Proliferation of ICT in Education

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Proliferation of ICT in Education Major Govt.
Initiatives - Challenges
Dr. B. K. Murthy Director Head National
Knowledge Network Division Ministry of
Communications and IT Govt. of India Presentation
at Nagpur, 11th June, 2011
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Key Factors of Knowledge Economy
Govt. role is to act as a catalyst
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Challenges Digital Students

• By age 21, the average college student would have
  spent
• 10,000 hours video games
• 200,000 emails
• 20,000 hours TV
• 10,000 hours cell phone
• 10,000 hours of PC/Internet usage
• Under 5,000 hours reading

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Challenges for Technology

• Countrywide classrooms? Various Tools
  Technologies
• Sharing of Educational resources on the
  Grid/Cloud
• Various Gadgets
• High end Workstations to low cost access devices
• Content for all
• Multimodal, Multilingual, locale specific,
  Just-in-time
• Creation of Closed User Groups
• Online Collaborative Research
• Open Source Drug Discovery/Design/Engg.
• Network protocols to support various gadgets
• Knowledge Centers to Host various portals
• Network Security/QoS to cater to all types of
  traffic
• emails/chatting/lectures/telemedicine/VC/e-Gov.
  etc. on the same Backbone??

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Challenges Social

• The challenge of numbers/Scalability
• The challenge of Quality
• The challenge of access/Reliability
• The Challenge of Sustainability/affordability
• The Challenge of Inclusiveness
• The challenge of course management
• Guiding a student through a curriculum
• Tapping the right content from the right source
• But the most important of all..
• The challenge of the mind-set !!!

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ICT in Education Role of MCIT/DIT

• Initiate Pilots in frontier areas before the
  formal system responds
• Courses on Microprocessor in late 70s
• UG/PG Courses in ICT in early 80s
• Establishment of ERNET, CDAC, DOEACC in late 80s
• Language Computing/Learning Material Development
  in Emerging Technologies in early 90s
• E-learning activities Courseware for MS (BITS
  Pilani), ADIT of IGNOU etc. in late 90s
• Currently UG/PG Courses on VLSI Design/Embedded
  Systems Design/Information Security
• Technology Innovation Promotion
• Being initiated and nurtured till the formal
  system takes over
• and now establishment of National Knowledge
  Network

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ICT in Education Major Govt. Initiatives

• Department of IT, Ministry of Comm. IT
• Establishment of National Knowledge Network
• National Skill Development Initiative
• Ministry of HRD
• National Programme on Technology Enhanced
  Learning (NPTEL)
• About 400 courses (40 hours each) in Engineering
  Technology developed by faculties of IITs/IISc
  and available for free Usage by Tier II and Tier
  III colleges
• National Mission on Education Through ICT
• ICT_at_Schools

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National Knowledge Network
Objective

• To interconnect all Institutions of higher
  learning and Research for knowledge sharing and
  collaborative Research across the country with a
  high speed data communication network.

Design Philosophy

• To build a scalable network, which can expand
  both in the geographical coverage and Speed.
• To be a common Network Backbone like national
  highway, wherein different categories of users
  shall be supported.

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Features of the NKN

• Network consists of an ultra-high speed Core
  10Gbps 1500 nodes.
• A distribution layer at appropriate speeds.
• The participating institutions can directly
  connect to the NKN at speeds between 100Mbps to 1
  Gbps
• connect to the distribution layer through a last
  mile connectivity bandwidth (Edge nodes).

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Educational Institutions
Cert-IN
Research Labs CSIR/DAE/ISRO/ICAR
NKN
EDUSAT
National Internet Exchange Points (NIXI)
MPLS Clouds
INTERNET
Broad Band Clouds
Connections to Global Networks (e.g. GEANT)
National / State Data Centers
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• To create CORE for NKN Final Phase at the
  earliest.
• Backbone 2.5G to begin with soon 10G
• This provides the required redundancy and
  availability of NKN CORE.
• Gateways at Mumbai Chennai apart from Delhi
  Hyderabad
• Complete rollout in 2-3 yrs
• Implementation by NIC

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Current Status

• 20 PoPs were set up across the country
• 200 Institutions of Higher Learning were
  connected
• Virtual Class Rooms in 26 IITs, ISERs
• Inaugurated by the Honble President of India on
  April 9, 2009
• Final Phase 20-25 PoPs, 600 secondary PoPs,
  1500 core institutions (400 universities, RD
  labs) to be connected
• Traffic from the affiliated colleges/centers/insti
  tutions are aggregated through MPLS-VPN to
  connect to NKN

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National Mission on Education through ICT

• Vision
• Catering to the learning needs and providing a
  one stop solution to all the requirements of the
  learning community.
• Objectives
• Development of knowledge modules the right
  content
• Research in the field of pedagogy
• Standardization and quality assurance of content
• Spreading digital literacy for teacher
  empowerment
• Providing support for the creation of virtual
  technological universities

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Connectivity at Institution Level

• 20,000 Colleges, each with 20 BB VPN connections
  
• High Speed LANs in Universities each having 400
  nodes
• Connectivity 1Gbps to universities
• NMEICT-NKN Interconnection, 1GB each about 10-15
  Locations
• Internet connectivity to BSNL VPN cloud.

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NMEICT Connecting Universities
NKN CLOUD



UNIV1
UNIV 2
UNIV 3
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Universities merging with NKN
NKN CLOUD



UNIV1
UNIV 2
UNIV 3
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Universities Aggregating Affiliated Colleges

Aggregate Traffic to NKN
NKN CLOUD



MPLS CLOUDc
Colleges
UNIV1
UNIV 2
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ICT _at_ Schools

• Scheme of MHRD launched in 2004 and now Revised
  in 2010
• Coverage All Govt./Govt. aided Higher
  Secondary/Secondary schools
• Target is to cover about 100,000 schools by 2012
• Objectives
• Establish enabling environment to promote usage
  of ICT in an inclusive manner
• Providing infrastructure connectivity
• Promote development and dissemination of
  e-content in regional language
• To promote ICT tools for distance education

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National Skill Development Initiative

• Government of India has approved the Coordinated
  Action of Skill Development
• Three tier structure set up
• Prime Ministers National Council on Skill
  Development
• National Skill Development Coordination Board
• National Skill Development Corporation
• National Skill Development Policy announced
• To create a pool of 500 million trained persons
  by the year 2022.
• DITs Target in NSDI is 10 million in ICT by 2022
• 500 million IT literates by 2022

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DITs Initiatives for Skill Development in IECT

• Through a 3 pronged strategy
• Scaling up of capacities of DOEACC Society to
  train 1 crore persons by 2022.
• - To cover the entire spectrum of Training
  Education starting from certificate level to
  Doctoral level (both Formal as well Non-Formal)
• Scaling up of capacities of CDAC to train 7
  lakh persons by 2022.
• - High end courses, close to Industry needs,
  quick cycle time for introduction of New Courses
  to meet emerging needs
• Financial Assistance to States/UTs for setting up
  of ICT Academies in each State/UTs
• - To ensure quality faculty who are current
  with the latest development in IECT sector

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ICT infrastructure Connecting Global
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Multi Modal Delivery gives Rainbow effect
Localized
Reachable
Increased Quality
Reliable/Affordable
Motivation Retention
Secured
Just in Time
Integrated Learning
Output
Blended Learning
Ubiquitous Learning
Delivery
Compliances Conformance
Multi Modal/Multi Lingual Delivery
Multi Modal Content
Instructors
CBT/WBT
Authors/Experts
Class Room Teaching
Mobile Learning
Virtual Class Rooms
Administrators/Govt.
Students/Learners
Standards
Local Language Support tools
LMS/ Authoring Tools
Learning Models
Compression Streaming
Tools Technologies
National Knowledge Network
National Mission on Education
Colleges/ Universities
Internet/ Broadband
Infrastructure
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Summary

• Missions such as NKN NME-ICT require enormous
  determination and vision continuity.
• The philosophy is Encourage, Enable, Enrich, and
  Empower the users.
• Collaboration, Interaction and Sharing are
  Important Paradigms for Quality Education and
  Innovation, Government would act as Catalyst.
• ICT is expected to bring in revolution in
  Education the way Text books revolutionised a few
  hundred years ago
• Ultimately it is the Mindset of the stake holders
  requires a paradigm shift ICT is only a tool it
  is not a replacement
• Laptops can not replace Headtops

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Thank You
bkm_at_mit.gov.in