University Informatics Centre (UIC) Bharathidasan University Information Sources on the Internet for Teaching, Learning and Research University Informatics Centre (UIC) Bharathidasan University

Open Learning, E-resources, Smart Boards, ITEL The current scenario About 36000 Institutions of Higher Education in India 27.5 million students (2% of population) enrolling every year By 2025 - at least 80 million more people seeking higher education (UNESCO) Meeting this new demand through conventional means would require the construction of three universities a week accommodating 40,000 students for the next 12 years. Open Learning, E-resources, Smart Boards, ITEL

Source: middleburyinteractive.com Blended Learning Source: middleburyinteractive.com

Classroom based learning is here to stay Face-to-face learning has a major role to play in education Other components in blended learning are only complementary to classroom-based learning All learning technologies are to help make education more effective Taught - Facilitated

The information Landscape

Advantage “E-Learning” Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Unlimited participation Open access Any time learning

Popular MOOCs https://www.edx.org/ http://alison.com/ https://www.coursera.org/ https://www.udacity.com/ http://www.khanacademy.org/ https://www.udemy.com/ https://p2pu.org/en/pages/about/ https://www.canvas.net/

National Initiatives - iNFRASTRUCTURE National Knowledge Network Edusat http://www.isro.org/scripts/sat_edusat.aspx N-List http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/ National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT) http://www.sakshat.ac.in Shodhganga Project – INFLIBNET http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/

17-Sep-18 Dr. K. Meena, VC, BDU, Trichy

NKN NKN has already connected 934 institutions and aims to connect over 1500 Institutions / Organizations / Laboratories under various categories throughout the country. Countrywide Virtual Classroom Collaborative Research Virtual Library Sharing of Computing Resources Grid Computing e-Governance

NMEICT 17-Sep-18

National Mission on Education through ICT NPTEL Virtual Labs Talk to a teacher Pedagogy project A-View NMEICT NPTEL Videos

Teaching and Learning Resources Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ First and largest single collection of free ebooks. (> than 32000). http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ The Online Book Page by University of Pennsylvania Library, 25000 e-books on different subjects. MIT’s OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

MIT Open Course Ware (OCW)

OCW - Mathematics

Open Michigan Courses

More.. Academic Videos World Lecture Project Academic Earth: (video portal) The Open University’s open learn portal

More….. Resource Name URL Saylor.org is a free and open collection of college level courses. http://www.saylor.org Global Textbook Project http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/ The National Academies Press http://www.nap.edu/ Africa’s open content object repository http://www.oerafrica.org/ Resource Search http://www.opentapestry.com/

BDU and Open Learning Our Initiatives: Knowledge Repository (CKR) : An institutional portal/repository to provide open access to scholarly digital content (launched in 2010 Nov.) Journals, e-books, articles, Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Multimedia Portal (NPTEL Channel) : Video & audio resources Within the campus (via Intranet)

E-Journals (Open Access) Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ There are now 2514 journals in the directory. Currently 747 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 124159 articles are included in the DOAJ service. California University’s Open Access Resources Portal: http://escholarship.org DMOZ directory of open Access journals http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Publications/Journals/Free_Online_Journal s/

E-Journals (Open Access) The Electronic Journals Library http://rzblx1.uni- regensburg.de/ezeit/fl.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=en Offers an effective use of both scientific and academic journals publishing full text articles in the internet. HighWire Press: http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl Largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1010 journals and 4,074,364 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. ePrints of IISc, Banglore http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/ Scholarly publications from IISc’s scientists and Researchers

Other Open Access Journals http://www.bdu.ac.in/infonet/open_access.php

E-Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Shodhganga Project – INFLIBNET http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ A repository of Indian theses (global access to local theses) More than 30,133 + (still counting..) Full Text Theses 159 Universities / Colleges / Research Centres Search by University/Department All Indian Universities are Contributing MoU for uploading and plagiarism detection Insert a picture illustrating a season in your country. Poor global access to Indian research

Shodhganga Project

Shodhganga Project and BDU

ShodhGangotri A Repository of Indian Research in Progress (Abstracts) http://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/ To reveal the trends and directions of research being conducted in Indian universities To avoid duplication of research To enhance collaboration and sharing of resources

Other Indian Repositories Mahatma Gandhi University http://www.mgutheses.org/ Indian Institute of Science http://etd.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ Etheses - A Saurashtra University Library Service http://etheses.saurashtrauniversity.edu/ Dyuthi, Digital Repository of Cochin University of Science and Technology http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/xmlui/ Vidyanidhi Digital Library (University of Mysore) http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/

Global Repositories Poor local access to global research Scholars’ Bank (University of Oregon) - http://libweb.uoregon.edu/ Emory University's Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository - https://etd.library.emory.edu/ EThOS (The British Library) - http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do Pakistan Research Repository - http://eprints.hec.gov.pk/ Poor local access to global research

Global Repositories – Contd. DissOnline (GERMAN NATIONAL LIBRARY) - http://search.dissonline.de/ SUDOC (SUDOC Catalogue) - France Universities - http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/ DART - Europe (DART-Europe E-theses Portal) - http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic- search.php DATAD (Association of African Universities) - http://www.aau.org/datad/

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