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NPTEL is a curriculum building exercise and is directed towards providing learning materials in science and engineering by adhering to the syllabi of All India Council for Technical Education and the slightly modified curricula of major affiliating Universities.
It has developed curriculum based video courses and web-based e-courses targeting students and faculty of institutions offering UG engineering programs. NPTEL provides free online courseware in the form of web courses and video lectures.
These lectures utilize a multitude of facilities of the video medium such as chalk-and-talk, tablet writing, power point, two and three dimensional animations, interactive codes, etc. Each course comprises approximately 40 video lectures of about 1 hour duration.
An online discussion forum is incorporated wherein students can post and review questions. Wherever applicable, course assignments, handouts, self-evaluation tasks, etc. Workshops are routinely conducted for institutes, students, mentors, etc. There are approximately courses are web based courses and are video courses in various disciplines currently being offered across Engineering, Sciences, Technology, Management and Humanities.
Individuals who are unable to download lectures due to bandwidth constraints may purchase the video courses in DVDs from BodhBridge Educational Services Private Limited, Chennai, by paying a nominal fee that covers the cost of 2 DVDs and shipment logistics. NPTEL contents are being used by various educational institutions as part of their teaching- learning process. While faculty members are using these contents as part of their lesson plan to teach university curriculum, students are using NPTEL not only to prepare for technical jobs and competitive exams, but also as a platform for constant learning and updating knowledge for the ever-changing environment and market realities.
These courses offered 2 or 3 times every year are aimed at bridging the gap between academia and industry. On successful completion of the course, an in-person, proctored exam can be taken by paying a nominal fee. Those who pass the exam will be awarded a certificate. They in turn are responsible to disseminate it among the students. Responsibilities of the SPOC include, identifying suitable mentors for various courses, encourage students to enrol in courses, submit their assignments on time, clarify any doubts they may have and so on.
Practice tests without solution are also available for students that mimic the actual online exam pattern. Launched in , the Project has remodeled conventional teaching methodologies in classrooms through the use of IT. The project also conducts specialized training for visually challenged teachers in that state. The project functions on a free software platform. ICT training: Training given to familiarise the basics of operating systems and office software packages and other application software.
Hardware training: 3 day training programme on hardware maintenance and basic support. Internet training: This 20 hour training programme was given to all SITCs and interested school teachers. The government also issued strict instructions that every student in Std X in the school should get at least 10 hours of internet exposure per year. IT training for the visually challenged: In association with Insight scheme of Kerala State IT Mission, the Project has successfully imparted IT training using free software for teachers of special schools for visually challenged, by exclusively using free software based screen reading software named ORCA.
Camera handling training: Two day training on camera handling was given to the teachers, enabling them to create educational videos which could be beneficial in implementing ICT enabled education. Training on ICT enabled content: Specific training on ICT enabled content was provided to teachers so as to enable them to use ICT enabled content in all subjects in order to equal teachers in classroom transaction. Through this process implemented by the Project, details of as much as 72, service books from schools were entered in the database.
Currently schools use this software to generate the monthly salary bills of teachers and staff. The portal at www. This collaborative website is completely prepared in Malayalam. All high schools in the state include their educational contents and other details in their allotted space. Each school would be able to enter details such as basic elementary data, their historical references, statistics, infrastructure details, details of alumni, school websites and blogs, various clubs and forums, class magazines, supporting images and videos.
By facilitating the students to access and modify all contents in Schoolwiki, the project also ensures the participation of the general public including school alumni. Sampoorna Sampoorna is a school management system project implemented by the Education Department of Government of Kerala to automate the system and process of over 15, schools in the state.
A time-table preparation software has also been integrated into the software. VICTERS offers interactive virtual classrooms that enable the school students as well as the teachers to directly communicate with the subject experts and educationists. It also ensures the dissemination of high quality education to the students and teachers from the original source.
In November , the state government of Kerala put into place a project, piloted in Malappuram, with the goal of at least one person in every family to be computer literate in that district. Malappuram is now what is said to be India's First E-literate District. The mission continues to make Kerala the First E-literate state in India. In Malappuram district alone, Akshaya has conducted one of the world's largest computer literacy drives, claiming to reach over , households, representing more than 3.
The project has created a unique brand of state-funded computer access centers, and simultaneously led to a massive wireless infrastructure, providing a wide range of services and making way to many future opportunities. The project offers lots of services like: E-Pay electronic payment of utility bills like electricity, land phone, drinking water, university fees etc. In the nineties of the last century United Nations ratings for the different regions of the world recorded Kerala as an economic miracle.
In several social parameters the State was at par with the developed West. This unbelievable feat was achieved in spite of a lesser per capita income and lack of industrial back up. The great economist —Amarthya Sen attributed this achievement to the spread of education to a wider level in Kerala society.
A section of educated among Keralites utilised the services of information technology for further economic development. But the vast majority did not take to this technology for consolidating and furthering the achievements on the social front. A digital divide developed in the State as elsewhere between a minority that could use information technology for development and the majority that could not do so.
Planners in the socio-economic front sooner realised that the consolidation of socio economic development in Kerala was possible only by removing the digital divide in the society. The vast majority of the populace have to be equipped with the tools of Information and Communication Technology to achieve tangible progress.
The less privileged sections had to be empowered with ICT. Those at the helms in the three-tier panchayat system in the State realized the importance of ICT for socio- economic development and they came forward with plan proposals and programmes to bring information technology to common households. Meanwhile, Government constituted the State Information Technology Mission for achieving transparency and speed in administration so as to make it more responsive to the needs of the people and for grass roots level application of information technology as part of social engineering for development.
The department will focus on setting up district- level resources centre aid the spread of IT-enabled education in the state. Abdul kalam the president of India on 28th July in Thiruvanathapuram. It is a bouquet of six channels. Sixteen of these stations are already operational, viz. Each Gyan Vani radio station caters to a service area of around 60 km radius and can be received on normal FM radio sets.
The programming mainly aims at local educational needs in the local language. The help of local educational institutions and educationists is sought in programme production. Live programmes with phone-in interactivity is a notable feature of Gyan Vani stations, which are particularly popular with the student population. Resource persons present in the studio explain the topic of the day after which a live question- answer session follows. Students from some select cities in the country can phone- in by using a toll free number and get their doubts cleared in real time.
These phone-in counselling sessions are a boon to distance education students as they provide the much needed interactivity and human touch. It is a cooperative venture for pooling, sharing, and optimisation of library resources in the country. It aims to provide a channel to the academicians and researchers for exchange of information from sources within the country and abroad. It is a major programme towards modernisation of libraries and information services in the country, using computer and communication technologies.
All the disciplines such as science, technology, medicine, agriculture, fine arts, humanities, social sciences, etc. Communication is used as an empowerment tool for developing society. In other words, communication is used as a tool to facilitate the participation of people in development activities. Millions of people in developing countries are excluded from a wide range of information and knowledge, with the rural poor in particular remaining isolated from both traditional media and new information and communication technologies which would improve their life.
It is about using communication to change or improve something. The messages which are designed to transform the behavior of people or for improving their quality of life can be termed as development communication and these messages used to change the socio-economic condition of people.
Even after the advent of electronic media-like radio and television, the print media has not lost its charm or relevance. Print media has the advantage of making a longer impact on the minds of the reader with more in-depth reporting and analysis.
The contribution of print media in providing information and transfer of knowledge is remarkable. Now-a-days, print media is faster than all ever before due to amazing advances in technology in recent years. Technical breakthroughs alter the way we perceive the universe and manner in which we communicate with one another. The transfer of complex information, ideas and concepts from one individual to another, or to a group, underwent extreme evolution since prehistoric times.
It has been 30, years later since the first recorded evidence of written communication and it is still dramatically changing. The Press in India, particularly the Indian language newspapers, was in the forefront of the struggle for freedom. Many leaders from Mahatma Gandhi downwards used their newspapers to activate the people to participate in the freedom struggle. But the newspapers are no longer active in the fight against poverty, disease, illiteracy and superstition.
Political leaders used the Press to rouse the people. It was, therefore, natural that the British rulers of India used every weapon in their armoury to silence the nationalist press.
Newspapers always had the sword of Damocles hanging over their head. Security was asked at the slightest pretext and editors and publishers were prosecuted for sedition. Some editors were even transported to the Andaman. For the editors and people who worked in newspapers, journalism was a mission.
Even captains of commerce who published newspapers treated this activity as their contribution to the struggle for freedom. Wages for journalists were poor and there was no security. Newspaper publication was not profitable and journalism was not paying as compared to other professions but things changed after Independence and each year saw acceleration in change. In India, whilst newspapers came much later as opposed to Europe or America, it has a rich pedigree of being a witness and a catalyst to the birth and growth of the nation.
Although the paper was rather frivolous in nature as it mostly only published gossip and advertisements, the thriving media industry owes its existence to James Augustus Hickey and his Gazette. Interestingly, the Bombay Courier later merged with the Times of India newspaper.
In , the first regional language newspaper Samachar Darpan was published in Bengali. The Bombay Samachar started in , remains to this day the oldest newspaper in Asia. In the pre independence era, newspapers had one agenda in their minds — to further their ideology. Bal Ganghadar Tilak is a prominent stalwart of the pre-independence era and a revolutionary leader who used his newspaper as a vehicle of communicating his ideas and ideals of the freedom struggle. Kesari, which was established in , was published in Marathi.
Prior to , the newspaper industry had only one goal — to proliferate the cause of Independence. After India became Independent in , British owners of the newspapers like The Times of India also left the country, handing over the businesses to Indian companies. Editors of profreedom struggle Indian newspapers had anti-British stance till These newspapers gradually changed their approach; some became pro-establishment and the others adopted aggressive anti-establishment strategies.
The publishers during the subsequent decades expanded their groups and chains with additions of new editions at other centers or new publications.
It means after the independence of India scene of print media has changed. There has been a phenomenal rise in the number of newspapers and their circulation. The number of pages has increased. The quality of production has improved all rounds. Even medium Indian language newspapers have taken advantage of the advances in printing and communication technology to bring out multiple edition dailies. The best example of this one is Daily Sakaal which is among the first newspapers not only in Maharashtra but also in India, to have adopted modern management systems and processes.
It has deployed the latest technology made available through partners who are world leaders in their areas of specialisation. What is more, being rooted in the soil they are more aware of local problems and so they playing active role in the fight against poverty, disease, illiteracy and superstition. A book authored by Dr. Sami Khiami discusses the concept of web application security and explain the attack process, attack types and different used methodologies to achieve an acceptable level of application security.
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