Digital Initiatives in Higher Education National Conference for

Digital Initiatives in Higher Education National Conference for Vice Chancellors and Directors 27 th July 2018 Dr. N. Saravana Kumar, Joint Secretary (TEL & ICC)

Key Digital Initiatives in Higher Education Campus Connectivity ODB

SWAYAM - free online education for all Objectives Implementation Regulation (swayam. gov. in) • Anyone, anywhere, anytime learning • Learning at no cost • Equity in access to quality education • Launched on 9 th July 2017 • 9 National Coordinators –(NPTEL/UGC/CEC/IIMB/ IGNOU/NCERT/NIOS/AICTE/NITTTR) • UGC: Credit transfer Framework through SWAYAM • Guidelines for quality maintenance in courses June 2017 • Under Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) of UGC, Creation of MOOCs or training through MOOCs is one of the eligibility criteria for promotion

Speedy Progress

SWAYAM : 1. Approve the courses on offer : Action Plan 17 - by-17 • 80 Universities have approved credit transfer of SWAYAM courses • 26 Technical Institutions have approved SWAYAM NPTEL courses • More Universities are requested to approve the Courses for credit transfer in their Senate/Academic Councils 2. Publicize the courses : • TVCs , Radio Jingles , Posters, Social Media campaign by UGC, AICTE and NPTEL • UGC - printing and dispatch of these poster to all University • 30 seconds radio spots in the 10 regional languages plus Hindi is broadcasted in 268 FM Channels across PAN India Universities are requested • to place the posters at prominent places on the campus • to provide the above Posters & TVCs link in their websites • to actively publicize the new initiatives like SWAYAM on Social Media to maximize the reach among students • Course Coordinator to publicise his course in Social Media • @SWAYAMMHRD - swayammoocs

SWAYAM : Action Plan 17 - by-17 3. Prepare new courses : • 800 + courses prepared by • More than 50 Universities - Delhi University , National Law University-Delhi , IGNOU , JNU , University of Calicut , Punjabi University , Manipur University, University of Kashmir , Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda , Calcutta University , Osmania University, Madurai Kamaraj University • IITs - 7 • IISCc Bangalore • IIM B • NITTTRs- 4 • NCERT • NIOS • Talented teachers across the Universities encouraged to send proposals for courses to respective NCs • Funding Support for creating & running MOOCs - 13. 5 lacs for creation ; 1. 2 lacs for running

SWAYAM : Action Plan 17 - by-17 4. Retrain teachers: • 15 lakhs untrained teachers in School education are getting trained under DEl. Ed programme by NIOS Under PMMMNMTT (Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching): • 75 NRCs (National Resource Centres) will prepare MOOCs courses for Online Teacher Training • 20 Faculty Development Centres for Offline Teacher Training • 12 Top NIRF ranked Institutions will provide 3 week Leadership Development Program, including one week foreign component 5. Monitoring Cell: • 2803 Local Chapters (971 UGC + 1832 NPTEL) created to publicize and help faculty & students • Every University should have a Digital Learning Monitoring Cell - to review current use of these digital resources - to suggest way to improve them and their utilisation

SWAYAM Prabha (www. swayamprabha. gov. in) q Launched on 9 th July 2017 q Can be accessed through DTH of public broadcaster q 24 X 7 transmission q Four Hours of fresh content every day – repeated 5 times q Above 3000 institutions have set up facilities for reception q Freely Available on DD Free Dish , Dish Tv (Zee) and Jio mobile app q Channels uplinked from BISAG , Gandhinagar using 2 transponders of GSAT-15 Satellite.

Channel Distribution 9 Free DTH Channel for Education NPTEL (10) UGC-CEC (10) IGNOU (4) IIT-PAL (4) NCERT (1) NIOS (3) Engineering Non- Diploma & Competitive School Open Science & Technology Certificates Exam Programs Education Technology UG-PG Subjects Preparation Subjects Programs Subjects

SWAYAM Prabha : Action Plan 17 - by-17 6. Installation of free Dish : • 3000 Institutions have installed free Dish • Institutions are requested - to install the DD free Dish DTH in the office of VC / Director, to access SWAYAM Prabha DTH channels - to install DTH in as many class rooms as possible - Mandate other affiliated colleges to operationalise the same 7. Orient the teachers: • VCs should hold orientation sessions for all teachers to see and use these channels • Promote blended Mode of Education

National Digital Library (www. ndl. gov. in) q Formally launched on 19 th June 2018 q 24 x 7 learning resource q Accessible by any one , from anywhere and anytime q Single window search facility with filters through which users can personalise q More than 1 Crore 75 lakh e-books/journals/audio books/question banks q Contents are available in 200 + Languages q Registrations : 35 lakh q Number of institutions: 13, 352 q Mobile App downloads : 9. 1 Lakhs

National Digital Library (NDL) : Action Plan 17 - by-17 8. Join the NDL: • 13, 352 Universities / Institutions have joined National Digital Library (NDL) • 107 Universities / Institutions have shared their resources to National Digital Library (NDL) • All Universities / Institutions immediately join NDL and students may be asked to use these resources free 9. Digitise your Libraries : • All books in the libraries may be digitised • Universities should take care about copyright issues

National Academic Depository(www. nad. gov. in) q Electronic storehouse of academic awards ( certificates, degrees, marksheets) q Launched on 9 th July 2017 q 655 - Academic Institutions /Universities / CFTIs q 1, 26, 10, 193 Academic Awards issued q 124 entities started Verification on NAD 10. Join the NAD : • Every Institution should join the NAD • All the past certificates/degrees/diplomas issued also be uploaded in NAD Action Plan 17 - by-17

E-yantra (www. e-yantra. org) q Promoting robotics as multi-disciplinary engineering project q Supporting innovation by students q Learning by doing through group work q Train teachers to teach engineering better q A project by IIT Mumbai under NMEICT q e-yantra Lab Setup initiative (e. LSI) supports infrastructure creation q e-yantra competitions are held across colleges to create awareness q 296 Labs established in 32+ regions , propose to establish 500 + labs q Over 2115 Teachers trained q 5, 932 Total Teams participated in e-Yantra Robotics Competition (e. YRC)

Virtual Lab (www. vlab. co. in) q To provide remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering q A project by IIT Delhi under NMEICT q To share costly equipment and resources, which are otherwise available to limited number of users due to constraints on time and geographical distances q Virtual Labs project, cover 100 Virtual Labs, consisting of approximately 700+ web-enabled experiments, were designed for remote operation and viewing

FOSSEE (Free and Open Source Software for education ) q FOSSEE project (http: //fossee. in ) has been promoting use of open source software in educational institutions q A project by IIT Mumbai under NMEICT q Textbook Companion (TBC) is a collection of code for solved examples of standard textbooks. 1, 000 TBCs have been created in Scilab and Python alone q FOSSEE is promoting the well established open source software: Open FOAM, an alternative to the proprietary software Fluent for computational fluid dynamics q DWSIM, an alternative to the proprietary software Aspen Plus, for chemical process simulation. e. Sim, an electronic design automation software, an alternative to ORCAD

Campus connectivity q NKN Connectivity: q 10 GBPS and 1 Gbps NKN connectivity to 439 Universities through Optical Fiber q Wi-Fi Project on OPEX Model: q Out of 41 Central Universities, 39 Central Universities are Wi-Fi enabled by Rail. Tel. q OPEX model - through TSPs / ISPs q Minimum performance standard for Wi-Fi service circulated by MHRD.

Other Digital Initiatives Action Plan 17 - by-17 11. Digital campus: • MHRD is taking initiative to implement ERP module to integrate and digitize all processes in academic institutions • All campus processes like admissions , academic calendar, attendance , assessments , result declaration , administration, payroll , financial and such other processes shall be digitized 12. Smart Campus: • 214 Institutions having solar installation reported in AISHE • Universities shall plan efficient and economical use of water electricity and waste • Use Solar power and water recycling systems in campus to bring sustainability and savings in the long run

Other Digital Initiatives Action Plan 17 - by-17 13. Clean campus : • 3500 + Institutions participated in wherein 170 institutions were shortlisted for field verification • Under the Swachhta Action Plan (SAP) of the Department, 10 Higher Educational Institutions (IITs & NITs) were sanctioned research projects in the areas of solid and liquid waste management, water purity, garbage disposal etc • Swachh Campus Manual released 14. National Digital Payment Mission: • 114 Cr Transaction reported by 69 universities , 40 technical Institutions , 8 IITs/IIMs/IISERs/CFTIs • Every Institution should move towards a complete digital payment system covering all transactions • Mandatorily implement the EAT (Expenditure advance and transfer) module w. e. f 1 st July, 2018 for all Government Grants

Other Digital Initiatives Action Plan 17 - by-17 15. Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan : • 748 Institutions participating • 3750 villages benefited so far • 290 Districts are involved • Funding support - Field Visits ( 10, 000 per village ); Customisation of existing technology ( 50, 000 per village ); Development of new technology ( 1 lac per village ) • Every Institution to adopt at least 5 villages and help in translating their knowledge for use of the rural poor • Institute to use existing resources to support Unnat Bharat Abhiyan

Other Digital Initiatives Action Plan 17 - by-17 16. Innovation Drives : Smart India Hackathon – 2017 edition : • 1168 teams having 7008 students (6 in each team) participated in • 1200 + Universities / Institution participated • 598 Problem statements given 2018 edition : • 2 sub-editions – Software as well as Hardware • 1282 teams having 7692 students (6 in each team) participating • 1315+ Universities participating • 408 Problem statements (software & hardware) to be solved in Hackathon 2018 ODB (Operation Digital Board) • Creation of digital classroom in each school from class 9 th up to Post Graduation in Higher Education institutes • 15 lac class rooms to be covered • Students may be encouraged to think out-of-the-box and arrive at solutions that are innovative • Universities/ Institutions should organize competitions and participate in hackathons

Other Digital Initiatives Action Plan 17 - by-17 17. Plan For Future: Every institution should plan for the future. They should constitute a group within the campus for preparing the following : a. A 15 -year vision: to determine where the institution would like to be b. A 7 -year strategic plan: to work out medium term plans to reach there c. A 3 -year action plan: for immediate improvement of the quality of learning

Hon’ble HRM’s letter to all Vice Chancellors :

Thank You