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Open Educational Resources (OERs) in India

National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)

One of the nation's first OER programs, NPTEL was created between 1999 and 2003 as a result of the combined efforts of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). This initiative's main goal is to "improve the quality of engineering education in the nation by providing easy access to curriculum-based video and web courses" in the engineering and scientific fields. Certification programs are available for a small fee. It is recommended that students take advantage of the courses offered by the NPTEL.

e-PG Pathshala

High-caliber interactive postgraduate content in the social sciences, fine arts, humanities, mathematical sciences, linguistics, and other languages is available at e-PG Pathshala.
Over 22,000 e-texts and videos from over 5000 experts are available, along with over 30,000 quizzes covering 70 different subjects. Viewing the study materials for the purpose of independent study is encouraged for students.

Study Webs of Active-learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM)

The official MOOC platform for India was introduced in early 2017 and is called SWAYAM. Teachers and mentors at several prestigious Indian universities offer their countrymen online course resources. Currently, over 300 free online courses that are divided into scheduled and self-paced courses are available on the SWAYAM platform. Additionally, a lot of refresher courses are offered via the SWAYAM platform.

CEC (Under graduate)

The Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC), established in 1993 by the University Grants Commission (UGC) as one of its Inter-University Centers, offers educational programs (web-based and audio/visual) and related resources for a variety of subject areas. This initiative consists of four main parts: e-Knowledge Resources; VYAS and DTH Higher Education Channels; EMRC (Media Center); and e-Education.

Virtual Labs

Launched in 2012, the unique Virtual Labs initiative by NMEICT, MHRD, and the Indian government aims to "provide remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering" for students at undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels as well as the research community. A variety of learning resources are available to students, such as "web-resources, video-lectures, animated demonstrations as well as self-evaluation."

The Spoken Tutorial

The Spoken Tutorial, was launched in 2010 as an NMEICT initiative by MHRD, Government of India, for ‘Talk to a Teacher’ activity. This project is developed and maintained by IIT Bombay. It promotes the development and use of various open source software by providing more than 100 online tutorials in software development and programming through its website.

Free and Open Source Software in Education (FOSSEE)

National Mission on Education through ICT launched FOSSEE in 2009.

There are more than 80 tutorials for different software by FOSSEE available via Spoken Tutorial. The significant activities provided by this platform include textbook companion (port solved examples from standard textbooks using a free OSS), Lab Migration (from proprietary to open source), Self-Workshops, Conferences and Forums.

VIDWAN

VIDWAN is the premier database of profiles of scientists / researchers and other faculty members working at leading academic institutions and other R & D organisation involved in teaching and research in India. It provides important information about expert’s background, contact address, experience, scholarly publications, skills and accomplishments, researcher identity, etc. The database developed and maintained by Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) with financial support from the National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT). The database would be instrumental in selection of panels of experts for various committees, taskforce, established by the Ministries / Govt. establishments for monitoring and evaluation purposes.

Shodhganga

ShodhGanga is a platform developed by INFLIBNET Centre in 2014, for research scholars to assimilate their PhD theses and provide it publicly via open access. There are approx. 206719 full-text theses available on ShodhGanga from 355 contributing universities.

Quantum & Nano Computing

The Quantum-Nano Centre is a multidisciplinary centre at Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra set up under MHRD National Mission on Education through ICT, with partners as IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi and IIT Madras, besides several international collaborators. Read More

Pedagogy Project

This project is an experiment to systematically design and develop learner-centric curricula, suitable for outcome-based learning for 4 year degree programmes in six major engineering disciplines. This project is NOT, yet another attempt to develop content, although each curriculum document is expected to include around 80 pages of course notes and 120-125 self assessment problems and solutions. Read More

AICTE Online Courses

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