Distributed Education Opportunities and challenges MKCL Experience

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Distributed EducationOpportunities and
challenges MKCL Experience

• By
• Vivek Sawant
• Managing Director, MKCL

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Introduction

• MKCL is a Public Limited Company
• Established in August 2001by the Government of
  Maharashtras Department of Higher and Technical
  Education
• Business Operations commenced on July 01, 2002

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Introduction

• Registered Office in Mumbai
• Development and Operations Center in Pune
• Center for Educational eGovernance in Pune
• Centre for eGovernance in Mumbai

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Vision

• Education for Development
• To develop world class, globally competitive,
  flexible and value based education system
  responsive to the individual, institutional and
  social development needs of the people.

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Mission

• To promote Life Long Learning (L3) with
• low cost
• high quality
• fast pace and
• wider accessibility
• as it is critical for survival, development and
  empowerment of individuals, communities and
  nations in the knowledge-based society in the
  21st century.

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Goals

• To prepare the people for the knowledge-based
  economy and society
• To champion the cause of life-long learning with
  development orientation
• To stimulate the creation of world-class
  knowledge resources
• To provide universal access to them through IT

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Board of Directors

• Chairman
• Honble Shri. Dilip Walse Patil
• Minister For Higher Technical Education
• Government of Maharashtra
• Vice-Chairman
• Honble Shri. Suresh Shetty
• Minister of State for Higher Technical
  Education,
• Government of Maharashtra

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Board of Directors Members

• Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar, Chairman, ETH Research Labs
• Professor Ram Takwale, Ex-VC PU, YCMOU IGNOU
• Professor Ashok Kolaskar, Advisor, NKC
• Dr. Ms. Joyce Sankaran, Principal Secretary,
  HTE, GoM
• Dr. Rajan Welukar, Vice-Chancellor, YCMOU
• Dr. Dhananjay Yedekar, Vice-Chancellor, SRTMU
• Mr. Avinash Patil, Director, MSFC and Bank of
  Maharashtra
• Mr. Vivek Sawant, Managing Director
• Mr. O.G.Satpute, Director Finance

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Equity Profile

• Authorized Capital Rs. 10.00 Crores (Rs.100 Mn)
• Subscribed Capital Rs. 07.25 Crores (Rs.72.5 Mn)
• Shareholders
• Govt of Maharashtra Rs. 2.17 Crores, 30
• Universities Rs. 2.74 Crores, 38
• Educational Institutions Rs. 0.42 Crores, 6
• Others Rs. 1.92 Crores, 26
• Industries and organizations
• Teachers, Directors and Employees

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Dividends, Bonus and Rights

• Dividend Yield in first year of operation 15
• 11 Bonus Shares declared in second year
• Dividend Yield in second year of operation on
  post-bonus equity 15
• Dividend Yield in third year of operation 20
• 41 Bonus Shares declared in third year
• Interim Dividend in fourth year of operation 10
• Rights Allotment in fourth year of operation
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Financials

• Turnovers
• 2002-03 Rs. 20 Cr
• 2003-04 Rs. 42 Cr
• 2004-05 Rs. 50 Cr
• 2005-06 Rs. 100 Cr
• 2006-07 so far Rs. 80 Cr (Aprox)

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MKCL's Distributed Education Network

• MKCLs network resources coordinated and
  synergized on a state-wide scale include
  
• 150 Member state level Central Team for Software
  Development, Networking, Business
  Development, Operations, Management and
  Leadership
• 100 Member state-wide Distributed Teams for
  content development and software development,
  testing, quality assurance, business promotion
  and brand building

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MKCL's Distributed Education Network

• 3580 Authorized Training Centers (ATCs) with
  balanced statewide coverage in 35 districts in
• Metropolitan
• Urban
• Semi-urban
• Rural
• Tribal and Hilly areas
• MKCL Finishing Schools in 7 cities in India

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MKCL's Distributed Education Network

• 9 Regional Lead Centers (RLCs)
• 42 District Level Local Lead Centers (LLCs)
• 350 Tehsil/Block Level Lead Centers (TLCs)
• 126 District Level Voluntary Teams for
• Promotion, Academics and Vigilance
• 500 Supervised On-line Examination Centers
• Number of Partnerships with various service
  providers

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Teachers and Learners

• 10,000 Teachers, Counselors, Coordinators and
  Systems Administrators .
• 20,82,000 Registered Learners in last 48 months
• Students
• Teachers
• Professionals
• Housewives
• Senior Citizens

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MKCL's Distributed Education Network

• It is a Techno-social Interventure of several
  small commercial and social IT driven ventures.
• It is a single largest Private-Public-Community-Pa
  rtnership (PPCP) network of the small and medium
  IT entrepreneurs and enterprises in India

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MKCL's Distributed Education Network

• It is a meta-network of resources
  -infrastructural, human, intellectual and
  developmental
• It is a large-scale networked Laboratory and
  Collaboratory for testing and deploying
  innovative ICT systems and ICT enabled services

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MKCL's Distributed Education Network

• It offers various services to thousands of
  learners
• Information Services
• Collaborative Learning Services
• Administrative and Facilitation Services
• Consistent track record of mass personalized
  service delivery over last 16 quarters

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MKCL's Distributed Education Network

• 20,000 PIV Personal Computers with
• Multimedia and Internet
• windows 2003 servers
• XP clients
• Anti virus
• branded as well as open source application
  software
• content with rich voice over in English and
  Marathi

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MKCLs Distributed Classrooms

• 3500 low-cost Distributed Classrooms on a single
  portal with 2 way voice and data on ordinary
  dial-up connections
• 12 high-end broadband Distributed Classrooms
  equipped with full video-conferencing facilities

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MKCLs Distributed Education Frameworks

• 3500 LANs equipped with access to
• SOLAR Framework for Web-based coordination of
  academic service delivery
• Learning Management System (LMS)
• Assignment Management System (AMS)
• Online Evaluation System (OES)
• Content Management and Distribution Framework

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Content Design and Integration Framework

• Structure
• Design
• Collaborate
• Integrate
• Package
• Quality Assessment
• Deliver

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Content Design and Integration Framework
Structuring
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Content Design and Integration Framework
Online Collaboration
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Content Design and Integration Framework
Integration
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Content Design and Integration Framework
Quality Assurance
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Content Design and Integration Framework
Packaging
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LMS

• Personalized content
• More of perform than mere inform
• Performance monitoring
• Evaluation
• Self-paced learning
• Collaboration opportunities

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Individual Access to Content
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Personalized Table of Contents
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Tools for Enhanced Learning
Easy Navigation
Multimedia content
Narration Text window
Special Features for Left Handers
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Evaluation
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My Notes
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Bookmarks
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Searches
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Learning Record
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Distributed Education Frameworks used for
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Distributed Education Frameworks used for..
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Distributed Education Frameworks used for..
IT for Teachers
Advanced Certificate course in Financial
Accounting
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Distributed Education Frameworks used for
Advanced Certificate course in BPO
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Distributed Education Frameworks used for
Advanced Certificate course in DTP
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Online Evaluation Framework

• Objective type testing
• Assignment Management System

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Test Administration
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Paper setting
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Learner Administration
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Assignment Management
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Work distribution
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Evaluators inbox
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Faculty inbox
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Learners inbox
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MKCLs Video Conferencing Facility
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Opportunities for Distributed Education

• Large population of learners
• Demanding education leading to employability
• Having low purchasing power
• Suffering from paucity of traditional educational
  resources
• Geographically widely dispersed
• Having poor access to quality education

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Opportunities for Distributed Education

• Life-long learning is becoming critical for
  survival, development and empowerment of
  individuals, communities and nations
• Agrarian communities are aspiring to leapfrog
  into knowledge society

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Opportunities for Distributed Education

• Vocational and professional education is becoming
  viable in distributed mode
• Frequent up-skilling and re-skilling of workforce
  is desirable at workplaces and therefore,
  feasible only under distributed mode

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Opportunities for Distributed Education

• ICT enabled educational tools and content are
  becoming available, affordable, accessible and
  acceptable
• ICT tools are facilitating borderless
  collaborative learning through seamless
  networking of resources

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Challenges for Distributed Education

• Lack of leadership
• Lack of coherent national policy framework
• Lack of governmental backing and credibility
• Decision makers not fully aware of the
  transformative potential

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Challenges for Distributed Education

• Mainstream is still under centralist and brick
  and mortar mindset
• Dominance of teacher centrism or content centrism
• Examination system focused on memorized
  information and not on exploration and innovation

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Challenges for Distributed Education

• Open educational resources (OERs) yet to attain a
  critical mass or become a mass movement
• Philosophical, psychological and sociological
  foundations of new paradigm and pedagogy of
  distributed education yet to attain maturity
• Quality Assurance frameworks yet to evolve

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Challenges for Distributed Education

• Ecosystem for large-scale private-public-community
  partnerships (PPCP) is still weak
• Sound business models yet to evolve

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• Thank you
• Your feedback and comments are welcome at
• md_at_mkcl.org