National Mission on Education Through

Information and Communication Technology

NME-ICT

Dr.T.V.Rao MD
Professor of Microbiology
Sri Dev Raj Urs Medical College
Kolar 563 101 India

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 National Mission on Education
through Information and
Communication Technology (NME-
ICT)

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 Knowledge is Power
Power through Communication

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 (NME-ICT)
• The Mission approved by the Government of India on the
2nd January, 2009.
• NMEICT launched on 3rd February, 2009.
• It is a Centrally sponsored scheme which entails 75%
contribution from the Centre and 25% from
States/Institutions for connectivity. In the case of NER, the
ratio is 90:10.
• 100% contribution from Centre for content generation.
• 50% contribution from Centre for devices.

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 National Mission on Education
through ICT
•
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Launched by the Ministry of Human Resources
• Development (MHRD), Government of India
• Objective: to raise the levels of education in India
• Outlay: Rs. 4,600 crore over three years
• 40% for content generation
• 60% for bandwidth
• To give 1 GBPS bandwidth to each one of 500
• universities and 20,000 colleges
• Out of these, 3,000 are engineering colleges: 5% government
run, rest private
• Largest and most ambitious plan
• I Likely to continue in the next plan period
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 NME-ICT
• Launched by the Ministry of Human Resources
Development (MHRD), Government of India.
• Objective: to raise the levels of education in India
- Aims to transform the education system,
teachers and students.
•  Opportunity for all the teachers and experts to
pool their collective wisdom for the benefit of
every Indian learner and, thereby

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 Better Literacy through NME-ICT
Warschauer has identified two broad categories of literacy:
• Academic Literacy - competencies related to academic work
(note taking, summarizing, researching, critical reading, etc.)
• Digital Literacy
– Computer Literacy - ability to operate a computer
– Information Literacy - ability to access, understand, organize and archive
digital information
– Multimedia Literacy - ability to create materials using digital resources
(texts, images, audio, video)
– CMC (Computer-mediated communication literacy) - ability to
communicate orally and in writing online (email, chat, instant
messaging, audio/video conferencing, etc.)

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 Why is literacy changing?
• Global shift from industrial economy to information
economy
• Reading/writing forms = more complex » Literacy = more
complex
• Digital forms of reading/writing are replacing printed
forms of reading/writing
– Ex: Obsolescence of typewriter
– Ex: Ubiquitous nature of email
– Ex: Decreased importance of handwriting/increased importance
of typing (voice recognition in future)

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 Learning and Innovation Skills:
Creativity and Innovation Skills
• Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work
• Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to
others
• Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives
• Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful
contribution to the domain in which the innovation
occurs

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 Information, Media & Technology Skills
•People in the 21st century live in a technology and media-
suffused environment, marked by access to an abundance
of information, rapid changes in technology tools, and the
ability to collaborate and make individual contributions on
an unprecedented scale. To be effective in the 21st century,
citizens and workers must be able to exhibit a range of
functional and critical thinking skills related to information,
media and technology.
– Information Literacy
– Media Literacy
– ICT Literacy
(Information, Communications & Technology)

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 Broad Objectives
• To use ICT in enhancing teaching and
learning.
• To reach hitherto deprived sections and
rural / under-developed areas.
• To help in raising the GER in higher
education by 5% in the current Five Year
Plan.
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 OA, Open Source and OER:
Status in India
• Active player in the open source software movement, and OA movement –
• Increasing availability of OA electronic journals, OA institutional repositories and
open source software-based repositories such as DSpace and EPrints.
• scientific journals accessible as OA
• Indian Institute of Science of Bangalore, along with Carnegie Mellon University,
along with 21 Indian institutions have digitised more than 450,000 books,
220,000 of which are now web accessible
• Open Source tools in education- Brihaspati and Vmukti
• Major initiatives like NMEICT and NPTEL to develop open educational content

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 Major ongoing projects under the Mission

• National Programme of Technology Enhanced

Learning (NPTEL)
• Virtual Labs
• Educational Resource Planning (ERP)
• Mobile e-Learning Terminals (MeLT)
• E-books and e-journals (N-LIST)
• Haptic devices

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 Provisions - Outlay
• Outlay: ` 4,600 crore over three years
• 40% for content generation
• 60% for bandwidth
• 1 Gbps bandwidth to everyone of 30,000 colleges;
• Out of these 3,000 are engineering colleges:
• 5% government run, rest private.
• 48 point objectives (Mission Document)
• Low cost computing device for ` 1500 Rs
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Affordable and Economical Devices
to all

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 Mission possible with
NME-ICT
• One of the mandate of the Mission is to generate
a data base of the human resources in different
fields/disciplines and also to predict the
availability and demand of the human resources in
different disciplines. It shall also develop certain
testing modules to test and certify the skills of the
human resources acquired through various formal
and non-formal means.

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 NMEICT
• Experimentation and Development of ultra low cost access devices
for wider coverage of learners & their field trials.
•  Talk to a teacher to provide a substitute for coaching for the
economically poor students
•  Adaptation & deployment of open source simulation packages
equivalent to MATLAB, ORCAD etc.
•  Development of unified ERP system for Educational Institutions.
•  Conversion of available content content in various regional
languages.

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 Sakshat Modules
• Project Management System
• Scholarship Management System
• Learning Resource Repository
• E-book and e-journal portal
• Virtual Classroom
• Live webcasting and video on demand

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 Sakshat: An Official Website of NME-ICT
• Provide updates on the National Mission on Education
through ICT (NMEICT)
• Keep record of meetings of the different Committees of
the Mission
• Platform for project uploading, reviewing and monitoring
• Provide one stop access to all e-content developed under
the Mission as well as open access and licensed e-journals
and e-books
• Manage scholarships of the MHRD
• Provide virtual learning platform for the learners with
built in interactivity

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 Amrutha Institute empowers ICT
Modules
• “The dharma of
knowledge is to
flow to all corners
of the world and
nourish the
cultures there.”

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 The objectives of the National
Mission on Education through ICT
• (a) building connectivity and knowledge network
among and within institutions of higher learning in
the country with a view of achieving critical mass of
researchers in any given field;
• (b) spreading digital literacy for teacher
empowerment;
• (c ) development of knowledge modules having the
right content to take care of the aspirations of
academic community and to address to the
personalized needs of the learners;
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 The objectives of the National Mission
on Education through ICT
• (d) standardization and quality assurance of e-
contents to make them world class;
(e) research in the field of pedagogy for
development of efficient learning modules for
disparate groups of learners;
(f ) making available of e-knowledge contents, free
of cost to Indians;

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The objectives of the National Mission on
Education through ICT
• (g) experimentation and field trial in the area of performance
• optimization of low cost access devices for use of ICT in
• education;
• (h) providing support for the creation of Virtual Technological
• University;
• (i) identification and nurturing of talent;
• (j) certification of competencies of the human resources acquired
• either through formal or non-formal means and the evolution of a
legal framework for it; and
• (k) developing and maintaining the database with the profiles of
our human resources
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 Four Quadrant Approach
1st Quad 2nd Quad
e-Content e-Tutorial

PDF / e-Books / illustration , video

demonstrations / document arising &
Content Video + Audio in an
Interactive simulations wherever organised form, Animation,
required Simulations, Virtual Labs

3rd Quad 4th Quad

Web Resources Self Assessment

Related Links, Wikipedia Development of MCQ, Problems, Quizzes, Assignments

Course, Open Content in Internet, Case & solutions, Online feedback through
Studies, Anecdotal information, Historical discussion forums & setting up the FAQ
development of the subject, Articles , General Misconceptions

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 National Knowledge Commission (NKC)
Recommendations
• Use of globally available Open Educational
Resources (OER) and Open Access (OA) as a means
of radically increasing the widespread availability
of high-quality educational resources
• Setting up of a National Education Foundation to
develop web based common open resources

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 Open source for Developing countries
• Open source reports are not only idealistic, but
make economic and commercial sense as well
• It has a potential to empower ALL India children
to collaborate and make us a developed nation

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What is one reason our students need to
Attain this new literacy?
"The need for technologically
literate citizens and workers
increases every year. Skilled
people in the 21st century need
to understand how to use
technology tools. . . These tools
enable people to perform
effectively at work and in their
daily lives. . . "
Learning for the 21st Century, Partnership for 21st Century Skills,
2003, p.10-11

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 Content generation: Line items
• NPTEL phase II / III
• 2. PG Classes
• 3. UG Classes
• 4. Video content digitization, conversion, chunking and dubbing
CEC / IGNOU / NCERT / SIET / OTHERS
• 5. Provision of e-books and e-journals free to the learners
• 6. Standardization of quality assurance of contents & certfi
cation / automation of certification
• 7. Developing suitable pedagogical methods for various classes,
intellectual calibers and research in e-learning
• 8. Development of language converter and translation tool kit

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 NME-ICT will be supported by..
• Renowned institutions would anchor various
activities in their areas of excellence. The Mission
would seek to enhance the standards of
education, in Government as well as in private
colleges. Enlistment of support and cooperation of
States/Union Territories, Institutions and
individual experts would be an integral part of the
Mission.

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 Requirement for funding

• Necessary conditions for a project to be funded by this

• mission:
• I It should be related to education - for research, other funding sources
are available
It should be inter-institutional
• Any material developed through this mission has to be delivered as open
source
It should belong to one of the 18 line items mentioned
• earlier
No funding will be provided for infrastructure development
• Funding for clear deliverables: number of courses, number of faculty
members trained, number of students trained, etc.

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 Visit http://spoken-
tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro
• Ten minute spoken tutorial
• Gives more details of format, where
to submit, presentation details, etc.
• NMEICT invites your proposals

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Service Providers
NME-ICT

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 Administrative structure
NME-ICT
• Administrative structure
Project Approval Board, chaired by the Secretary of MHRD
• I Standing committee, chaired by the Mission Director,
recommends projects
• Review committees
• Mission Director
• Mr. N. K. Sinha, Joint Secretary, Distance
Learning/training
• We must be one of a few countries to have such a high level
position for distance education

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Programme created by Dr.T.V.Rao MD for
awareness on use and possibilities of
NME- ICT to empower the Nation
Email
doctortvrao@gmail.com

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