online feedback through

discussion forums & setting up the FAQ

, General Misconceptions

Four Quadrant Approach

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National Knowledge Commission (NKC)

Recommendations

• Use of globally available Open Educational

Resources (OER) and Open Access (OA) as a means

of radically increasing the widespread availability

of high-quality educational resources

• Setting up of a National Education Foundation to

develop web based common open resources

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Open source for Developing countries• Open source reports are not only idealistic, but

make economic and commercial sense as well

• It has a potential to empower ALL India children

to collaborate and make us a developed nation

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What is one reason our students need to

Attain this new literacy?

"The need for technologically literate citizens and workers increases every year. Skilled people in the 21st century need to understand how to use technology tools. . . These tools enable people to perform effectively at work and in their daily lives. . . "Learning for the 21st Century, Partnership for 21st Century Skills,

2003, p.10-11

Content generation: Line items

• NPTEL phase II / III

• 2. PG Classes

• 3. UG Classes

• 4. Video content digitization, conversion, chunking and dubbing CEC / IGNOU / NCERT / SIET / OTHERS

• 5. Provision of e-books and e-journals free to the learners

• 6. Standardization of quality assurance of contents & certfication / automation of certification

• 7. Developing suitable pedagogical methods for various classes, intellectual calibers and research in e-learning

• 8. Development of language converter and translation tool kit

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NME-ICT will be supported by..

• Renowned institutions would anchor various

activities in their areas of excellence. The Mission

would seek to enhance the standards of

education, in Government as well as in private

colleges. Enlistment of support and cooperation of

States/Union Territories, Institutions and

individual experts would be an integral part of the

Mission.

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Requirement for funding

• Necessary conditions for a project to be funded by this

• mission:

• I It should be related to education - for research, other funding sources are available

It should be inter-institutional

• Any material developed through this mission has to be delivered as open source

It should belong to one of the 18 line items mentioned

• earlier

No funding will be provided for infrastructure development

• Funding for clear deliverables: number of courses, number of faculty members trained, number of students trained, etc.

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Visit http://spoken-

tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro

• Ten minute spoken tutorial

• Gives more details of format, where

to submit, presentation details, etc.

• NMEICT invites your proposals

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Service Providers

NME-ICT

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Administrative structure

NME-ICT• Administrative structure

Project Approval Board, chaired by the Secretary of MHRD

• I Standing committee, chaired by the Mission Director, recommends projects

• Review committees

• Mission Director

• Mr. N. K. Sinha, Joint Secretary, Distance Learning/training

• We must be one of a few countries to have such a high level position for distance education

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Programme created by Dr.T.V.Rao MD for

awareness on use and possibilities of

NME- ICT to empower the Nation

Email

doctortvrao@gmail.com

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