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

2. Open Learning, E-resources, Smart Boards, ITEL
The current scenario
About Institutions of Higher Education in India
27.5 million students (2% of population) enrolling every year
By 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

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

4. 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

5. The information Landscape

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

7. Popular MOOCs

8. National Initiatives - iNFRASTRUCTURE
National Knowledge Network
Edusat
N-List
National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT)
Shodhganga Project – INFLIBNET

9. 17-Sep-18
Dr. K. Meena, VC, BDU, Trichy

10. 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

11. NMEICT
17-Sep-18

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

13. Teaching and Learning Resources
Project Gutenberg:
First and largest single collection of free ebooks. (> than ).
The Online Book Page by University of Pennsylvania Library, e-books on different subjects.
MIT’s OpenCourseWare

14. MIT Open Course Ware (OCW)

15. OCW - Mathematics

16. Open Michigan Courses

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

18. More….. Resource Name URL
Saylor.org is a free and open collection of college level courses.
Global Textbook Project
The National Academies Press
Africa’s open content object repository
Resource Search

19. 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)

20. E-Journals (Open Access)
Directory of Open Access Journals
There are now 2514 journals in the directory. Currently 747 journals are searchable at article level. As of today articles are included in the DOAJ service.
California University’s Open Access Resources Portal:
DMOZ directory of open Access journals s/

21. E-Journals (Open Access)
The Electronic Journals Library 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:
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
Scholarly publications from IISc’s scientists and Researchers

22. Other Open Access Journals

23. E-Theses and Dissertations (ETD)
Shodhganga Project – INFLIBNET
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
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Poor global access to Indian research

24. Shodhganga Project

25. Shodhganga Project and BDU

26. ShodhGangotri A Repository of Indian Research in Progress (Abstracts)
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

27. Other Indian Repositories
Mahatma Gandhi University
Indian Institute of Science
Etheses - A Saurashtra University Library Service
Dyuthi, Digital Repository of Cochin University of Science and Technology
Vidyanidhi Digital Library (University of Mysore)

28. Global Repositories Poor local access to global research
Scholars’ Bank (University of Oregon) -
Emory University's Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository -
EThOS (The British Library) -
Pakistan Research Repository -
Poor local access to global research

29. Global Repositories – Contd.
DissOnline (GERMAN NATIONAL LIBRARY) -
SUDOC (SUDOC Catalogue) - France Universities -
DART - Europe (DART-Europe E-theses Portal) - search.php
DATAD (Association of African Universities) -

30. Thanx!
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