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Wake up!

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digitalLEARNING Network
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MJ XavierIndian education system is plagued by a number of ills; out dated curriculum, shortage of teachers, poor infrastructure and lack of research. The system churns out graduates, where the majority of them are unemployable. Fundamentally the education system is caught up in the industrial age while the world has moved on to the information age. The education is still treated as an assembly line system with students joining at a fixed time period in batches and graduating after a certain number of years in the system. We hardly realise that our method of teaching has to change for the Google age students. Even while expanding education, the government has chosen to set up new IIMs and IITs rather than exploit the power of networking and technology. Fundamentally the existing IIMs can easily reach out to two lakh students through the use of technology. We have failed to take advantage of the power of networking using ICT. Institutions are functioning as independent entities without many linkages with the industry. They go to the industry only for placement of their students. Government, on its part has made huge investments in ICT without a clear vision or direction. There is a big disconnect between the government, industry and the institutions. We need to fundamentally build ecosystems for knowledge creation and delivery. There is a ray of hope. NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) has built an ecosystem comprising of IITs, IISc, Google, NASSCOM, TCS, Cognizant and Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) as partners. NPTEL is about to start with certification for three computer science courses — algorithms, data structures and programming languages. While the course is free, a fee will be charged for certification. IIM Ranchi, in part-time Executive MBA program, has already recorded all the class sessions of the past two years and made them available to the new batch of students. With this the institution has managed to cut down the classroom timing by half due to these recorded lectures.

National Knowledge Network (NKN)

NKN is intended to connect all the knowledge and research institutions in the country using high bandwidth / low latency network. Though it is a laudable initiative, it has only met with limited success. IITs and some selected institutions have set-up smart classrooms, which can be accessed by other NKN connected institutions. Typically the best departments and best teachers should become available to the entire country. However, there is no mechanism to ensure that classes and resources are shared across institutions. There are also copyright issues in storing and re-broadcasting these lectures as the Indian teachers tend to use books by western authors. Our teachers should start preparing their own course materials, case studies and exercises. Unfortunately, education is a subject that is handled by many different government agencies leading to confusion and conflict. NKN is under National informatics Centre while MHRD controls the broader educational policies of the country. NKN itself was borne out of collaboration between Office of Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to the Government of India and the National Knowledge Commission (NKC). Industries ministry controls vocational education; Planning commission  has its own education wing; and in addition to all these, we now have the National Skill Development Commission (NSDC). There is no clearidentifiable owner of education in this country. Different agencies can at times work at cross purposes with each other.

NKN has to enhance its reliability. Even NPTEL is not using NKN cloud; but Youtube for content delivery and is considering the use of Edex or Coursera platform for their MOOC initiative. Many private institutions use Amazon cloud for content delivery. NKN needs to wake up and pick up speed if it has to set standards for the rest of the world to follow.

 

Higher Education Many more steps need to be Travelled

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digitalLEARNING Network
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RP Sisodia“Skill development is crucial if we are to reap the benefit of demographic divided,” says RP Sisodia,Joint secretary of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Governmenr of India.

Majority of government programmes are directed towards raising the enrolment ratio in education institutions but we are lagging in quality. How can we balance between quality and quantity?
I think, we need to keep focusing on the expansion of the system since the present Gross Enrolment Ration (GER) is nowhere near either the world average or Asian average. Every country is struggling with these two competing demands of quality and quantity but one cannot say they are replacements or substitutes. One can actually pursue both the goals together.
The expansion should always be accompanied by the quality improvements that are needed. We should not ever think that if we start pursuing the goal of quality then we cannot pursue the objective of increasing enrolment. Since, the fact remain that today only 18 out of 100 eligible age group students are pursuing the higher education and rest are not. That shows that in the longer run in the longer run in the economy, if we don’t increase the GER, we would be churning out unemployable youth who will not have the necessary qualifications or intellectual ability to manage or negotiate their lives.
Quality is a continuous process.Quality cannot be measured in the absolute terms rather it shall be measured in the relative terms. We cannot say that we should get the highest quality for each institution but we must ensure basic threshold of quality for every institutions so that we are able to assure minimum learning environment for all the students.
Quality is also pyramidical in nature.You cannot think of reaching to the top without having a solid base. The goals such as access, expansion and inclusion must be pursued along with assuring minimum quality standards.
In terms of high quality, we have globally reputed institutions, regardless of how they are rated or ranked. It is the fact that they can compete with any good institutions in the world. In fact the graduates coming out of these institutes are readily globally employable. It is not that we do not have quality but what we are trying to say that let us ensure minimum threshold of quality for each and every student and institution.

The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) of SC and ST in higher education has substantially gone down to 7.4 percent and 2.9 percent respectively; it means we are not keeping the national ommitment made to them, why is it so?
When it comes to the enrolment of the deprived sections, the problem is of supply and demand  gap. Quality education is not available in convenient reach of students, predominantly in tribal area. Even if they are available they are of sub standard quality. There is a supply side issue that we need address by creating more institutes in the areas that are predominantly populated by the deprived section that includes minority. Along with SC and ST, the minority GER is also very less.
So we need to first address the supply gap. Then there is a demand problem also due to low or no paying capacity of the people. Even if we waive off tuition fee, there are other expenses such as travelling expenses, pocket expenses that have to be taken into account. The NSSO survey says that 21 percent of these students do not pursue higher education only because they don’t have financial capacity to pursue higher education. The paying capacity has to be enhanced. It can be enhanced by two ways, by giving free education, scholarships,fellowships and enable them to obtain education loans. By filling these two gaps of supply and demand, they can be brought at par with the GER of others, else it will not happen.

To reap the benefit of population dividend, the role of educationbecomes very important in channelising the energy of youth in the right direction. Where do ou see us, are we on right track or do we need to change the gear?

We need to ensure that not only more people pursue the higher education but also get the required skills. Skill development is a big challenge to us. If we are able to overcome this challenge then 500 million people joining by 2022 will be skilled, then nothing can stop India’s progress

 I believe, at times, we do need to change the gear also. As per recent survey, everyyear 13 million people are joining the workforce. Out of that only two percent are formally skilled or trained. In  the last five years employment generation has declined. Only 1.25 million jobs were added between 2004-05 to 2009-10. It means around 60 million had joined in five years but only 1.25 percent had got the formal employment in the formal sector. Now if you do not bridge this gap then this dividend can become nightmare also. We need to ensure that not only more people pursue the higher education but also get the required skills. Skill development is a big challenge to us. If we are able to overcome this challenge then 500 million people joining by 2022 will be skilled, then nothing can stop India’s progress.
In Informal sector, a lot of jobs have been created but they are again looking at skilled manpower.The bigger challenge is that how we assess the demand of skills in the market. How do we impart the relevant job skills to the people, how do we reorient our entire vocational and skill education sector by integrating it into higher education on one hand and by ensuring that it is auto updated and completely in sync with market demand. If we are able to address these challenges appropriately,then definitely our youth will be our strength.

How has been your experience as an IAS officer so far?
My experience has been good. While working in Andhra Pradesh, I held several positions including that of district collector. I also got an opportunity to work as Secretary, The Andhra Pradesh Board of Intermediate Education, for three years and there I realised that there was a lot of scope for improvement in higher education sector and that really made me curious and interested in education sector. I am happy with what I have been able to do so far but I feel there is a lot more to be done.

Cyberfort Technologies Securing the Virtual World

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digitalLEARNING Network
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Amit Kumar

By Amit Kumar, President, Cyberfort Technologies and MD, Dr A Kumar Institute of Education
IT is one of the most emerging sectorsin modern economic world. Every company needs ITprofessionals for ensuring proper security of its data. After seeing recent cyber- attacks, companies are hiring more security engineers and analysts than ever before. It seems that Cyber Security is on the verge of becoming the most demanded IT Skill globally. Cyberfort Technologies is a training and consulting firm which specialises in Cyber Security. It is a part of AKIE and is ISO 9001:2008 as well as ISO 27001:2005 certified. It is also an accredited member of IADL UK and is working towards excellence and eminence without any compromise.
Cyberfort Technologies offers niche and hi-tech certification courseware globally via virtual and instructor led teaching modules. The organisation has strategic alliances with Mahatma Gandhi University, India (UGC-AICTEDEC approved) and EC-Council (world’s largest certification body for cyber security professionals) for imparting high quality postgraduate and professional certifications in Ethical Hacking and Information Security. Cyberfort Technologies aspires to develop a global human resource pool of responsible professionals in leadership roles in Information Security. It also seeks to impart quality Information Security programmes that would equip information security professionals with the necessary tools and education to help them avert cyber terrorism, cyber-crimes, cyber espionage and if the need arises, cyber wars.

The need for cyber security experts spans all industries, but according to industry experts thousands of job openings have gone unfilled because there are not enough people to fill them

The Opportunities
The need for cyber security experts spans all industries, from financial services, manufacturing and utilities to healthcare, services and retail. Industry experts say that thousands of job openings have gone unfilled because there are not enough people to fill them. In India, Wipro, Dell, Reliance, Google, Accenture, IBM and  Infosys are some organisations hiring Cyber Security professionals at a large asis. IT Secretary, J Satyanarayana says “We need more than Five lakh professionals to protect our cyber space. We only have a small fraction of this.”

Current training programmes
• Two-year Integrated MBA programme in Cyber Security in collaboration with MGU and EC-Council spread in four semesters
• Six month diploma in Cyber Security from Cyberfort Technologies, diploma awarded from IADL, UK and CEH from EC-Council, USA
• One month certificate course in Cyber Security from IADL, UK and EC-Council, USA
• Cyberfort Technologies also offers six months training in information security for amateurs and professionals

Remuneration
The remuneration for Cyber Security professionals is also very good. A beginner can expect a pay package between 3-6 lakhs per  annum. After gaining some experience, a Cyber Security professional can draw up to 30 lakhs based on the job role. Generally, the salary gets doubled within two years as there is a huge demand of skilled manpower in this sector.


 

 

 

INNOVATION BY ENGINEERING INSTITUTE

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digitalLEARNING Network
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Bharathi Educational Society
Organisation: Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology
Website: www.cbit.edu.in
Implementing Agency: Jamnabai Narsee School
Objective: To develop India by providing quality education along with requisite personality traits
Description: Establishing various colleges and institutes and providing quality education to the students. Following simple living and high thinking philosophy to develop India
Target Group: Rural Area Region People

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Programmes at IIGN
Organisation: Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN)
Website: www.iitgn.ac.in
Description: A five-week Foundation Programme for First Year B Tech Students. The programme has no formal classroom teaching for first five weeks. Instead there are structured activities under various topics like social awareness, ethics and values, creativity, Fine Arts, physical activities, team work and communication.
Objective: The foundation programme aims at nurturing creativity, communication skills, ethics, teamwork, social engagement and physical fitness among the students.
Target Group: UG and PG students
Achievements:
• Programme helps the students to get de-stressed
• Areas of concern can be addressed timely and talented students are encouraged
to pursue their talents enthusiastically
• Project based education encourages the students to solve socital problem

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Technology Integrated Education
Organisation: Dr K N Modi University
Website: www.dknmu.org
Objective: Dr K N Modi University is driven by singular focus on the value of open rigorous and intense inquiry
Description: Dr K N Modi University is dedicated for betterment of teaching facilities through the use of modern technologies. DKNMU uses computer supported synchronous and asynchronous learning approaches in which learning takes place via video interaction, live chat and time delayed communication tools.
Target Group: Students
Achievements:
• DKNMU effectively applies technology in the curriculum and throughout the course
• One major achievement of incorporating technology into instruction is to avoid a one-sizefits- all approach to learning
• Create opportunities for students to access technology outside of the classroom and university

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Enterprise Knowledge Management
Organisation: KLE Society’s BV Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology
Website: www.bvb.edu
Implementing Agency: Dassault Systemes India Pvt Ltd
Objective: To promote research and innovation in undergraduate engineering education, which will enable the engineering graduates to play a vital role in the socioeconomic development
Description: KLE Society’s BV Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology was established in the year 1947 in Hubli. To grow innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem in Hubli, a number of academic initiatives are introduced in the undergraduate education. These initiatives have established a curriculum thread in the form of a course on social innovation, engineering design, mini-projects and capstone projects.
Target Group: Students of engineering at BVBCET, Hubli
Achievements:
• 200 socially-relevant projects successfully completed by the students
• Recognised by ‘International Institute for Developing Engineering Academics
(IIDEA)’, USA as OBE (outcome based education) trainers
• Multi-Disciplinary form of Engineering Education is becoming a reality

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Practice School
Organisation: K L University
Website: www.kluniversity.in
Objective: Make Students Tailor Made for industries through Six months Internship and evaluation based on their learnt skills and technologies, which is a supplement to the BTech (UG- Engineering degree) project work as is practice in all other Engineering Colleges in India
Description: Practice School is an innovative method started by K L University for its graduating engineering students to make them benefited from Industrial trends and practices while their Under Graduation (UG) is ongoing
Target Group: Under Graduate (UG) Engineering Students
Achievements:
• Industrial exposure
• Hands on training
• Managerial skills

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Building Innovation and Research Capability
Organisation: ITM University
Website: www.itmindia.edu
Objective: ITM University Gurgaon aims to bring a strong research and innovation capability in the University and be known and distinguished by original research and innovative outcomes which would contribute to the larger good of the industry and society
Description: Innovation is one of the crucial distinguishing features at ITM University. The university is innovative due to its
small size, a niche University of 3000 students, being responsive to new ideas, and most important possess a high intellectual capital in terms of faculty
Target Group: Students, industry, and society
Achievements:
• HT Campus declared ITM University as winner in the Excellence in the Engineering category in National Capital Region in 2013
• ITM University figured amongst the niche group of IITs and IIMs and was rated at par with IITs in logistics research in India in a white paper by top German technical universities in Germany

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Diya cell
Organisation: Vidhyapeeth Institute of Science and Technology
Website: www.vistbpl.org
Objective: To educate and prepare multiple handicapped children to live within the community, having achieved three-fold independence – physical, social and financial to the best of their abilities
Description: The students are motivated for teaching and helping the needful children who are actually not able to study himself. Students visit the government handicapped Bal Ashram and teach them. They also help the poor students by providing the scholarships.
Target Group: 5 to 21 years
Achievements:
• Admitted several students and providing them free education
• During extra classes, senior students teach junior students in the guideline of faculties, which helps the seniors for preparation of
competitive exams.

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Innovation in Energy
Organisation: SAL Institute of Technology & Engineering Research
Website: www.sal.edu.in
Objective: The main objective behind all this invention is to conserve the energy and try to develop extra energy from the  surrounding environment
Description: A novel speed breaker will utilise the speed and weight of the moving vehicles to generate electricity. – A novel drip irrigation system will save water and very much economical in compare to current drip irrigation system. A novel water power clock will replace all the clocks that run on cell, because the present invention will run the clock with the help of water.
Achievements:
• Received various awards
• All the invention are inspected by government and appreciated by the local people

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Automated Classrooms
Organisation: Maharaja College of Engineering
Website: www.maharajacolleges.org
Objective: The institute is set-up with the objective of providing quality technical education while sensitising students towards the needs of the society
Description: The education programme of the institute is designed to respond to the intellectual capital requirement of business and industry. The institute’s mandate is to create technology enabled management solutions for nation building. Maharaja College of Engineering creates an effective blend of activities and interactive multimedia demonstrations to make learning more engaging and fun
Target Group: Students
Achievements:
• Education Excellence Award 2012
• Best Citizens of India Award 2012
• Rating B++ By ICRA
• Indian Leadership Award in Education Excellence 2011

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VOCAT IONAL EDUCAT ION AND TRAINING

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digitalLEARNING Network
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Vocational Education in Schools
Organisation: IndiaCan Education Pvt Ltd
Website: www.indiacan.com
Objective: To include vocational education in school education for the dual purpose of enhancing employability for students
Description: The Government of Assam in Association with IndiaCan and Pearson Education selected a few schools to take part in a pilot project to roll out vocational education in government schools. The project is committed to introducing National Vocational Education Qualifications Framework, a national program to establish standards and qualifications for skills trainings.
Target Group: Secondary students enrolled in government Schools
Achievements:
• Complete cooperation from parents to hold sessions after school hours
• 96 percent of total grade IX students enrolled for the sessions to be held after school hours
• 93 percent students attended sessions regularly with attendance averaging around 80 percent
• A mere 0.05 percent of drop outs with letters from parents stating the reason for dropping out

                                                                        Click here to read more details about this initiative

Masterconnet
Organisation: IACM SmartLearn Ltd.
Website: www.iacm-india.com
Objective: Need to establish improved technical training institute for these students offering programs that address skills, remedial education and employable IT training.
Description: IACM was founded with a mission to build a “learning society” to produce versatile and resourceful professionals. In 1999, IACM became the first company to announce the International Certifications in combo packages at affordable price.
Target Group: 12th pass students from tier-2, tier-3 cities, rural BPL, underprivileged and economically weaker section of the society.
Achievements:
• More than 50000 students are trained and placed.
• First Skill Champion of India Award, Honour Roll 2012 awarded by LeapVaul, FICCI on Skill Development & Vocational Training.
• IACM tops Score Card-Avaya Global Connect Award 2007 for innovation & placement cell performance.

                                                                     Click here to read more details about this initiative

Mobile Vocational Education
Organisation: AMMACHI Labs (Amrita Multi Modal Applications Using Computer Human Interaction)
Website: www2.amrita.edu/centers/ammachi/
Objective: To deliver high quality Computerised Vocational Education and Training (cVET) and Life Enrichment Education (LEE) to the economically marginalised sections
Description: AMMACHI Labs has developed Mobile Vocational Education – MoVE, which employs a classroom on wheels, powered by solar panels, to provide technology enhanced vocational education using computers to geographically diverse areas.
Target Group: Illiterate or semi-literate women living below the poverty line
Achievements:
• Developed high quality computerised vocational education and training courses in extremely remote areas
• Conducted successful deployments in 35 villages
• Reduced dependence on trainers by deploying fully computerised VET & LEE courses

                                                                          Click here to read more details about this initiative

Training Programmes for Rural Youth
Organisation: IIET
Website: www.iiet.net
Objective: To provide placements to all candidates with the attention on unemployed rural youth
Description: Integrated Institute of Education Technology is committed to provide the highest quality services to our customers to satisfy their needs and expectations of quality, reliability. The institute ensures this through providing quality education and training to unemployed youth.
Target Group: Unemployed rural youth
Achievements:
• Completed 500 villages in IT Training for youth
• Completed 1,00,000 youth under software courses
• Completed 50,000 youth under Hardware course
• Completed 10,000 youth under teaching skills
• Completed 5,000 youth under Hotel Management course

                                                                       Click here to read more details about this initiative

Employability Enhancement
Organisation: Prabhaav Learning Pvt Ltd
Website: www.prabhaav.com
Implementing Agency: ITM University
Objective: Prabhaav works for crime free, intellectually strong and employable India
Description: Prabhaav works for value based education and skill development. It works for women empowerment. It has recently started gender sensitisation workshops and effective parenting. Most of the projects are less or zero profit making.
Target Group: Students in colleges and universities
Achievements:
• Students are groomed
• Students are job ready
• Placed the underprivileged students
• Received NABET accreditation
                                                                          Click here to read more details about this initiative

Vocational Education and Training Initiatives
Organisation: AISECT
Website: www.aisect.org
Objective: AISECT’s objective is to reach out to the remotest corner of India and promote skill based training to empower people, generate employment for the youth and unfold entrepreneurship based initiatives to create an inclusive society
Description: AISECT has imparted training to over 1.2 million students in semi-urban and rural areas as well as generated over 10,000 rural entrepreneurs. The organisation is listed in the World Bank-IIM(A) joint study as one of the most successful initiatives on Information & Computer Technology (ICT) for rural development.
Target Group: People from rural and semi-urban areas
Achievements:
• The AISECT centres are located at the district, block and panchayat level and not in the larger cities or metros. The organisation focuses on all categories of people from the community
• AISECT has set-up Dr CV Raman University and AISECT University. The organisation has launched ‘aisectonline.com’ to empower students with anywhere, anytime accessibility
• AISECT has pioneered various initiatives to generate awareness about the IT-based education

                                                                        Click here to read more details about this initiative

The eLearning Portal
Organisation: GurukulOnline Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd
Website: www.gols.in
Objective: To provide high quality education with the best faculties at highly affordable fees
Description: GOLS provides elearning coaching for all the streams of ICSI ie foundation, executive and professional eLearning coaching and also provides all the mandatory trainings required to be completed by students of the ICSI.
Achievements:
• Students are standing in the merit list and hundreds of students are passing with flying colors
• Provided an affordable and high quality option to coaching classes who are charging exorbitant fees and providing many a time shoddy quality of education
• Helping students to complete the mandatory trainings of the ICSI

                                                                          Click here to read more details about this initiative

Trained Leaders
Organisation: YMCA College of Physical Education
Website: www.ymcacollegeofphysicaleducation.edu.in
Implementing Agency: National Council of YMCAs of India
Objective: The basic objective was to fulfill the need for trained leaders in the field of Health, Physical  ducation, Sports and Recreation
Description: The YMCA College of Physical Education offers degrees at doctoral, post graduate, under graduate and diploma levels. A degree course on Bachelor of Mobility Science focused on disabled was introduced in 2006-07. It is recognised by the Rehabilitation Council of India.
Target Group: Students and local community
Achievements:
• The first Indian Olympic team was trained in the College grounds and led by the first Principal of the College Mr Buck, to the Paris Olympics in 1924
• Accredited with “A” Grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, confirming the quality of education
• Enabled and encouraged rural and economically weaker sections of the community to join this premier College. Around 90 percent students belong to this category

                                                                           Click here to read more details about this initiative

USE OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION

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Promoting Collaborative and Active Learning
Organisation: NIIT
Website: www.niitnguru.com
Objective: To bridge the gap between how students learn in school and revise at home
Description: Solution delivers the video applications to run anytime, anywhere. Online test and quiz help access the learning at a click. Parents can play as a guide and can be the equal stake holder.
Target Group: School, students, teachers and parents
Achievements:
• Anytime anywhere learning
• 24/7 e-Learning for student, Assessment and performance review
• Online Assignment and project report submission
• Collaborative and active learning
• Direct connect between school, students and parents

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Empowerment of Indian Youth
Organisation: Datawind
Website: www.datawind.com
Objective: To increase Information Technology penetration Pan India through affordable and easily accessible PC Tablet and empower Indian youth by spreading knowledge and skill-set development initiatives pre-loaded within the Tablet
Description: Datawind is best known for making world’s cheapest PC Tablet with the mission to offer a gamut of educational services such as free e-books, competitive exam preparation tools and skill-set development courses to encourage and empower Indian youth with a piece of hardware – easily affordable and accessible to all.
Target Group: People of 5 to 50 years of age
Achievements:
• Chosen by Government of India to make Aakash Tablet
• Won digitalLEARNING Shiksha Ratn Award
• Project Leader listed among Forbes 15 Classroom Education Revolutionaries
• UK’s most innovative mobile company 2012.
• Showcased at United Nations with endorsement from UN Secretary General. Ban Ki Moon

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Wiziq Virtual Classroom Apps
Organisation: authorGEN Technologies Private Limited
Website: www.wiziq.com
Objective: The objective of launching these apps is to enable just in time learning
Description: WizIQ Virtual Classroom apps for iPads and Android tablets have been specially designed for students giving them anytime, anywhere access to the WizIQ Virtual Classroom. With this app, students no longer have to remain at home waiting for class to start or haul around a laptop in order to be mobile.
Target Group: Teachers, Students
Achievements:
• More than 8000 classes have been conducted on WizIQ
• More than 9000 students attended classes using WizIQ app for iPads and android tablets

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Innovation in Language(s) Education

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digitalLEARNING Network
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Mangoreader:Brings Books to Life
Organisation: Mangosense pvt ltd
Website: www.mangoreader.com
Objective: MangoReader aims to bring books to life by making them interactive, engaging and fun, using videos, quizzes, games,  animation, audios, collaboration, sharing, discussions and providing a better learning experience. We want to build an ecosystem where publishers, authors, educators, instructors and content curators can come together and build better content collaboratively focusing on their strengths. This provides better value proposition for students as they get better learning material and through the platform, can now engage with content, discuss and collaborate with each other and experience the real world learning through an online platform
Description: With MangoReader – the vision is to bring books to life by making them interactive, engaging and fun, using videos, quizzes, games, animation, audios, collaboration, sharing, discussions and providing a better learning experience.
Target Group: Kids and students
Achievements:
• Improved understanding of language
• Higher time spend learning
• Improved engagement

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Language Learning Labs
Organisation: Sri Guru Harkrishan Sr Sec Public School, Amritsar
Website: www.sghpsgtroad.com
Objective: To make education system more clearly accountable for the funding it receives
Description: Innovation in language education has become a major growth area in recent years. It includes all the four skills of a language that is listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In addition, increasing student engagement, voice thread motivates students to express themselves in the target language and collaborate with each other in a comfortable setting
Target Group: Up to 1500 people
Achievements:
• To increase language awareness
• Effective and efficient communication
• Activating self discovering

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Enabling Correct Pronunciations Across Cultures
Organisation: School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Website: www.usm.my
Objective: To design and develop an interactive multimedia student-cantered learning management system to support learning of correct pronunciation among non-native English speakers
Description: Epronounce project explored the innovative use of phonetic symbols with full human face gestures to help non-native English speakers acquire correct pronunciation as they tend to carry the phonological processes of their mother tongue to the pronunciation of English language.
Target Group: Elementary and primary school students
Achievements:
• Systematically developed a repository of more than 1,500 sample word pronunciation systematically following the syllable-word positions, and open and closed syllable structures
• Successfully designed and developed interactive record and play features with novel online submission for every individual recorded pronunciation

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Tablet Based English Langauge Lab
Organisation: Liqvid eLearning Services Pvt Ltd
Website: www.liqvid.com
Objective: To enhance English communication skills especially spoken English skills of school students
Description: The tablet based portable English language Lab is a trolley that comes with centralised charging, in-built Wi-Fi device
and can house up to 40 tablets loaded with English language content. There is no investment needed for a physical space for classroom/lab and an institute can run a complete day’s class without any interruption, even in the absence of electricity.
Target Group: Schools
Achievements:
• Enables less confident speakers to express uninhibitedly in front of fellow learners
• Allows for creation of user generated videos that can be shared for immediate and active feedback in the classroom

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Learning Values Through Tamil Songs
Organisation: Gateway The Complete School
Website: www.gatewaytheschool.in
Objective: To inculcate among students a sense of pride in learning Tamil and also values of life and various forms of learning language through songs of the past and present film music
Description: To inculcate the values of life various Tamil movie songs were gathered from the late 1940?s till date of all the songs that carry values for life and for learning school based particularly IGCSE based skills for language development
Target Group: Children in the age group of 8 to 15
Achievements:
• Children easily remembered the objectives of learning values,
• Children score well in tests using these tools

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Innovation in English Language Education
Organisation: Jamnabai Narsee School
Website: www.jns.ac.in
Objective: To develop and integrate the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. To develop the skill of communication through written correspondence
Description: The English department focuses on inculcating well defined linguistic skills by providing an atmosphere conducive to creative thinking and learning. The teaching methodologies used in the classrooms are innovative, thought provoking and instill in the students an insatiable thirst for knowledge. An array of interesting activities and evaluation worksheets are prepared to test the  students speaking, reading, writing, listening and comprehension skills.
Target Group: Students of Grade 5 to 12
Achievements:
• Concept formation and awearness of English education
• Variety in classroom stimuli

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Innovations in Hindi Curriculum
Organisation: The Cathedral and John Connon School
Website: www.cathedral-school.com
Objective: The curriculum gives a holistic experience of learning to the children
Description: The children are taught to read using the phrasing technique. The “10 minute daily grammar” is conducted to teach grammatical concepts and generate. The aural curriculum includes audio-visual resources – edited Bollywood songs, contemporary
poetry and short Hindi films. The creative writing curriculum is divided into creative thinking and creative writing.
Target Group: Children of age 7 – 9 years
Achievements:
• Children have expressed their eagerness to participate in activities conducted in Hindi, be it Quiz, discussions, skits, word games, etc
• The Hindi teachers have been able to adapt to the new methods and handling a variety of teaching material, given support as and when needed

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INNOVATION IN TEACHING PEDAGOGY

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Hole-in-the-Wall Learning Station

Organisation: Hole-in-the-wall Education Limited (HiWEL)
Website: www.hole-in-the-wall.com
Objective:
The main objective of HiWEL is to bridge the digital divide by offering exciting and effective education and learning experiences through innovative technologies to the underserved groups
Description: HiWEL established its pedagogical innovations as Hole-in-the-wall Learning Station (LS), to realise its vision of using technology as a tool for empowerment by providing free and unrestricted computer access and educational content to children in open unsupervised settings. HiWEL is committed to the mission of bridging the digital divide by offering exciting and effective education and learning experiences to the underserved groups.
Target Group: Children in the age group of 6-14 years
Achievements:
• HiWEL has delivered over 600 Learning Stations
• The recipient of 10 awards in total, the latest ones being; e-India 2009 – Best Civil
society/Development agency digitalLEARNING initiative -2009 by CSDMS

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The Hands-on Way to Learn Maths

Organisation: Next Education India Pvt Ltd
Website: www.nexteducation.in
Implementing Agency: Next Education India Pvt Ltd
Objective: To offer a vehicle to train students to think, analyse and articulate logically
Description: MathsLab is an innovative platform where multiple teaching and learning aids are available for teachers to explain the various abstract Mathematical concepts and thereby allowing students to develop deep insights of the concepts.Based on the ideology of Learn – Analyse – Build, our MathsLab features pedagogically appropriate content, where students can learn through activities, hands-on models and simulations to gain holistic understanding.
Target Group: K-10 students
Achievements: It has been awarded the prestigious eINDIA K-12 Public Choice Award for its Maths lab in the Interactive Solution Provider category at the eINDIA conference 2012

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Dual Training System

Organisation: Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd
Website: www.volkswagen.co.in
Implementing Agency: Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd
Objective: To develop students in the niche trade and makes them employable by the automotive industry
Description: Volkswagen India has adopted three-year German Dual System in Mechatronics first time in India for vocational training, which imparts theoretical and practical exposure to the trainees. Volkswagen in Germany is contributing for decades in such Dual System German Dual System is also built up with an effective progress monitoring evaluation system, which ensures whether the relevant learning took place or not at the assigned places and assessed through the feedback form.
Target Group: Students of 12th preferably socio-economically poor students from the nearby villages
Achievements:
• Tremendous response and acceptance from everyone
• Recognition received from DVET,Maharashtra Government and NCVT, GoI

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Blended Model of Learning and TrainingOrganisation: Simplilearn Solutions Pvt Ltd
Website: www.simplilearn.com
Objective: To consistently provide best in class quality education to working professionals via robust technology platform with a focus to achieve 100 percent customer delight
Description: With study centers across the globe, Simplilearn.com offers over 50 certification courses in Project Management, IT Services Management, IT Security Management, Quality Management, Financial Management, and Technology Certification.
Target Group: Working professionals
Achievements:
• Introduced blended model of learning to the certification training industry
• Till date Simplilearn has trained 50000 aspirants across 145+ countries 

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Hands-on Learning

Organisation: Mexus Education Pvt Ltd
Website: www.mexuseducation.com
Objective: To introduce basic creative thinking and problem solving skills in students for any situation
Description: iKen D&T Lab is an innovation that facilitates schools with the best way of getting students to learn science by testing out scientific theories in a practical space with experiments,problem solving and project based activities being the crux of learning. Complementing the existing school lab, the iKen D&T Lab is a perfect education supplement that provides student a practical learning experience through hands-on activities in science and technology.
Target Group: Schools from class 4 to 9
Achievements:
• Successfully running D&T Labs in more than 80 schools,covering all parts of India
• Students from D&T lab are coming out with their own inventions such as Rain Water Harvesting model”, Rocket Launcher, Solar Powered Flour Mill

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e-CAMPUS Initiative

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Online Counseling System for Engineering
Organisation: Manipal University
Website: www.manipal.edu
Objective: To bring transparency in admission process and seamless counseling process across multiple
counseling centers
Description: Online counseling is for the students to take admission for engineering at one of the three
Manipal Group Universities namely Manipal University, Manipal University, Jaipur and Manipal University,
Sikkim. Online counseling takes place across four venues: Manipal, Bangalore, Majitar (Sikkim)
and Jaipur
Target Group: Students across India and eligible NRIs engineering aspirants
Achievements:
• User will have single view of the process which will also ensure Transparency in admission process
• Highly reliable with data replication spanning multiple cities

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Educating Women
Organisation: Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women’s University
Website: www.jvwomensuniv.com
Objective: To amalgamate IT tool in academics like admission, teaching, mentoring, examination and library to non academics like finance, hostel and security
Description: Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women’s University has gained approval of statutory bodies like UGC, PCI, BCI, COA, DEC, etc. University provides authorised certifications of IBM, Microsoft, RCSA. University has training tie ups with NIIT, Purple Leap and Placements tie-ups with Monster, HT Shine and also enjoys membership of FICCI, CII, ICCI, ASSOCHAM, NEN,ACU, IEE, Rotary International and many other social
organizations
Target Group: Uneducated Women
Achievements: Won Women Education and Livelihood (WEAL) Award and B School Leadership Award by Dainink Bhasker
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Examination Information System

Organisation: FTK-Centre for Information Technology
Website: jmi.ac.in
Implementing Agency: Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University)
Objective: It is very effective in quantifying the work loads, bringing accountability, transparency and efficiency in an Institution. It minimises the time required for declaration of exam results. It is cloud-based and can be accessed from anywhere. The system serves as an effective model that can be replicated by any educational Institution
Description: The Examination Information System (EIS) being presented in Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi is a unique and innovative modulem, which is also part of the University ERP. EIS addresses all issues related to the examination. The system provides timely alerts to users through SMS/email and also supports synchronous communication between online users.
Target Group: University/college teachers including evaluators, examiners, tabulators /administrators, students/employers/general public
Achievements:
• Successful preparation and declaration of semester results of all PG courses
• Successful implementation of the system for all UG / Diploma / Certificate
• A number of University processes related to examination were re-engineered

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Active Learning

Organisation: Gujarat Technological University
Website: www.gtu.ac.in
Objective: To focus on motivating faculties to develop innovative, animated, digitised course ware using multimedia techniques like Power Point Slides,preparing Videos, small animations, pictures, etc for better understanding of the subject
Description: The Activ(e)- Learning project, was initiated by the Vice Chancellor, Dr Akshai Aggarwal keeping in mind the changes that need to be implemented in the traditional chalk-talk method of teaching
Target Group: Students
Achievements:
• Within a span of 10 months, GTU, ALCE has been successful in content creation for all the targeted subjects
• Under ALCE GTU has received almost 20,000 graphical animated presentations from below mentioned 15 affiliated colleges e-CAMPUS initiative
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e-school INITIATIVE

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Blended Model of Learning and Training
Organisation: DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur
Website: www.davcsp.org
Objective: To empower the students by providing e-study materials to them, and to cater to the need of the 21st century learners all the teachers are made proficient in IT – enabled teaching through orientations and workshops on regular intervals
Description: Under this initiative, the students use Core i3 Systems with LAN connection. They prepare and present PPTs on different concepts. Subject teachers prepare PPT and have Audio-visual classes to introduce new concepts. Regular online courses are taken by them to keep themselves upgraded.
Target Group: Students, teachers, staffs and parents
Achievements:
• Teaching-Learning process became interactive, interesting
and vibrant
• Go Green Environment with limited paper works

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Georgean e-School Initiative

Organisation: St George’s School
Website: www.sgs.edu.in
Objective: To bring about effective, diagnostic and remedial learning through interesting e-tools providing opportunities to the students to improve upon their domain knowledge and aid in self assessment
Target Group: Students, teaching staff and their families
Description: St George’s school organises and integrates technological resources to ensure effective learning. Students are able to gain knowledge through attractive visual and audio representation of each topic that increases the attention span of students. e-Learning activities have aided in building investigative acumen of the students, making them high quality global learners.
Achievements:
• The school has received global training award – ‘Golden Peacock National Training Award for 2011’
• The classrooms have become more interesting, techno-savvy and innovative

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e-Initiatives at Greenwood
Organisation: Greenwood Public School
Website: www.greenwoodindia.org
Description: This initiative includes ICR Classrooms, NIIT Nguru IT Wizard, Educomp Smart Classes, English Language Lab, e-Library.
Objective: To sharpen up students with latest technologies
Target Group: From Classes V – XII

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Affordable Education at Unexplored Rural Areas
Organisation: Calorx Public School
Website: www.cps.calorx.org
Implementing Agency: Calorx education and research foundation
Objective: Development of the children, and creating national assets and global citizens through strong values of dedication, devotion and compassion
Description: Calorx Public School, Rajula District, Amreli was started on 26th June 2010 from Nursery to Class V to provide NCERT syllabus in English Medium education to the children of Rajula which is growing as Port City in Saurastra region of Gujarat. Today the school is up to class VIII and each and every class is equipped with ‘smart class’ where syllabus mapped lesson plan, teaching aid, CCE testing are provided.
Target Group: All the areas where English education is not available
Achievements:
• Calorx is first choice
• Provided affordable English medium CBSE education
• Catered to far flung villages
• Successfully designed and developed interactive record and play features with novel online submission for every individual recorded pronunciation

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e-School Programme
Organisation: Doon Public School
Website: www.doonpublicschool.in
Objective: To enable the students to devote complete attention towards the concepts by making learning more interactive and
to bring innovations in teaching
Description: Starting with the digital library, the school has 15000 books uploaded in the computers. It includes the latest
Encyclopedia, talking dictionary and thesaurus. Through talking dictionary, the students understand the meanings and pronunciation of the words. Digital library creates an augmented learning environment where technology is used to aim at maximising the child’s participation in the learning process
Target Group: Students of pre-primary to class 12, teachers and parents
Achievements:
• Students learn in a self directed way
• Our initiative to introduce the digital facilities in the school for education has enabled us to win the ‘Best ICT Laboratory’ in school- Digital Learning School Education for the year 2010

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Online Interactive Virtual School Portal
Organisation: Dr Kedar Nath Modi Foundation
Website: www.knmodifoundation.com
Implementing Agency: Super Infosoft Pvt Ltd
Objective: To make the students learn to use latest technologies of using the PCs, Laptops and Tablets for effective learning purposes and be abreast with technological advancements
Description: SIS’s Online Interactive Virtual School Portal initiative is taken to make teaching /learning captivating in the classroom delivery system to make the lessons innovative and enjoyable for enabling learning.
Target Group: Children from the age of 5 to 19 years
Achievements:
• Students who did not like to do home work, now look forward to doing that
• This system of teaching has helped the students to remember lessons easily as its always easy to remember what you have seen
• Teachers find this easy and effective as definitely this system is better than read out of book system

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Advancement in Information Technology
Organisation: Holy Heart Presidency School
Website: www.holyheartschools.org
Objective: To develop a powerful medium of formal and informal learning environment which will empower, those who encounter difficulties in traditional learning situations
Description: The school has taken a keen initiative in implementing the project of advancement in Information Technology. Around 90 classrooms have been provided with the facility of Educomp Smart Class system. The teachers are utilising the latest educational strategies in order to update the students with the latest learning concepts.
Target Group: School children of age from 2 to 18 years
Achievements:
• digitalLEARNING Shiksha Ratan Award 2013 by State Government of Punjab
• Students and teachers being updated with the latest education system
• Improvement in board results by leaps and bounds
• Variety in classroom stimuli
• Outreach programme to initiate awearness of English education

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Technology Aided Lessons
Organisation: Oakridge International School, Newton Campus
Website: www.oakridge.in
Objective: The basic objective of this is to cater to the needs of this generation and facilitate deeper learning and understanding
Description: As the e-school initiative states that e-Schools are rich in technology and takes advantage of the modern innovations to ensure that children get the best education possible. Oakridge International School, Newton Campus, involves all stakeholders to be a part of the technology initiative. This year, it has taken a leap by making the classrooms, aided with projectors. Students are given technology aided lessons.
Target Group: Students from Pre-primary to Grade 6
Achievements:
• Various school connects, help students to learn collaboratively
• Increases thinking skills, creativity and boosts confidence

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Étude-An Initiative for e-Learning
Organisation: Sir Padampat Singhania Education Centre
Website: www.spsec.co.in
Objective: Liberating the minds of students, thus collaborative learning along with new innovative teaching methods is the hallmark of our institution
Description: The school introduced the project ‘é-tude’, an e-Learning based programme to incorporate technical knowledge in their day to day life so as to lead the world in scientific and technical race. The students have carved a niche for them by energetically participating in different national and international competitions.
Target Group: Students
Achievements:
• Computer based testing (CBT) and on demand test (OTE) schemes for students
• The annual techno-fest ‘TECHNIKA’ and a Mega Science Festival “GENESIS” generate a lot of interest in technology, innovations and robotics

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