Workshop on ICT enabled Education

Organised by
Mahadevananda Mahavidyalaya, Kolkata
Date: 10/09/2019
Introduction to Online Education & Government Initiative - An Overview & E-
Content Development

Arup Kumar Baksi

Associate Professor
Dept. of Management & Business Administration
Aliah University, Kolkata, West Bengal
Email: baksi.arup@gmail.com
 Brief Evolution of Online Education
• Great Britain: 1847-1848
• University of Illinois: 1960
[PLATO – Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations]
• Electronic University Network
[EUN]: 1984
• CALCampus: 1994
• California Virtual University (CVU) and the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
(JALN): 1997
• Blackboard Inc: 1997
• Open CourseWare Project: 2002
• YouTube Edu: 2005
• Creative Commons: 2010
• Udacity started MOOCs,
MIT & Harvard with edX: 2012
• Flipped Classroom: 2014
 Brief Evolution of Online Education

• Correspondence Courses: 1960-1965

• Open University: APOU 1982
• National Open University: IGNOU 1985
• NPTEL: 1999
• Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning: 2001
• NIIT Cloud Campus: 2013
• SWAYAM - MOOC: 2015
Interest in MOOCs has increased exponentially from 2004 to 2015
Interest in MOOCs has increased exponentially from 2004 to 2015
 MOOC - A different educational space

Massive - enrolment numbers

Open - no mandatory qualifications
Online - fully
Course - structured
is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the
web.
The basic philosophy of MOOCs is 3A’s i.e., Anytime, Anyone, Anywhere.
 Vision, Initiatives and Future Orientation: Govt. Perspective
National Education Policy-2019
• Focus on increasing GER to 30%
Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Higher education in India is 25.8%, which is calculated
for 18-23 years of age group. GER for male population is 26.3% and for females, it is
25.4%. For Scheduled Castes, it is 21.8% and for Scheduled Tribes, it is 15.9% as
compared to the national GER of 25.8%.
• Leveraging Open and Distance Learning (ODL) for improving access to quality
learning experiences
• Online digital repository
(i) Content repositories in Indian languages for educational content – The
National Repository for Open Educational Resources (NROER)
(ii) Machine translation of content uploaded into any content repository
• Support services for students enrolled in Open and Distance Learning (ODL)
• Capacity development for expertise in open and distance learning
• MOOCs & SWAYAM
 Vision, Initiatives and Future Orientation: Govt. Perspective
• Focus on increasing teacher motivation
(i) infrastructure
(ii) autonomy
(iii) career progress
(iv) leadership
• Leveraging Technology
(i) National Educational Technology Forum
(a) Inducting technology for inclusive education
(b) Training Need Analysis of teachers (Mentoring HEIs)
(c) Technological Infrastructure
(d) Technology-based interventions using hardware, software (FOSSEE)
and data
(e) Developing Open Educational Resources (OERs)
(f) Using online resources and developing e-content for MOOCs at the
operational level
(g) Developing technology-driven educational policy
 Govt. Level Initiatives for Online Education
1. e-PG Pathshala

2. SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds)

1. One stop web and mobile based interactive e-content for all courses
from High School to University level.
2. High quality learning experience using multimedia on anytime,
anywhere basis.
3. State of the art system that allows easy access, monitoring and
certification.
4. Peer group interaction and discussion forum to clarify doubts
5. Hybrid model of delivery that adds to the quality of classroom
teaching.
 Govt. Level Initiatives for Online Education

The Four Quadrant approach in SWAYAM:

Quadrant-I: e-tutorial
Quadrant-II: e-content
Quadrant-III: web resources
Quadrant-IV: self assessment
Thank You