1. Modernizing And Enhancing Indian E-Learning Educational Strategies (MEILES)
Kiran G.R.

2. Source: www.populationpyramid.net/india/2016
Second most populous country in the world
approx. 1.3 billion
One of the fastest growing economy
7th largest economy by nominal GDP
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3. NUMBER OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN INDIA
Type of Institutions
Total number
Schools ( primary, upper primary, secondary, higher secondary)
1.5 m
Universities (central, state, deemed, open..)
712
Colleges
36671
Stand Alone Institutions ( Diploma, PG Diploma)
11,445
Source: ww.mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/statistics/EAG2014.pdf

4. SKILLSET ISSUES AND UNEMPLOYMENT
Source: 4th Annual Employment – Unemployment Survey ( ), Labour Bureau

5. National Policy for Skill development – 400m to be trained by 2022
NATIONAL EMPLOYABILITY REPORT- 2016
Key findings
No significant improvement in employability in the last four years
Only 3.84% are employable for startup software engineering jobs
80% of engineering graduates are “unemployable”
Only 7% of India's B-school graduates employable
The report is based on a sample of more than 150,000 engineering students from 650+ engineering colleges across multiple Indian states. All these candidates graduated in 2015.
National Policy for Skill development – 400m to be trained by 2022
Source:
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6. TELECOM SECTOR IN INDIA
India is all set to become the fourth largest smartphone market by 2020 (GSMA)
180 million smartphones by 2019
contributing around 13.5 per cent to the global smartphone market,
BharatNet, the project to set up a broadband network in rural India
2,50,000 villages by 2019
700 million internet users of the 4.7 billion global users by 2025 (Microsoft report).
Favorable policies and 4G services
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7. SCOPE OF E-LEARNING IN INDIA
Failure of traditional education streams
Expected to face a shortage of 250 million skilled workers by 2022
half the population under 25 years of age,
The second largest market for eLearning after the United States (2015).
The sector is expected to reach $1.29 billion by 2018
internet users expected to touch 500 million by 2017
nearly 2/3rd is expected to be on mobile
Of course there is “digital-divide”
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8. GROWTH RATE OF ELEARNING SECTOR
7.9%
World
17.4%
India
Projected Compound Annual Growth Rate of eLearning Sector for 2018

9. GROWTH OF E-LEARNING MARKET IN INDIA
Compound Annual Growth Rate of 17.4% ( ).
Key drivers :
Government initiatives to promote E-Learning
Diffusion of technology
Shortage of quality education, and
Convenience and affordability factors
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10. INDIA’S SHARE IN MOOC REGISTRATIONS (WORLD WISE)

11. INITIATIVES BY INDIAN GOVERNMENT
10 e-learning R & D projects initiated during 12th plan period
National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology
e-contents for 34 modules including  O/A/B level, BCC/CCC, e-Gov, ESDM, CHM ‘O’ level etc.
Ministry of Human Resource Development
various web and video courses with virtual labs and elearning platforms viz. NPTL, E-Yantra etc.
University/HEI level initiatives
Source: & ww.mhrd.gov.in/e-contents

12. DIGITAL INDIA
Digital Indian Campaign (August 2014) was initiated by an initial investment of £13bn over the five years. The vision of the programme is to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.

13. DIGITAL INDIA INITIATIVES
National Mission in Education through ICT (NMEICT) is a centrally sponsored scheme to leverage ICT in teaching and learning process across all HEI’s of India.
Initiated in 2009
Aimed towards increasing Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Higher Education by 5%
pload_document/MissionDocument.pdf
Government of India has collaborated with HCL to launch SAKSHAT, the world’s most inexpensive tablet which will cater to digital needs of more than 500 million people of the nation.
The central government run Indira Gandhi Open University (IGNOU) has developed a learning platform that uses mobile phones to download course content.

14. MEILES STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES
Aligned to the strategies of Government’s e-learning initiatives
Strategic approach
Institutional strategies, skill development, employability
Strengthen the cooperation among Indian and EU universities
Best practices and Knowledge sharing – knowledge alliances
Framework for EU - India e-learning agenda

15. Thank You !