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Proliferation of ICT in Education – Major Govt. Initiatives - Challenges

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, 11 th June, 2011. Key Factors of Knowledge Economy.

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Proliferation of ICT in Education – Major Govt. Initiatives - Challenges

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  1. 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

  2. Key Factors of Knowledge Economy Govt. role is to act as a catalyst

  3. 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 3

  4. 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??

  5. 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 !!! 5

  6. 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

  7. 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@Schools

  8. National Knowledge Network Objective 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. 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.

  9. Features of the NKN EDGE Distribution EDGE Distribution EDGE CORE Distribution EDGE EDGE Distribution Distribution EDGE EDGE 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). EDGE

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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 Hon’ble President of India on April 9, 2009 Final Phase: 20-25 PoPs, 600+ secondary PoPs, 1500 core institutions (400+ universities, R&D labs) to be connected Traffic from the affiliated colleges/centers/institutions are aggregated through MPLS-VPN to connect to NKN

  13. 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;

  14. 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.

  15. NMEICT Connecting: Universities BSNL Cloud INTERNET NKN CLOUD UNIV#1 UNIV #2 UNIV #3

  16. Universities merging with NKN BSNL Cloud INTERNET NKN CLOUD UNIV#1 UNIV #2 UNIV #3

  17. Universities Aggregating Affiliated Colleges BSNL Cloud INTERNET Aggregate Traffic to NKN NKN CLOUD MPLS CLOUDc Colleges UNIV#1 UNIV #2

  18. ICT @ 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

  19. National Skill Development Initiative • Government of India has approved the ‘Coordinated Action of Skill Development’: • Three tier structure set up: • Prime Minister’s 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

  20. DIT’s 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

  21. Internet 2 n GEANT Servers Servers Servers 3 Higher Learning Institutions Internet Database Servers 2 Application Servers Web Servers 1 VPN/IP MPLS Network 10 Gigabit GRID Connecting Institutions on common Network Servers Pool Schools colleges VPN/Firewall/ IPS Central Data Centre Hosting Content & Applications of different disciplines Wi-Fi Enabled Virtual Classroom Backbone ICT infrastructure Connecting Global

  22. 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 Virtual Class Rooms Mobile Learning 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

  23. 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

  24. Thank You bkm@mit.gov.in

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