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Envisioning of CEC’s objectives
and goals and realigning in the
context of HE policies on ICT &
e-learning
at
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Pradeep Kaul
Senior Consultant, NME-ICT, MHRD
Former Jt. Dir (Tec) CEC
[email protected]
16th November , 2011
Views expressed in this presentation
are of the author.
NATIONAL MISSION ON
EDUCATION,
THROUGH
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COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY (ICT)
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Mission Document on
NME-ICT
is available at
www.sakshat.ac.in
The Mission document has 48 Objectives
NME-ICT
MHRD, Govt. of India, has initiated a massive
programme of utilising ICT for spread of e-learning in
the country,
under the banner "National Mission on Education
through ICT" (NME-ICT). An amount of Rs.4612 Crore
is to be incurred during the 11th Five Year Plan (200712).
The Mission was launched on February 3, 2009 by the
Hon’ble HRM at Tirupati, wherein all the Vicechancellors, Directors of premier institutions and other
dignities were invited to attend the function.
CONTENT GENERATION
The Mission aims to generate e-content, video
programmes and content, suitably seen on Net,
DTH, IPTV, etc.
The content will be generated for complete Under
Graduate/Post Graduate subjects in hundreds of
courses that are currently taught in colleges and
universities throughout the country.
High quality e-content production in almost every
subject /course / discipline, for the target groups has
already been initiated by hundreds of colleges,
universities, institutions of higher learning across the
Country.
CONTENT GENERATION
Development of e-Content by IIT’s titled, National
Programme of Technology enhanced Learning (NPTEL)
Phase II and III will be part of the content generation
activity. 120 courses on Web+ 120 Video Courses in
Phase-I. Phase II, 1020 Video courses for 24 disciplines
of engineers UG, PG & Management are being added.
CEC is developing e-Content in 19 and 68 subjects of
UG in phase I and II respectively
UGC shall produce Post Grad., e-Content in 77 Subjects
TERI University is developing PG Programme in
environmental sciences
Development of Content in Regional Language.
About 1800 Crores are for on Content Generation.
Provision of e-books, e-journals
The Mission shall make available: (a) textbooks, reference
books, research journals, learning material and software
that may be used for educational and training purpose etc.,
(b) high quality reading material, reference material,
research papers, educational software, for use by Indian
learners, free of cost, in digitized form.
Right now for College students 74,000 e-books from 297
publishers, 3700 e-Journals are available to 1,08,729
students associated to 1,512 Institutions. Similarly for
University students more than 7,500 e-Journals to students
associated to 297 Institutions are available from
INFLIBNET & IIT Delhi
Full text e-Thesis numbering 2224 is available.
Development of Access Devices
Experimentation and development of ultra low
cost low power consuming access devices/
laptops (Android 2.2) for a wider coverage of
learners & their field trials. A 7” LCCD
numbering 10, 000 pieces and costing about
Rs. 2250/- was launched on 5th October, 2011
by the HRM
Provision of 220 million PC in 22000
Institutions of Higher Learning at 50% subsidy
shall be made available to students of Higher
education.
Other Developmental Projects
Development of Language Converter and
Translation Tool Kit:
Creation of Bi-lingual Corpora and Development of
Machine Aided Translation Engines, English to
Tamil/ Hindi
Development of Vocational Education modules and
use of Haptic devices for education and training
Develop software interfaces for Linear Haptic
device – Hacksaw, File, Table saw, Planar, Jigsaw,
Band-saw
Development of Low Cost mobile Robots- Robotica
for Education
Other Developmental Projects
The village community network technology
development and pilot out plan for low cost
opportunity communication network for rural areas
of India.
Library Automation & Resource Sharing network
Development of an Indian sign language
recognition system for hearing impaired students
of India
CONTENT DESSIMINATION
Interactivity and problem solving approach would be
addressed through “Talk to a Teacher” component,
where availability of teachers to take the questions of
learners shall be ensured appropriately.
NME-ICT would simultaneously extend computer
infrastructure and connectivity to over 22000
colleges in the country including each of the
departments of 450 universities/deemed universities
and institutions of national importance on a single
point rental basis.
The scheme shall not discriminate between
Institutions in Govt and Private sectors.
CONNECTIVITY (Net)
2000 nodes for 1 Gbps connectivity (equivalent
to 2000 number of 512 kbps VPN endpoint) at
each of the 100 Central Institutions / premier
institutions to be connected through BSNL
Internet + VPN Plan.
15-20 nodes of 10 Mbps connectivity at each of
the 22,000 Institutions of Higher Learning
connected through BSNL Internet + VPN Plan.
• As on Sept, 1, 2011, 375B+10M Universities and
12435+194 Colleges have been connected
DEVELOPMENT & REALIZATION of
VIRTUAL LABORATORIES
Tools for setting up of Virtual labs for quality
enhancement are being developed, so that the
learners in distance education system and remotely
located & backward areas can reap the benefit of
quality and relevant education, through ICT mode.
About 882 Virtual Lab experiments in first phase are
being designed, comprising of a user friendly
graphical front-end, working in synchronization with a
backend, consisting of a simulation-engine running on
a server or actual measurement data or a real
experiment.
DEVELOPMENT & REALIZATION of
VIRTUAL LABORATORIES
Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engg.,
Chemical Sciences, Mechanical Eng., Civil Engg.,
Physical Sciences, Biotechnology, Computer Science
and Engg, Chemical Engg.
Virtual Labs will provide students results of an
experiment by:
i)
Remote triggered experiments
ii)
Measurement based
III) Modeling / simulations.
Besides this Development of software controlled
hardware programming for robotics & other crucial
areas.
Development of
Enterprise Recourse Package
Learning Management System (LMS)
Student behaviour tracking and Visualization
Time table management
Library management system
Asset manag. & tracking system with APIs to interface
tracking devices
Project management system
Grant management system
Localization into regional languages
Cloud API, Security framework, Brihaspati-4.
Service upgradation to Chaupal based storage cloud.
Development of
Enterprise Recourse Package
Upgrade to OpenID based authentication and
authorisation
Online academic registration system – to be
made operational.
Student portfolio management system.
Parent notification and interaction system.
Payroll, taxation and accounting system.
BrihasptiSync – live lecture delivery system.
Brihaspati websites – Content management
system
CONNECTIVITY DTH
Beside Net, there is a provision to disseminate
educational material to digitally deprived students
throughout the country: via DTH and EDUSAT.
One EduSAT Satellite Interactive Terminal (SIT) at each
of the 22,000 Institutions of Higher Learning.
Provision of 1000 DTH Channels for beaming various
educational programmes including IPTv.
This would enable availability of one DTH channel for
every subject for every class and in many of the
regional Languages.
It is envisaged to have about 40 – 50 transponders from
Indian satellites.
WHAT SHOULD BE THE
PRODUCTION
& DELIVERY METHODOLOGY Of
e-EDUCATION
IN INDIA
(views)
Teaching Methodology
India has acute shortage of Teachers, to have
Equity and Access, it is therefore felt that there is
a need to deliver Teaching, besides providing
tools for Learning to the students.
Since it is difficult to synchronize the e-learning
deliveries with the teaching taking place through
conventional methods all over the country, it is
proposed that we should reach the students, at
their Homes through DTH, besides reaching
them at Institutions through IP N/w.
Medium Scenario in India
INDIA: 240 Million Homes
Medium (As on March 31, 2010)
Installations Home Density
in Millions
%
TV Sets (112M C&S + 28M T)
145
35.6
60.4
14.8
90
12.5
37.5
(14%) 5.2
DTH ( TRAI Report)
PC
Broadband ( As on July 2011 report)
Internet : 20.00 Millions
Number of TV Channels: 652
No of wired Telephone lines
34.18Millions
Mobile Subscribers
858.37 Millions
India enjoys 24% & 29% growth in Internet & telephone connectivity
respectively. Tele density in India is 52.74%.
DTH is Cost Effective
145 m TV – 90 m Pc = 55 m
55 m x 25,000 Rs. = 1375000 m Rs.
137 thousand Crores
and additional monthly recurring expenses on
Bandwidth access charges.
Therefore delivery of educational content together,
through DTH and IP is not only economic, but can
enable half of the population start benefiting from the
national Educational Missions, shortly.
It is recommended that the Content Generation should
begin together for delivery platforms such as TV & PC.
Media Scenario & Transponders
TV Channels mostly use about 8 hours of fresh and
repeat programmes and repeat it 3 times a day for
global demand of different time zones.
Proposed DTH Channels to have 6-8 hours of live
programmes, repeated 4-3 times a day.
As reflected in the Mission Document (NME-ICT) a
number of about 1000 DTH Channels shall be
launched and each channel shall be devoted to a
specific subject. Following DVB-S2 Transmission and
H.264 Compression, we require about 2 Transponders
initially and about 40 transponders at latter stage.
ISRO shall provide the Transponders
CONTENT MANAGMENT
Pre recorded content on a number of (i) engineering
subjects is available under NTPL (ii) under graduate
subjects is available with the CEC/UGC and (iii) other
subjects at IGNOU and at other Institutions.
The content s shall be Digitized, Archived, cerate
Metadata and Playlist.
Such stored content shall be used to support structured
Dissemination along with Live transmission.
The Metadata shall help students to scan through the
server and retrieve a content as per his requirement
and make it available to him via Uni-cast thro’ Internet.
Content Requirement
It may further be seen that about 2200-3000 hours
of fresh and live programme material shall be
required per annum to run a channel.
It is therefore, proposed that 6-8 lectures, of each
one hour duration, LIVE by subject experts shall
be delivered, per day . Each lecture of 40 minutes
of duration and followed by 20 minutes of
interactive session.
The questions can be asked by using any of the
communication modes such as mobile, landline,
video conferencing, SMS, e-mail, fax etc.
NETWORK TOPOGRAPHY
It is proposed to set up technical system
comprising of Multiple Star Network Topography
by groups of Central Institutions, such as Central
Universities Networks, i.e., IIT’s network, NIT’s
Network, CEC Network, Agriculture universities
network, Management Institution network etc.
Each of these Central Universities Networks
shall derive technical and content support from
respective institutions affiliated to it. The Central
Institution Network shall generate more than one
Channel.
SYSTEM NETWORKS
The content of each channel originated by an
Affiliated Institution under the Central Institution
can reach the Central Institution Network through
Fiber or otherwise and beamed as Central
Institution channels.
All such signals/channels originating from Central
Institutions shall reach MHRD Hub, where from
they will be integrated with signals/Channels from
other Central Institutions to form Forward Path to
be up-linked to DTH, IPTV, DVB-RCS, DVB-H,
Streaming, VPN etc or respective delivery system.
CENTRAL INST. NETWORK TOPOGRAPHY
MC 1
MC 2
nCIN
CEC
4
NIT
5
IIM
20 ch
MC 3
3
2
n ch
MC 17
1
200 Channels
IIT 1
12ch
IIT 2
40
40 ch
Central
Universities
IIT - Delhi
1
IIT 3
2
3
NETWORK UNIFICATION
Live & Interactive Teaching End
Forward Path
DTH
IPTV
DVB-RCS
DVB - H
Return Path
PSTN
Video
Conferencing
Chat, SMS
e-mail ,
Fax
VPN
/Net
MICRO LEVEL PLANNING
In the first instance it is proposal to set up a
Central Institution Networks that may launch
about 40-60 DTH channels with immediate
effect.
It is proposed that CEC, all IIT’s, IIM’s, NIT’s
etc institution shall be asked to come up with
the ‘DTH Channels. CEC Media Centre may
be asked to originate a Channel on the subject
on which they are producing complete
undergraduate e-content course material.
MICRO LEVEL DELIVERY
A Teaching End comprising of mini-studio shall be set
up at each of Institutions. It is proposed 4-6 hours of
live lectures (each lecture one hour duration) may be
delivered by such Centres.
A recorded programme of about half an hour duration
shall be played in between two live sessions.
The signals from each teaching End shall reach the
Central Institution through Fiber and having a
redundancy line.
Two transponder shall be hired immediately and an
Earth Station shall be set up for this in Delhi.
PRODUCTION METHODOLOGY
The subject experts shall be asked to use all
convenient aids of delivery material such video clips,
animation material, live internet, graphic etc. It is
proposed that a White Board having facilities to
generate over a click of button all such inputs shall be
made available to the subject expert and the selected
material passed on to the live stream, to benefit the
students watching such programmes.
The Management Technical and Academic activities
shall be looked after by the Central Institution. It shall
be responsibility of Central Institution to manage
generation of content for channels in its network.
MULTI MEDIUM DISSEMINATION
For utilising benefits of multimode reception
techniques
and for deeper dissemination of
educational content, it is desired to propagate online simultaneously on TV, terrestrial, satellite, cable,
IPTV, web, mobile and even on podcast versions.
Further, create a return paths based on voice, Text,
Video conferencing etc., and amalgamate them in
order to have real-time interactivity from student
community, world over with the Expert/Teacher
online to address their difficulties through the use of
multi mode and Mediums such as Telephone, Fax,
internet, Satellite etc.
Such a Unification of Networks along with return
path is envisaged.
Network Unification
Anycast
Internet
BRC-HD-700
PTZ Camera
Eq. Model is for Reference only
Network Unification
Set Top Box
or a PC
USB
DVD
THANK YOU
FOR
YOUR KIND ATTENTION
E-mail: [email protected]
About the Author
Pradeep Kaul, born in Srinagar, Kashmir in 1951, an Engineering Graduate (Electro. &
Commu.), joined Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Dec. 1972 and
served ISRO over 17 years. As on R&D projects developed Broadcast quality Video
Camera, Camera Control Unit, Waveform monitor & other equipment during 1980’s at
ISRO. Was member Core Team responsible for operations, maintenance & Installation
activities, during Satellite Instructions Television Experiment (SITE) in1975-76 and
subsequent Satellites used by India during 1975-85. Has over 39 years of experience
in the field of R & D, Operations, Training, Maintenance & Management of TV Studios,
Satellite & Terrestrial Broadcasting etc. Joined University Grants Commission (UGC)
in 1990 as Joint Director (Hw) & served Consortium for Educational Communicational
(CEC) an Inter University Centre of UGC, since 1991 till April 2011. Was heading
CEC, as its’ Director from Feb. 2000 till Oct. 2003. Was team leader in design,
coordination and conduct of first & second “National Talkback Experiment” in India,
held during 1991 and 1994. Has been providing technical & managerial guidance to
CEC, Educational Media Centers, National & Internal Organisations, including
UNESCO, AICT. Member Management committees of a number of organisations of
National Repute. Is Member, Broadcast Engineering Society BES (India) and SMPTE
(USA) organisations. Has to his credit a number of papers published in leading
journals. Has joined as Senior Consultant “NME-ICT ” a flagship Project of MHRD
and is a Member “Standing Committee NME-ICT” & Convener DTH Project.