UGC to start ‘e-Patshala’ for postgraduate studies
25 April 2013 6:55 AM IST
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to develop and distribute e-content for 77 subjects at postgraduate level, throughout the country. This initiative has aptly been named as 'e-PG Patshala'.
UGC chairman, Ved Prakash, said, 'This step has been taken in order to create high-quality, curriculum-based , interactive content in different subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural and mathematical sciences and linguistics and languages'. The material will be made available to both teachers and students in the form of open online courses through a learning management system (LMS) set up at the INFLIBNET centre, as well as through Sakshat Portal. 'The material can be accessed free of charge and can be used by teachers in slum areas to supplement their teaching,’ he said
The project has already been initiated in approximately 37 subjects, and will be started soon in the remaining subjects. Subjects in which content is proposed to be developed include social sciences, adult education, women studies, architecture, nano-science and nano-technology, geology and genetics.
'Such a gigantic task could be accomplished only through a participatory exercise', Ved Prakash has said in a letter to the vice chancellors, seeking contribution from academic experts.
Prakash added, 'UGC has constituted a standing committee, e-PG Pathshala, on e-content creation to monitor and coordinate the activity of content creation in a most effective and efficient manner.’
The project is part of the centrally sponsored scheme and being developed under the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT) of the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD).
UGC chairman, Ved Prakash, said, 'This step has been taken in order to create high-quality, curriculum-based , interactive content in different subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural and mathematical sciences and linguistics and languages'. The material will be made available to both teachers and students in the form of open online courses through a learning management system (LMS) set up at the INFLIBNET centre, as well as through Sakshat Portal. 'The material can be accessed free of charge and can be used by teachers in slum areas to supplement their teaching,’ he said
The project has already been initiated in approximately 37 subjects, and will be started soon in the remaining subjects. Subjects in which content is proposed to be developed include social sciences, adult education, women studies, architecture, nano-science and nano-technology, geology and genetics.
'Such a gigantic task could be accomplished only through a participatory exercise', Ved Prakash has said in a letter to the vice chancellors, seeking contribution from academic experts.
Prakash added, 'UGC has constituted a standing committee, e-PG Pathshala, on e-content creation to monitor and coordinate the activity of content creation in a most effective and efficient manner.’
The project is part of the centrally sponsored scheme and being developed under the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT) of the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD).
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