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Vidwan

Vidwan

Expert Database and National Researcher Network

vidwan

    VIDWAN is the premier database of profiles of scientists / researchers and other faculty members working at leading academic institutions and other R & D organisation involved in teaching and research in India. It provides important information about expert's background, contact address, experience, scholarly publications, skills and accomplishments, researcher identity, etc. The database developed and maintained by Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) with financial support from the National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT). The database would be instrumental in selection of panels of experts for various committees, taskforce, established by the Ministries / Govt. establishments for monitoring and evaluation purposes.

https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/

Objectives

• Quickly and conveniently provide information about expert to peers, prospective collaborators, funding agencies policy makers and research scholar in the country

• Identify peer reviewers for articles and research proposal

• Discover prospective collaborators for on-going research projects

• Establish communication directly with the experts who possess the expertise needed by users

• To create information exchanges and networking opportunities among scientists

Why Vidwan ?

Expert and Research Scholar

• Find potential scholars with similar expertise.

• Showcase your expertise to the research community, funding agencies, policy makers, etc.

• Linking to the other databases and external resources.

• Profile enriched via automatic update also integrate with ORCID, Researcher ID, Google Scholar ID, etc.

Institutions / Organisation

• Find experts in a given research area / geographic area.

• Improve faculty collaboration across organisations in India and abroad.

• Identify institutional strength in a given subject area.

• Visualizations of co-author network, map of science network.

Policy Makers and Funding Agencies

• Identify experts for committees, expert panels and project proposals.

• Identify funding opportunities and associated experts.

• Identify areas of intensive research activities.

• Visualise research activities within an organisation.

  

NPTEL

    National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is a project of MHRD initiated by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Guwahati and Roorkee) along with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2003, to provide quality education to anyone interested in learning from the IITs. The main goal was to create web and video courses in all major branches of engineering and physical sciences at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and management courses at the postgraduate level.

Highlights

• Largest online repository in the world of courses in engineering, basic sciences, and selected humanities and social sciences subjects

• Online web portal http://nptel.ac.in

• Youtube channel for NPTEL

• More than 54000+ hours of video content, transcribed with subtitles

• Most accessed library of peer-reviewed educational content in the world.

NPTEL Online Certification Courses

    Since 2013, through an online portal, 4-, 8-, or 12-week online courses, typically on topics relevant to students in all years of higher education along with basic core courses in sciences and humanities with exposure to relevant tools and technologies, are being offered. The enrolment to and learning from these courses involves no cost.

Swayam - NPTEL

https://swayam.gov.in/nc_details/NPTEL 

SWAYAM

SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.  

This is done through a platform that facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms from Class 9 till post-graduation to be accessed by anyone, anywhere at any time. All the courses are interactive, prepared by the best teachers in the country and are available, free of cost to any learner. More than 1,000 specially chosen faculty and teachers from across the country have participated in preparing these courses.

The courses hosted on SWAYAM are in 4 quadrants –

1.  video lecture,
2.  specially prepared reading material that can be downloaded/printed
3. self-assessment tests through tests and quizzes and
4.  an online discussion forum for clearing the doubts. Steps have been taken to enrich the learning experience by using audio-video and multi-media and state of the art pedagogy / technology.

In order to ensure that best quality content is produced and delivered, nine National Coordinators have been appointed. They are:

1.   AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) for self-paced and international courses
2.   NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) for Engineering
3.   UGC (University Grants Commission) for non technical post-graduation education
4.   CEC (Consortium for Educational Communication) for under-graduate education
5.   NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) for school education
6.   NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) for school education
7.   IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) for out-of-school students
8.   IIMB (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) for management studies
9.  NITTTR (National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research) for Teacher Training programme

Courses delivered through SWAYAM are available free of cost to the learners, however learners wanting a SWAYAM certificate should register for the final proctored exams that come at a fee and attend in-person at designated centres on specified dates. Eligibility for the certificate will be announced on the course page and learners will get certificates only if this criteria is matched. Universities/colleges approving credit transfer for these courses can use the marks/certificate obtained in these courses for the same.

https://swayam.gov.in/

Vidya-mitra

       

  The INFLIBNET Centre has developed a web-based interface called "Vidya-mitra: Integrated e-Content Portal" for all e-content projects, developed / funded under the National Mission of Education through ICT. There are more than 50 projects on e-content under NME-ICT which are developed / being developed in various subject disciplines (science, arts, engineering, social science, etc) through various Indian institutes / universities / colleges. 

http://vidyamitra.inflibnet.ac.in/

N-LIST

N-LIST stands for "National Library and Information services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content". The Project entitled "National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)", was jointly executed by the e-ShodhSindhu Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, IIT Delhi provides for i) cross-subscription to e-resources subscribed by the two Consortia, i.e. subscription to INDEST-AICTE resources for universities and e-ShodhSindhu resources for technical institutions; and ii) access to selected e-resources to colleges. The N-LIST project provides access to e-resources to students, researchers and faculty from colleges and other beneficiary institutions through server(s) installed at the INFLIBNET Centre. The authorized users from colleges can now access e-resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher's website once they are duly authenticated as authorized users through servers deployed at the INFLIBNET Centre.  

https://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/

National Digital Library of India

      NDL India is a digital repository containing textbooks, articles, videos, audio books, lectures, simulations, fiction and all other kinds of learning media. The NDLI provides free of cost access to many books in English and the Indian languages. 

    Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) has initiated the National Digital Library of India (NDL India) pilot project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility. Filtered and federated searching is employed to facilitate focused searching so that learners can find out the right resource with least effort and in minimum time. NDL India is designed to hold content of any language and provides interface support for leading Indian languages. It is being arranged to provide support for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular form of access devices and differently-abled learners. It is being developed to help students to prepare for entrance and competitive examination, to enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from multiple sources. The pilot project is devising a framework that is being scaled up with respect to content volume and diversity to serve all levels and disciplines of learners. It is being developed at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Features
• A single window search facility to ever-growing digital content repository
• Different ways to browse content repository: Browse by content type, Browse by source, Browse by subject and Browse by learning resource type
• Filtering result of search and browse with facet based refinement options
• Contents relevant for different levels of users
• Contents available for different subject domains: Technology, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Science etc.
• App and content may be accessed in three different languages: English, Hindi and Bengali





https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/

 
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