NATIONAL CONVENTION ON DIGITAL INITIATIVES
FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
8th, 9th and 10th July, 2017
Vigyan Bhavan New Delhi
On the auspicious day of Guru Poornima (9th July 2017), the Ministry of Human Resource Development will organize an innovation and best practices conference on digital initiatives in Higher Education. All Vice-chancellors of Central Universities, Deemed-to-be Universities, Private Universities, State Universities, State Private Universities, Directors of Central Institutes such as IITs, IIMs, IISERs, IISc, IIITs, NITs and other central institutes are expected to participate in the conference to be held in Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.
These initiatives would be launched/dedicated to the Nation during the Convention.
- SWAYAM – One-stop web location for interactive e-content for all courses from School to University level.
- SWAYAM-Prabha – the (32) Direct-to-Home channels for transmitting high quality educational content on 24X7 basis direct to every home, without any charge.
- The National Digital Library – with more than 72 lakh digital books
- The National Academic Depository – for authenticating all the certificates issued by institutions
- e-Shodh Sindhu: More than 15,000 international electronic journals and e-books are made available to all the higher educational institutions
- e-Yantra:
- Virtual Labs:
- Talk to a Teacher : It uses A-View collaboration tool developed by Amrita University for providing virtual classrooms to the faculty across the country.
- e-Acharya: also called ‘Integrated e-Content Portal’ of NMEICT
- E-Kalpa: Another MHRD/ NMEICT initiative named “e-Kalpa” creating Digital-Learning Environment for Design in India
- FOSSEE : The Free and Open Source Software for Education (FOSSEE)
- e-Vidwan: (INFLIBNET) Centre took the initiative called “Vidwan: Expert Database and National Researcher’s Network” with the financial support from NMEICT.
- Baadal: The MHRD under NMEICT has awarded a project to IIT Delhi, to set up a robust 24X7 backed Data Centre.
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